Welcome baaaaacccckkkkkk!
Great to see your name here again.
Paul
On Aug 4, 2009, at 8:36 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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 :-)
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