Real Estate Bits and Pieces
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Cheverly, Maryland
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Posted at Real Estate Bits and Pieces by Susan Pruden
Friday, May 25, 2007
Categorized in: Home Improvements
There is nothing worse when showing a house and you can't get the door open. The buyers are at peak anticipation (unless it looks like a dump from the outside, which is a whole other issue). I open the lockbox. Take out the keys. Figure out which key goes in which lock.
And I can't get the door open. I fiddle with the key -- you know, that little wiggle that you give it in the lock. Nothing.
I pull the door towards me while I turn the key in the lock. Nothing.
I try other keys. I try my car keys. Nothing.
The BUYER tries the keys. No dice. (Though in the interests of full disclosure, I am key-challenged. Sometimes the buyer is successful when I'm not. It's HARD to smoothly open a door while everyone is staring!)
Then, to cap it off, the agent/owner/tenant or whoever say, "oh yeah, the door sticks. You just have to kick it/push it/lift up/fill in your own solution."
Sellers! Agents! If you do nothing else, make it easy to open the door!
Fix that first!
Before it goes on the market!
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I mean this literally. I - can't - get - in - the - door.
1. re: Getting In the Door