Would you sell short to buy a nicer house at a better value?

• Steel Valley Football

  password;1077925 wrote:Curb appeal is only one persons opinion. Taking pride in your property is more important to people than curb appeal. You can plant all the trees and flowers you want around your house but if it is not well maintained on the exterior of the home, it is still a dump.

  "Taking pride in ownership" is simply another marketing fluff phrase. It's so general that it's almost meaningless.
  
  CA doesn't care what people think about his property. So, would he look foolish saying he has no concern with pride of ownership? Yes, he would. It's the exact same thing.
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1079577 wrote:The main point has always been that it's a silly and nonsensical thing to say. By saying such a thing, you appear foolishly unable to get past the words themselves. My point is proven by your similar stance on your house showing well. Even sillier is the fact that you are so adamant about it and even, for some odd reason, act proud of your claim. ...

  I have no problem conceding that that may very well be your point however it ha never been mine.
  
  Mine is different. My point is that I do not care about curb appeal. This point you acknowledged earlier and for that I am appreciative.
  
  
  

  Steel Valley Football;1079577 wrote:...
  
  Now, if you want to say your house is atypical or was built for the non-conventional buyer then thats another thing altogether, but you cant get past (or wont comprehend) the fact that these phrases are fluff terms to get buyers to look at certain listings rather than others. That doesn't involve you. At all. They will never see your house. Ever. That makes it a really odd thing to say. Period.

  I don't know if my house is "atypical" or not. I'll leave that for you to discern. My house certainly wasn't built for a "non-conventional buyer". It wasn't built for a buyer at all.
  
  I don't have any issue with those phrases being fluff terms for buyers. That's most likely why I don't care or have an interest in them. There won't be a buyer in my lifetime. Indeed it doesn't involve me.
  
  Odd thing to say? Maybe so. I can live with that.
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1079579 wrote:"Taking pride in ownership" is simply another marketing fluff phrase. It's so general that it's almost meaningless.
  
  CA doesn't care what people think about his property. So, would he look foolish saying he has no concern with pride of ownership? Yes, he would. It's the exact same thing.

  Or using your expanded definition, I have no concern in marketing fluff phrases when considering I don't market my house.
• Steel Valley Football

  Why not just say that you aren't concerned with what the population of Texas thinks about whether or not you made tasty dinners last week?
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1079608 wrote:Why not just say that you aren't concerned with what the population of Texas thinks about whether or not you made tasty dinners last week?

  It wouldn't apply to the topic at hand.
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1079583 wrote:I have no problem conceding that that may very well be your point however it ha never been mine.
  
  Mine is different. My point is that I do not care about curb appeal. This point you acknowledged earlier and for that I am appreciative.
  
  
  
  
  
  I don't know if my house is "atypical" or not. I'll leave that for you to discern. My house certainly wasn't built for a "non-conventional buyer". It wasn't built for a buyer at all.
  
  I don't have any issue with those phrases being fluff terms for buyers. That's most likely why I don't care or have an interest in them. There won't be a buyer in my lifetime. Indeed it doesn't involve me.
  
  Odd thing to say? Maybe so. I can live with that.

  
  I'm only acknowledging that is an odd an nonsensical thing to proclaim.
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1079609 wrote:It wouldn't apply to the topic at hand.

  Sure it would. I mentioned food.
• Steel Valley Football

  So, again, are you concerned w whether or not your house shows well?
• Con_Alma

  Con_Alma wrote:...My point is that I do not care about curb appeal. This point you acknowledged earlier and for that I am appreciative....

  
  
  

  Steel Valley Football;1079610 wrote:I'm only acknowledging that is an odd an nonsensical thing to proclaim.

  I think your words were. "We get it - you don't care what others think."
  
  It was earlier in the thread.
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1079613 wrote:So, again, are you concerned w whether or not your house shows well?

  I guess the simple answer is no. To whom would I be showing it to and why would I show it to them?
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football wrote:...
  
  CA, do you have any concern that your house shows well?

  Con_Alma;1075605 wrote:???
  
  I think you know the answer to that.
  
  My house isn't for"show". I can't think of any reason I would be concerned about it "showing well". That would mean it is others opinions that I have an interest in with regards to my home. I can assure you I don't.

  Didn't I already answer this question?
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1079617 wrote:I think your words were. "We get it - you don't care what others think."
  
  It was earlier in the thread.

  
  That was a general statement. It had nothing to do w curb appeal. I would never acknowledge someone saying they are not concerned with curb appeal as that is a nonsensical statement.
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1079622 wrote:Didn't I already answer this question?

  Not sufficiently, no. Yes or no should suffice.
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1079626 wrote:That was a general statement. It had nothing to do w curb appeal. I would never acknowledge someone saying they are not concerned with curb appeal as that is a nonsensical statement.

  
  My apologies. your response quoted my copied definition of curb appeal. It led me to believe that you were commenting on my not caring about curb appeal.
  

  Con_Alma;1074422 wrote:Definition - "Curb appeal is attractiveness of the exterior of a residential or commercial property....
  
  I don't want those who drive by to find it appealing but rather have no interest in it at all. Its my home not a museum. I will never sell it. I built it to live in it and die in it. What I do to it and in it I don't want othesr to see or even know of. It's not a trophy. It's a residence.

  Con_Alma wrote:...Definition - "Curb appeal is attractiveness of the exterior of a residential or commercial property. ...

  Steel Valley Football wrote: ...We get it - you don't care what others think. ...

• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1079630 wrote:Not sufficiently, no. Yes or no should suffice.

  The post prior was inclusive of a "no" for you. I hope providing the requested "no" was sufficient.
• Steel Valley Football

  Once again, a buyer or buyers need not be present or to even exist for your house to have the characteristics of showing well (being clean/organized).
  
  Round and round we go.
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1079686 wrote:Once again, a buyer or buyers need not be present or to even exist for your house to have the characteristics of showing well (being clean/organized).
  
  ....

  It is not the* present characteristics nor the characteristics that persons might see in my home that are of any interest to me.
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1079687 wrote:It is not there present characteristics nor the characteristics that persons might see in my home that are of any interest to me.

  
  What persons?
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1079691 wrote:What persons?

  Anyone and everyone.
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1079712 wrote:Anyone and everyone.

  Why would anyone and everyone see your home? Do you mean potential buyers?
• Con_Alma

  I don't know "why" they would nor do I care if they would. I'm not assuming that anyone would at all but rather that the charactersistics of an appeal to people are not important to me.
  
  I do not mean potential buyers. There is no potential for the home to be sold.
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1079758 wrote:I don't know "why" they would nor do I care if they would. I'm not assuming that anyone would at all but rather that the charactersistics of an appeal to people are not important to me.
  
  I do not mean potential buyers. There is no potential for the home to be sold.

  Exactly. Finally you see my point. That about wraps it up I think. Wouldn't you agree?
• Con_Alma

  Steel Valley Football;1079761 wrote:Exactly. Finally you see my point. That about wraps it up I think. Wouldn't you agree?

  I thought it was wrapped up on the first page. In addition I saw your point the last time we discussed this. It reemerged when you posted that you could prove otherwise when I stated that I don't care about curb appeal. I don't.
  
  You quickly did say that you couldn't disprove my interest but instead that there was an existence of curb appeal. Wasn't it wrapped up then?
• Steel Valley Football

  Con_Alma;1079774 wrote:I thought it was wrapped up on the first page. In addition I saw your point the last time we discussed this. It reemerged when you posted that you could prove otherwise when I stated that I don't care about curb appeal. I don't.
  
  You quickly did say that you couldn't disprove my interest but instead that there was an existence of curb appeal. Wasn't it wrapped up then?

  
  No. You are unaware that you concerned. That will always be true no matter what you post. You may even take that ignorance to the grave.
• Con_Alma

  I don't care if there is any curb appeal. If there was not any curb appeal I would do nothing different to add it.
  
  It is completely irrelevant with regards to my dwelling and to me.