My former residence is on the market

Don M. said:
This looks like an excellent renovation. However, it looks like the present owner has moved furniture and personal possessions in, and haven't lived there long. The question I would have is Why are they trying to sell it so quickly?? Have they discovered even more problems, perhaps structurally, that would require even more expensive work, and make their current investment of little value?
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On renovation shows they call it "staging."
 
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Don M. said:
This looks like an excellent renovation. However, it looks like the present owner has moved furniture and personal possessions in, and haven't lived there long. The question I would have is Why are they trying to sell it so quickly?? Have they discovered even more problems, perhaps structurally, that would require even more expensive work, and make their current investment of little value?
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It’s probably staged
 
It sure is pretty. I think they went a little overboard with the pictures of the kitchen - why did they include a picture of the knobs on the stove? LOL
I wish I could see pictures of the insides of houses I've lived in, that is pretty cool.
 
Jules said:
It’s too bad they didn’t fix the wet basement. No one is going want to buy a house with those problems.
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Especially at that price. I assume they spent the most effort into renovating the interior.
They painted the trim, put on a new roof and made the backyard into a patio, but that's about the extent of the outside work.
When I went there at one open house, beside the dank cellar, they hadn't pointed up the crumbling bricks on the north side or attempted to fill in the woodpecker holes in some of the trim.
 
Nobody is going to buy without an inspection. There’s no way that basement will pass. In the months when people were buying without even seeing the property, this would have sold (to a sucker).
 
debodun said:
To repair the damp caller, they probably would have had to dig up the foundation. I've hear that can run into some $$$$. They'd then have to ask $1M for it.
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I've known plenty of people in the Northeast who've had cellars with seepage issues. They use sump pumps, dehumidifiers and other fixes when problems arise, and don't have anything on their basement floors that might be damaged by the dampness or a few inches of water.

The sellers are likely guessing some potential buyers will likewise find a damp cellar to not be a deal breaker. After all, your parents bought this house with cellar dampness issues and you yourself lived with this wet cellar for many decades without being overly concerned about it, Deb.
 
StarSong said:
The sellers are likely guessing some potential buyers will likewise find a damp cellar to not be a deal breaker. After all, your parents bought this house with cellar dampness issues and you yourself lived with this wet cellar for many decades without being overly concerned about it, Deb.
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It wasn't damp until the house on the south side (on the left when looking at the front) was sold and the new owner built an extension and routed all the rain gutter drainage ducts in between out houses.
 
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