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Bill Cobb

Greater Baton Rouge Home Sellers Tip: Pet Odors Turn AwayPotential Buyers!

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September 14, 2011 01:41 AM

http://batonrougerealestateappraisal.com/ - Greater Baton Rouge Home Appraisers: Baton Rouge Housingand Pet Odors Don't Mix Sales Tip!

My Appraiser Friend in Sacramento California, Ryan Lundquist, justposted this interesting article, Letting the dogs pee outside is an okayidea | Sacramento Appraisal Blog . Image is from Ryan's post.

My Baton Rouge Home Appraiser for 20 years comments are these:

It's amazing how many people have pets, don't realize just how strongpet odor can be (owners get used to it), especially with cats, and weappraisers sometimes gag over the smells in people's homes....trying tomaintain a smile during the inspection.

I appraised a home recently in Area 41 where pets had so smelled up thehome that it took close to 550 days on the market to sell this under 15 yrold home at a huge discount. If the seller would have just invested $2,500 and changed out the carpet and removedthe pet odor, they might have not lost about $15,000 on the sale.

Home Selling Tip For Pet Owners : When it comes time to sell yourhome and you've owned pets, move the pets to another location, changeout the carpet and get rid of the pet odor. Ask others that don't live thereto do the sniff test to make sure the pet odor is gone!

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