The Reason Foreclosures Don’t Sell

Here’s a foreclosure I toured today with Sandra the Long-Suffering (who earned her title putting up with the mister and mrs. with nary a scowl.) This 4 bedroom/2 and a half bath/2 car garage brick is only 2 years old.

Not too bad… so why has this little gem sat unloved so very long?

Could it be the tacky wallpaper borders strewn about with such enthusiasm? Nah… they’re just stapled in place, not glued.

The kitchen *is* a bit small for a 2200 sq. ft. home.

Could it be the spacious backyard? Perhaps buyers dislike mowing with great intensity…

Or the plain, vanilla house-rear?

Wait… what’s this? Perchance a clue? How on earth does one get a hole in the siding with lovely duct tape trimmings?

Yeah… here we go. This just might scare off potential buyers for months on end…

This home needs the usual– new flooring, paint, appliances, some minor sheetrock repair, plus the fix to the hole outside and a broken kitchen cabinet door. The floorplan is good, the price is right and the school district is the one most favored in our area. There doesn’t appear  to be any signs of current bee activity and, best guess, that hole was punched in the siding to fumigate the insects… but I’m seriously stumped as to why the bank doesn’t pay someone to clean up dead bees?

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