Here’s a question dear to Cathy’s heart:<\/p>\n
I’m selling my house and have pets so I don’t want to put my house on a lock box. All the realtors I’ve talked to say I have to put my house on a lock box, and the one who I wanted to give the job to actually turned me down if I don’t put it on a lock box. She said she can’t sell it if I don’t. Is that true?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Good thing you didn’t call me: I would have insisted on a lock-box, you bet. But beyond that, I would want two more things:<\/p>\n
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- I would want the pets out of the house entirely<\/li>\n
- I would want their odors completely eliminated<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Pets are a wonderful thing. Because I love my wife, and because she loves every living thing, we have four dogs and nine cats right now. How do we sell our houses? We move first, then remodel the house we’re leaving prior to selling it. The carpets go, and everything gets repainted. Plus we pet-proof our new house before moving in.<\/p>\n
Does that sound like an extreme expense? This is the burden you took on when first you admitted a large, furry, affectionate creature into your life. (Note that in real estate, pets that can’t escape their habitat and don’t make odors don’t matter.)<\/p>\n
I have been in pet-occupied homes where I could not smell the animal. But I have been in far more where I can smell the pets from outside, even from the street.<\/p>\n
Odor is a powerful subconscious influence on the human mind. Even people who like<\/i> pets won’t like the smell of your<\/i> pets.<\/p>\n
So: Lock-box, yes, but not before the pets are out of the house and all of their odors eliminated. If you want your house to sell, you have to present it in the way the buyer wants to buy it. If you don’t, buyers will go elsewhere…
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