I think it's crap. What do you think?
Friday, July 25, 2008
Designed to Sell? or Designed to Manipulate?
So my wife Linz loves to watch shows like: Designed to Sell and Flip This House etc. etc. Sometime I end up watching. The crazy thing is that these "teams" of people come in and tell you what people are looking for when they are looking at buying a house. Then they attempt to come up with a plan in order to make the "important" things that people look at the most really appealing by very very cheaply dressing things up. Of course with the magic of T.V. they always never spend over their budget and of course they don't ever factor in the cost of labor. Some times they do things that are cool, but most of the time it's all cheap little "cover-ups".
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I think people are gonna buy the house if they want to buy the house regardless of what you do to it. As long as the house isn't in disrepair and there's not standing water in the bedrooms, people are usually looking for something specific in a floor plan and all the the rest is window-dressing. Which is basically what those shows are doing anyway - dressing it up. It would be nice for all houses one might buy to be perfectly suited to particular tastes but it isn't rocket science to slap a coat of paint on the wall. My vote: manipulation. But it's fun to watch.
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