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Old 01-31-2012, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Bigben007 View Post
How do you know where the "breaking" point is? I plan on getting all new appliances, the whole house has been re=painted, even the basement white-washed, bought some new (IKEA) furniture for staging, but would some of this not have matter? Is some not necessary? How do you know?
You don't know.. Times have never been so hard to sell a house in my memory.

We were doing all this and had a neighbor who said we are going to sell our house and we aren't planning to take down wall paper and do any improvements or updating.. and we plan to just reduce the price.

Well that doesn't cut it in today's market.

Another thing we did in our 20 year old house is replaced every light fixture.

You have to do what you have to do.

It is very hard to know what will be the switch that turns on the buyers.

I know that we really cannot "see" our own homes.
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