"The Cute Little Roosters That Sold A Home"

There are some beautifully decorated homes on the market. These homes look amazing and give you an immediate feeling of calm and invitingness. Don't be fooled!

Let me tell you a little story about Brian and Jen.

Brian and Jen had champagne tastes and a beer pocketbook. Jen loved her Tiffany silver bracelet, big dangly earnings and Kate Spade purse. (It was fake.)

Brian was a sculpture. He wore a suit every day that put Old Blue Eyes to shame. I think Jen dressed him, but I digress.

They loved the finer things and boy did they ever look great in them. Just one problem. Just one huge problem. One problem so big they couldn't "see the forest because all the trees were in the way."

It wasn't that they couldn't afford it. They could. It was that they went into every house with blinders on.

They never saw a house. All they saw was the home that had been presented to them. The home the current owners wanted them to see.

They saw the pottery barn furniture, the country curtains with the cute little roosters, the chenille rugs that matched the picture frames with the two perfect kids exactly.

They couldn't get past it.

They never saw the house with their furniture and their yorkie "Mercede" running around. They couldn't use their minds eye to sit at their kitchen table and play a game of Monopoly.

Turns out they didn't really want that house, they wanted the furniture. They wanted the decorations and lifestyle that the house implied.

They bought that house. Too bad it came with the biggest case of "buyers remorse" you will ever see. When they crossed the threshold into their new home there was nothing left but a ceiling fan. The house was a blank canvas. And they hated it.

The moral: When you look at a house turn a blind all to the decorating. Houses today are often "staged" to be super appealing to buyers. Remember that you are not buying a painting but a blank canvas and you supply the paint.

Happy House Hunting,

Connecticut Realtor©