Welcome back.
Good luck with the sale.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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From: <[email protected]>
Subject: I'm bacccckkkkkk!!!
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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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
we
created them. Albert Einstein
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