Holiday Slowdown & the Domino Effect
It may not take a village to get a home prepped for market, but there can be a lot of people — and contractors — involved.
You don’t realize how many until one or more are missing.
“Not Quite There” — x 1,000(?)
So, one home I’m about to list is delayed because the home cleaner isn’t available until after the 1st, which pushes back photography and virtual staging (using software to show how a vacant home would look with furniture and accents like wall art).
Another home owner has been trying, unsuccessfully so far, to line up painters.
A third is working his way through a list of “repair or replace” items from the city inspection in early December.
You get the idea.
Multiply my experience by a few thousand Twin Cities Realtors, and you get lots of homes just about ready to go on the market — but not quite there.
P.S.: Notice how “30-below windchill” wasn’t one of the delaying factors; this is Minnesota, after all. 🙂
