Heh. Well, the condo is finally listed. I've spent the last three months (since it was re-painted and re-carpeted -- it's been about six months since the final remodels on the kitchen and bathrooms) dealing with one niggling detail after another: packing up more to go into storage for staging, buying some colorful accents for staging, painting spots that the painters seemed to miss (couple of baseboards in bathrooms, two heating vents), painting spots that weren't done well, polishing up some brass door pulls, polishing all the older chrome remaining in the bathrooms, replacing the screens, adding plants and rock outside, hanging a new chandelier, fixing/repairing numerous things...
Just when I would think it was all done, I'd find something else (like poor caulking around the shower). This is a somewhat up-scale senior community (that I am moving out of), so I know a lot of the buyers will be fussy, older and fussy (the two often go together). So I aimed for eliminating a lot of visible small flaws. The hardest thing was getting the turkey poop stains out of the concrete on the patio (Clorox gel pen, took three tries each spot. Brush off with dry nylon brush, then use soap and water to remove the white spot from the bleach. That stuff had really penetrated the concrete, as bad as rust stains. BTW, direct your handyman/remodel how-to questions to me off list. I have become a mini-expert. Heh.) Well, the list is endless and rather nauseating. Looks sharp, and I never ever ever want to be this intimate with a condo/apartment/house again. I know where every little scratch is, every too big bump in the textured walls are (not really, but it seems like it) -- where every little flaw is (or was, with a lot of them :-)). If the housing market weren't so tight, I probably wouldn't have done quite as much. But it looks sharp and everyone thinks it looks sharp and it will probably sell. And that was the point. (This is a specialized market so it's a little different than other markets.) Anyway, I am back. It will be a relief to think about photography instead of houses again. So throw those photos at me -- I wanna see some pretty pictures. Marnie aka Doe :-) --------------------------------------------- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222846709x1201493018/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=115&bcd =JulystepsfooterNO115) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
