Make the Right First Impression with Prospective Buyers

Would you buy a property if you had to hack your way through over grown vines, nettles and weeds just to get to the front door and then wait around for 20 minutes while the agent struggled with a rusty old lock, before being thrust into a room full of cobwebs, spiders, other horrid creepy crawlies and jars of undistinguishable matter and empty beer and vodka bottles?

It would certainly leave an impression on you, but the right impression? Yet many people are still trying to sell an old abandoned Bulgarian village house that has not had the garden touched in years and is in the same state it was when the old inhabitants left years ago – leaving their old clothes strewn around, their last half empty beer bottle on the table and several empties strewn around.

As the old saying goes, first impressions are everything and if your prospective buyer remembers coming away from your property with hundreds of nettle stings, bramble cuts and covered in cobwebs, they are unlikely to be focusing on the lovely character of your house, the fantastic old fire place, the massive plot with the terrace shaded by vines and so on.

If you were looking to buy a rural Bulgarian village house, would you want to try and make your way through this to get tothe front door? Or would you prefer to see a garden tidied up as on the right?

In order to be able to gain a proper impression of the overall size of the plot of land with the Bulgarian property, the plot should be cleared, with all long grass strimmed, trees chopped back, vines tidied up, rubbish removed (or at least piled in one place so there are not glass bottles and old jars and cans lying around everywhere). And if boundary walls have fallen down, it would be an idea to have these repaired in some fashion so that at least the boundary looks fairly secure and the neighbours goats are not likely to be found squatting in the house.

It often takes a fair amount of imagination and vision to see a Bulgarian property in its finished, renovated state in the mind of the prospective buyer. So help them a long a little by removing all the old rubbish from the house, take out old furniture that is of no use and can’t be restored, sweep up dust and dirt, maybe fill in some of the little cracks in the plaster and you might even want to give the place a quick coat of paint. Its amazing how much difference it makes if the property is clean and tidy, the window frames are sanded down and given a quick coat of gloss, the walls are clean, the floors swept.

If any of the windows are cracked or have broken panes, cover them in plastic and tape them up to prevent the cracks getting worse and more importantly, to stop birds making nests in the living room, leaving droppings everywhere and generally making a mess.

A tidy garden and clean and bright house will be more likely to sell than one with an overgrown garden and a messy, insect ridden property.

If you would like your garden tidying and your house cleaning, please contact me about our services. Bulgarian rates and all equipment supplied.

From this over grown mass of weeds and nettles to this ->

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