On Mon 21 Apr 2008 05:36:08a, Nancy Young told us...

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> "jmcquown" > wrote
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>> shades. But I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for someone elses
>> "upgrades". I'd rather see an empty house and figure out what I can do
>> with it given what I have and what I like. I'm not buying their
>> furniture so why do I care how great it looks?
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> That's how you think, that's how I think, but I've figured out that
> lots of people really are turned off by the furniture! Hello, it's not
> staying with the house! It's bizarre. Oh, I don't like this paint
> color, yuck. Uh, don't you want to put your own nice fresh paint up
> anyway? Apparently this does not occur to a lot of the house
> buying public. Oh, these ugly curtains! What's wrong with you?
>
> I never would have bought this place with the pumpkin orange
> bedrooms if I thought like that.
>
> nancy

That seems to be what one typically finds, and part of buying a previously
owned home is often personalizing it or fixing the previous owners
mistakes, poor judgement, or problems.

One house be bought back in Ohio was just the opposite, however.
Wallcoverings are very popular there, and every room except the kitchen had
absolutely beautiful wallcoverings that were within our range of taste, as
was the carpeting. Most of the carpeting had been replaced within the past
year or so, was great quality, and in incredible condition. This was also
true of the window treatments. Beautiful and acceptable. The only things
we did before we moved in was have the kitchen repapered and install
coordinating fabric vertical blinds (the only real solution) on the patio
door that lead from the kitchen to one of the patios.

Six years later when we sold the house to move to AZ, the buyers loved it,
too, and never changed a thing, and still haven't 'til this day.

This was the greatest exception I've ever seen in pre-owned homes.



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