My neighbors are selling their house

[SpatiallyAware]

I would like to see pics of this atrocity before I lay final judgment.

 

[nanette1985]

What are they asking for the place?

 

[PhineasJWhoopee]

You're beginning to sound a bit anal retentive about picking up leaves. If it's fall & the leaves are falling from the trees, it doesn't even look natural to have a perfectly manicured lawn devoid of leaves. And personally, I think that anyone who would consciously believe that leaves on the ground makes a house worth less (by more than the $20 it would take to have a kid rake them) is retarded.

I mean, when I looked at the house that I now live in, it had snowed the night before. The sidewalk hadn't been touched - no one had walked on it, no one had shoveled it. I didn't think to myself. "omg, it snowed and there's snow still on the sidewalk. I like this house less now because of that." That line of thought is patently absurd. Of course, maybe it's just that I'm more of a rational thinker that things like that don't effect me at all.

If I was anal retentative, I'd pick every last one up. That's my wife, not me.😱

We sold our house about a year ago, it had some negatives (busy street, 1 car garage), but it was impreccable inside and out and it was very nicely decorated. We sold it quickly and got pretty close to our asking price.

I drove by the house recently and the yard was a mess. The new owner probably had no clue how much work it took to maintain.

I'm guessing that if she tried to sell now, she would be looking at a 10 - 20% loss due to running the place down.

Don't underestimate curb appeal and aesthetics.

I half joked to my wife that she should go into business staging homes.

 

[PhineasJWhoopee]

What are they asking for the place?

Take a guess.

 

[PhineasJWhoopee]

I would like to see pics of this atrocity before I lay final judgment.

"Atrocity" is too strong a word, but it looks unkempt. Not the look you are going for when you're trying to sell a house.

 

[IronWing]

What's a lawn?

 

[lxskllr]

There's a couple rules I live by in life...

There's no such thing as a perfect measurement
You can't fight nature

Raking leaves violates one of them.

 

[Ichinisan]

Have you requested they only sell to Christians yet? If not your new neighbors just might be Atheist, or worse, Muslim! 😱

If he wants to bring others into his faith, he would hope for non-Christian neighbors to move in.

 

[JulesMaximus]

And a cookie for educators who have no common sense (which is the case in this situation).

I are has good educashun.

 

[alevasseur14]

Let's completely derail this thread too by talking about why they are selling the house to begin with...

THEY WENT ON A VACATION?!? LOLphineas.