If You Can’t Get Them In The House, You Can’t SELL The House
It is amazing how people can throw together a green couch and a yellow pillow and call it interior designing. I can’t match my clothes, let alone trying to make a house match. What a waste of time. If people would spend as much time on marketing their homes as they do on making it look pretty, they would have a better chance of selling them.
Look at it this way. If you had the nicest looking home in the neighborhood (on the inside) but no one knows about it, what are you accomplishing? It is nice to be good with designing things and making things look pretty. To be honest though, if you can’t get them in the door, your not going to sell that pretty house.
Take feng-shui for example — this is an ancient Chinese art and science developed over 3,000 years ago which involves proper alignment and position of all matter and objects, namely furniture. This is real popular in major metropolitan cities and is just one form of interior design used by some homeowners. If I walked into a house that had good feng-shui, I wouldn’t know it – I would however notice if the couch is facing the wall instead toward a TV or window.
No matter what you do to make the inside of a house attractive, and I am not saying it is not important to have a clean and tidy home to show, you have to make sure you market the house enough to draw in the customers. If you can’t get them in there, what good is it in having a green couch with yellow pillows to show off.
Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Chris Moran
Comment by Chris Moran — August 8, 2008 @ 10:53 pm
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Comment by riathareja — August 11, 2008 @ 4:26 am