Post by TheTravelBug on Apr 22, 2010 10:20:49 GMT
Would you buy a property if you had to hack your way through over grown vines, nettles and weeds just to get to the front door and then wait around for 20 minutes while the agent struggled with a rusty old lock, before being thrust into a room full of cobwebs, spiders, other horrid creepy crawlies and jars of undistinguishable matter and empty beer and vodka bottles?
It would certainly leave an impression on you, but the right impression? Yet many people are still trying to sell an old abandoned Bulgarian village house that has not had the garden touched in years and is in the same state it was when the old inhabitants left years ago – leaving their old clothes strewn around, their last half empty beer bottle on the table and several empties strewn around.
As the old saying goes, first impressions are everything and if your prospective buyer remembers coming away from your property with hundreds of nettle stings, bramble cuts and covered in cobwebs, they are unlikely to be focusing on the lovely character of your house, the fantastic old fire place, the massive plot with the terrace shaded by vines and so on...
For the full articles please visit www.thetravelbug.org/blog or if you would like to discuss having your house tidied and plot cleared over the summer let me know.
It would certainly leave an impression on you, but the right impression? Yet many people are still trying to sell an old abandoned Bulgarian village house that has not had the garden touched in years and is in the same state it was when the old inhabitants left years ago – leaving their old clothes strewn around, their last half empty beer bottle on the table and several empties strewn around.
As the old saying goes, first impressions are everything and if your prospective buyer remembers coming away from your property with hundreds of nettle stings, bramble cuts and covered in cobwebs, they are unlikely to be focusing on the lovely character of your house, the fantastic old fire place, the massive plot with the terrace shaded by vines and so on...
For the full articles please visit www.thetravelbug.org/blog or if you would like to discuss having your house tidied and plot cleared over the summer let me know.