Anyone on here work in real estate? Could use some advice please!

[Arimeh]

Toomanyshoes - well its listed on the internet, we took the pics ourselves, but they turned out ok. Its advertised as a family home - its a 3 bedroom unit, but its got heaps of storage and we all fit in here just fine (with cupboards to spare!) but most of the people in the other units up the front are older people that have retired, and it was an older couple that were most interested in it. Price is at the right level in comparison to those listed in the area.

Misty - We can't afford to rent it out while its on the market. When we move to Queensland, DH will be on Austudy, and I'll be on whatever government benefits I can get because I will still have 3 kids at home (only DS will be of school age - 5 years). We won't get our full benefits if we have an investment property, and we wouldn't get enough rent for this place to cover the mortgage, meaning we'd have to cover the rest of the mortgage AND pay rent in queensland AND living expenses - on hardly any income. Its just not possible - we have no choice - we HAVE to sell.

[Phteven]

If it's been on the market for a while it's probably gone a bit 'stale'.
You could try taking it off the market for 3 weeks or so, styling it a bit, dropping the price and re-listing.

[Arimeh]

If it's been on the market for a while it's probably gone a bit 'stale'.
You could try taking it off the market for 3 weeks or so, styling it a bit, dropping the price and re-listing.

We did consider doing that, however, we can't afford to pay for the advertising that the real estate has charged us for so far - we were planning on paying it when we sell. But we don't have the extra cash lying around (we're on one income obviously) so this isn't really a solution either - but we did consider it. Until we thought of the fees.. LOL

[Little Chicken]

Now I'm not saying your place is out of date or anything, but you can be amazed the difference 'dressing' a place for sale can make. De-cluttering, fixing paint chips and dings etc. My SIL spent $1500 completely repainting, putting half her stuff in storage, updating light fixtures etc, and got an extra $20000 on the sale price. There are heaps of books and dvds out there about how to dress a place for sale.

[Arimeh]

Now I'm not saying your place is out of date or anything, but you can be amazed the difference 'dressing' a place for sale can make. De-cluttering, fixing paint chips and dings etc. My SIL spent $1500 completely repainting, putting half her stuff in storage, updating light fixtures etc, and got an extra $20000 on the sale price. There are heaps of books and dvds out there about how to dress a place for sale.

Yup we did that when we sold our place in queensland, however this unit is only a year old, so it has nothing to fix and all fixtures are modern etc.

[kawazuki]

can you ask your agent to "hold" your sale, so stop advertising take it out of the window etc for a few weeks.
so you wont be doing a new advertising when you go back on.
your just HOLDING the advertising for a few weeks.
get it out make people think its sold, then put it back on with a new price etc...
we are looking at doing that with ours has been on the market since november we are the best house in worst street tho