Pool table in living room and selling house
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Comments (17)I had to sell a house in NJ with a pool that had not been opened in years. I contacted a pool demo company and got an estimate it was close to eleven thousand dollars. There are EPA, state and local laws about filling in a pool. Be sure to do your homework. The concrete fill had to be a certain size etc. Rebar needed to be recycled for a certain fee. Yikes. The prospective buyers had a pool inspector examine the pool. I gave that report to a pool repair company. They said the repairs could run near two thousand dollars. I gave my estimates to the buyer and I offered to take off eleven thousand from the asking price. The buyer accepted and I no longer had the worry of what else they would find underground. I did not have to worry about having a truck with tons of concrete driving near my house's foundation and potentially cracking it. The heavy equipment and dumpsters can crack driveways too....See MoreSelling a home with no room for a dishwasher
Comments (15)I think it depends on where you live, where your house is in the price point, and how many houses are on the market. I'm assuming your house would probably appeal to a first time home owner and a handful of other people. It would be a dealbreaker for most. Depending on your layout, I would be tempted to remove some cabinets and add a dishwasher. You could possibly put a pantry or nice cabinets in the dining room for additional storage. Financially, this may not be feasible....See MoreShould all rooms be the same color when selling a house?
Comments (15)my mother has sold several abodes, an agent once told her that if should always be white. she has held with that and sold them over asking in record time. it always makes a home see spotless and seems to be the perfect medium for people to project their thoughts of their home on. What was said about matching paint to floors etc, makes sense on the face of it, but having been here awhile, it seems that seems to differ. so if someone despises gray etc. they may have a difficult time. There is one caveat to this. i decorated an old flesh pink and magenta bathroom. The only room my mom ever kept. it got rave reviews from all who saw it. if you have had lots of raves about a room and it was not just the paint color or your family, you may wish to keep it. I think that fresh coat of paint truly is the least expensive way to upgrade your home for sale....See MoreDD has a squatter living in his house, and he's selling the house
Comments (31)Thanks for asking. Update: My Dad bought his cute new townhouse to downsize into. Over the next 6 weeks, we helped my Dad completely purge and prepare his house (selling, donating, and moving things to his new house), handle some repairs, carpet cleaning, painting, etc to get it ready to go on the market. The house was outdated early 90's style, but in good repair bc he always fixed things as he went along. There was almost no deferred maintenance; but still a list of things we needed to do to get it ready. We didn't touch her room, but the entire rest of the house was emptying out quickly. The first week of this 6-week process, I printed out the eviction paperwork from the local justice court and brought it over to show the squatter. I explained what was going to happen, the judgement, the sheriff coming, etc. We kept on going with the purging, cleaning, etc. We all live locally, so all the siblings and spouses (8 adults) were stopping by all the time to help, and to reinforce the "move out" message to the squatter. SIL was an especially effective communicator, and squatter finally agreed to move out by Friday of the second week. And she did! We never had to file the eviction papers, but printing them out and showing her what was going to happen made her see that this train was on the move. I told my Dad to change the locks, but it turns out he had never given her a key, just a garage door opener, which he took back, so that was good. Along the way, we did find out some sketchy stuff about her; she has squatted and scammed others before. She tried, but was never able to find out my Dad's new address, my address, or any of my other siblings last names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, etc. She sure tried though! One day I brought a meal over for my Dad and she asked me to email the recipe to her. Another time, she offered to drop something by my sister's house, just give me your address. Those are just 2 examples of many where she tried to get personal info on us. It's pretty easy to get that kind of info online, but she doesn't have a computer, and doesn't seem sharp enough to do that kind of research. With the FIRST showing, my Dad got a full-price offer, and he just closed a couple of weeks ago. I have another thread about all this stupid stuff the realtor told him to do to the house (over $100K worth of updates; so dumb). With moving costs, repairs, cleaning, painting, hiring handy a person to help haul things to charity and dump, minor landscape spruce-up, etc he spent less than $7K vs $100K realtor wanted him to do to make her job easier! Anyway, it's finally over and my Dad is happily settled in his new place. He's on vacation right now, and we are having a big house-warming party for him when he gets back....See Moreapple_pie_order
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