Making Your Home For Sale Memorable
July 8, 2008
Post Tags: lady-in-tub , mannequin , memorable-home , memorable_moment
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I’ve written before about different ways to make your home standout from the rest on the market. From having chocolate available for potential buyers to making sure you leave the air conditioning on so the house isn’t a sweat lodge and asthma attack waiting to happen.
This past weekend we were in a town home that was memorable for a different reason. The buyers headed up the stairs and both husband and wife let out a gasp when they turned to corner into the master bath. They thought they had actually walked in on the seller in the tub. They backed out of the room then realized what they had seen and gasps turned to nervous laughs.
When we walked in we knew there was something startling in there but not what, a big bug, a scorpion in the tub, no a gold mannequin with her hair up in rollers in the tub. Not even a whole mannequin, just the upper half sitting there in the tub.
I’m glad we didn’t go there late in the day when the sun was setting. Imagine flipping on the light and finding the lady of the house soaking in the tub.
Today the listing agent called for feedback and was told the mannequin in the tub almost gave the clients a heart attack. The agent related someone else let out a blood curdling scream when they walked in on the “lady in the tub”
This is not what we mean by making your house memorable. Being the cause of a heart attack, someone fainting or a call to 911 for an ambulance to restart someones heart is not the kind of memorable moment you want to create.
Stick to chocolate and keeping the AC on.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I agree it’s not a good idea to startle buyers. But thanks for the laugh.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Margie,
You are welcome, I have to share this stuff. Much of it is really too funny. Either that or my sense of humor is bent (okay, it is bent . . .)