Nothing will drive home how badly your house is in disrepair quite like trying to sell it. All of the little things that you have trained yourself to overlook, from the replacement tile that isn’t exactly the same color to the gap between your baseboards and floor, come once again to the forefront of your conciousness, helped along by your real estate agent or contractor.
With all of your carefully placed furniture no longer camouflaging various imperfections, and with the listing of your house imminent, everything begins to take on a monumental quality, and you become convinced that without brand new window screens no one will ever buy your house. In fact, they will all gasp with horror when they see it, and letters will appear in your local paper calling for the demolition of your eyesore of a house.
Of course, none of it is really all that bad - nothing a carpenter and a painter cannot repair and make new, but in your nervous, frenzied state, it really does feel like the end of the world.
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Isn’t that the truth. Whenever I’m tempted to put off repairing something here at our house I remind myself that if we move I’ll just be kicking myself later. That said, you can say ‘no’ to repairing things a buyer asks to have repaired.