I have a listing coming up in Cameron Park soon, so I went around to preview the competition and came away thinking, This is perfect! Of the four homes in a five mile radius around the listing coming up, three are non-competition. I only saw one as a real threat.

Let me explain. These are approximately 2000 square foot homes on pretty decent sized lots, but some of them are dark and dingy, some of them still have nails on the wall, some are not freshly painted and others are cluttered. All in all, only one of them was ready to be showed. And the price tag on the homes? Almost a half million dollars!

I know we’re spoilt here in California. There are million dollar fixer-uppers on the market still. But if you want someone to plunk down quite a bit of cash to buy your house, at least give it a fresh coat of paint.

Or drop the price and market it as a cosmetic fixer.

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