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I truly love this woman and the work she does to educate us all. She is the real deal and wish she was in my area. I love listening to her and watching her and learning from her. She’s not only smart as a whip and straightforward but an honest and decent human being! I truly wish there were more of her but like said before I am so happy she atleast exists! You are a wonderful woman and so grateful for you and this channel!

I appreciate your channel so much and you being the human being you are. You saved me from being screwed over repeatedly by my agent. Thank you for being an honestly good agent!!! I wish there were more like you! Thankful you atleast exist!!❤❤❤ Many many blessings and good vibes and all that is good I send your way!

Love the video, Audra. You are an expert when it comes to painting! My Realtor suggested Greek Villa from Sherwin-Williams and it was a hit! We even painted the same color Greek Villa on the exterior with sealskin from Sherwin-Williams for the trimmings! It looks amazing! 🙌🏼 Go neutral people, you won't regret it! Blessings, Audra. ❤

I really enjoy listening to your video ❤ Buh i need the 13 questions please? 🙏🏻

As a new agent I'm rather disturbed that you are always telling clients to find an agent with a lot of experience. This seems self promoting on your behalf. How are new agent supposed to get experience?

Great advice!

We just finished our 3 interviews and so glad we did. We feel confident that our agent will get the most for our house and work with us to make that happen. Bless you for all the help we have learned from you 🙏 ❤️

The white is RAL 9010 white with a hint of yellow and a hint of black..

Honestly this home to my eyes does not look expensive...at all and the curtain color is a bit too strong or something for the room. However, the home looks clean and like effort has been put into it.

I hate lock boxes. Realtors who ask to use them I eliminate right away. Besides all that you’ve mentioned I don’t think that type of realtor has any immediacy or enough interest in selling my home. Selling an average home seems more difficult because the total dollar amount going to a realtor is not as attractive as a large expensive home. The motivation to get the best price isn’t as strong as it is with a much more expensive home. In other words given the effort it takes to get best price it is better to use that effort on large expensive homes…making the greater amount of juice worth the squeeze.

As a contractor, I agree with everything you are saying. It boggles my mind that sellers want to upgrade kitchens, baths, laundry rooms, etc. I have to explain to clients that they will only get a 60% return on investment at best in the market where I live. I can usually talk them back down to reality by only doing simple things like you recommend. Repair or replace that leaky toilet, faucet, shower, and garden hose bib. These are all simple things that can be done with minimal time, effort, and money. Clean, tidy and paint is the other thing I recommend. If something is clean and tidy, there is nothing for a potential buyer to complain about. As for paint, I definitely agree with you. Hire a professional. In my region of the country, it has a 105% return on investment. So for every $100 my clients spend on hiring me to paint their house, they profit $5 when they sell it. Also, professionally painted houses sell so much faster (because they present well to potential buyers). People are amazed how much nicer a house can look when you hire a professional, as compared to the sloppy job your eager friend provides because you paid them in beer and pizza. The other thing I recommend is to bring in an electrician and replace all the light switches and receptacles. It sounds expensive, but the electrician is required to bring your house up to code with everything they touch. It's an important big ticket item to buyers when the seller can say with confidence that all the light switches and receptacles are up to code. I had one client that wanted to sell their house, so we did what you recommend: Clean and tidy in the back yard. Repaired or replaced all the plumbing fixtures in the house (faucets, toilets, tub/shower). Painted the interior of the house (the exterior was brick and the soffit and facia were in good condition). Changed out the flooring in one bathroom (the rest of the house just needed some profession carpet cleaning). Updated all the light switches and receptacles in the house (electrician). Replaced the old outdated dining room light fixture. Kept all the old appliances, just gave them a clean and tidy. They loved it so much that they took their house off the market and decided to keep it, because they never realized that it could look so good, function perfectly, and be so comfortable. They spent the last 20 years struggling with leaky faucets, toilets, tub/shower diverters, garden hose bibs, sloppy paint job, and old outdated dingy light switches and receptacles because they dreaded the idea of having to hire someone. Two months later, they called me to thank me because their water bill went down. They thought I installed fancy water saving plumbing fixtures. Nope, I just fixed all your leaks. Keep up the good work Audra, and thanks for sharing. I greatly appreciate all the time and effort you put into producing these videos.

Recently bought a house and was amazed at how the selling agency operated. Lots of games go on behind the back of sellers and buyers but this one was quite bad. The scheme relied on sellers being penny wise but pound foolish. The selling agency offered 4% commission rather than the 5 or most likely 6 that other realtors asked. Then they under priced the home for a quick sale…I’m talking 25% below actual value! On top of that they kept 3% of the commission and gave buyer agents the measly 1%.. As a result the showing had only a few people show up because the selling agents didn’t want to be bothered with a 1% commission. They also wanted to send a message to this realtor. So we show up and love the place but are pretty skeptical based on the low price in a hot market AND hot property with 750’ of waterfront. Even though our realtor asked us to pay them 2% we were happy to do that with such a low price on the property. When you think it through all the seller sees (provided they don’t know the real value of their property) is they paid 4% instead of 6% and their property sold within two days. What could be better than that. On the realtors side they attract more sellers with low commissions and under pricing makes the properties sell rapidly generating fast money. In this case they are going for more turnover that outpaces the profits if they were to sell at the best price which would slow the sale. A quantity over quality sale approach. This situation hurts the seller but the buyer makes out really great. If I’m ever looking to buy again I will go to this realtor’s website and look at what they’re selling since their way of doing business benefits buyers and not sellers who are their clients.

If you have an inspection done prior to thinking about selling and address those items needing attention. Then later down the line when you want to sell, get a new inspection, are both inspections included in disclosures or just the most recent? Thank you for all your content btw.

When I sold real estate……I had to clean their houses….take trash out and replaced the toilet by myself…..bring your mother-in-law and ask her how the house looks…she will tell the truth….it’s so gross to see DEAD bugs inside the pretty foyer lights and lamps and black mold in the shower and poop on the side of the toilets….so gross…people are just LAZY

Teenage boys have smelly stinky shoes….it’s horrific…..rent a damn storage unit for the Christmas decorations and all the extra clothes…listen to her people!!!!

What is the brand paint color on your fire place mantle

Lots of junk, eh.

Yep that's what upset me hugely our house was not on the market my Parents had just died we had 4 Private request now it's 6 ?Peolple we have asked to do work 😂want a converted Bungalow with lots of scope for them to adapt it my son thought downsizing meant he takes everything we have with him 4 Beds one is absolutely huge ?I said (Downsizing means we take the essential stuff we would never fit it a house if we downsized and took absolutely everything ,has has huge emotional attachment I did but not now so I am winning him actually round ..

I am thinking if this looks like no one lives in here ?That they will offer far less !The estate agent told my sister in law clean tidy don't buy a new kitchen clean everything go away the entire weekend .Do sealed bids I must admit the quote he gave my brother he thought was joking it had shot up well over £5 k (For leasehold two bed flat ?l"Lots is the location ?)Surely we are really old quiet area but this is seriously the best location I am having anxiety already I need a skip ..Pronto ,for myself !I understand minimalist we have professional decorator for us ..

Magnolia upset her already !Plain Cream Bathroom White /Kitchen White all ceilings white and no-not rushing to sell ! Its done !Sorry my Dear !Lord I shall be a nervous wreck !Just trying as a disabled person sort all this -Ekk I shall be nervous wreck and we await windows being clean (My son 15 is upstairs it's huge !)But like a pimps parlour !I shall be making him box everything up we all ready de Museum this !My brothers can sort lots !Thanks my dear !

This, among other reasons, is why I fired my last agent. Most agents here wont do this. One reason among many Im having a hard time finding educated and competent agents. Plus when they learn I have a "unique prooerty" and have no idea how to price or market it, their eyes go like a deer in headligts. They simply dont want to work.

NOOOO on Rumors. It will be a short-lived selection.

Yikes to your jacket 😅

Yep never do it repair and clean do the garden or get someone to they going to rip it all out 😂Literally -We have a garage we don't live in it but it's shot up in value over the years from £69 k to just over £525,000 rural village but good transport -Me I am sleeping in a coat we are conservation area we have decided other than small improvements we can actually do -It's a no no no !We do have a Spate Summer house I am not staying in - /People already want to buy it !Upstairs is huge !A huge attic Bedroom ,but I am cheaply re doing that but not expensive -Someone said oh buy a new lead flat roof it lasts a lifetime 😱Lead Flat roof costs a fortune they all want to change everything basic Magnolia paint or white -We have new Boiler -I think I put myself in a wardrobe ..Or a something -

Can you share the brand, size and color of your engineer flooring?

I need practical, beautiful and timeless. I have had white cabinets and black appliances/hardware for 10 years and I just don't love it anymore. With white walls, it's simply too much white and I'm constantly painting or decorating to try to find the right balance. The black appliances show every finger print or smudge and never look clean. But I love my granite countertop. It is very durable, it doesn't stain or chip easily. I also do not want laminate or LVP floors in my living space. For me, it will be brown wood floors & cabinets, white walls, white granite countertops, stainless steel appliances and nickel hardware/fixtures in my next home. And, I also agree, no more signs.

Open shelving was never good to me. I am old and practical. I believe that classic styles will always have some appeal. And I live in the East Coast where trends are probably more conservative. In our case 2019, the cost of a slab of granite to be much more cost effective than quartz. We got a beautiful piece. It had veins of blueish gray, beige, and more. I used a dark blue subway tile back splash. The group was a darkish grey. The walls are a warm very pale grey. I fought against the grey and couldn't find a decent color palette. I finally gave in when I realized I had a real stone fire place made of local field gray stone. It was literally the elephant in the room. So I gave up and incorporated gray, slightly.

But I like grey..

I wish you would have to touch on color for LVP’s what buyers or sellers prefer

Americans have zero taste. Their houses are mainly wooden shacks high-rise blocks or trailer parks.

Love, Love, Love this video! Wonderful food for thought!

the face looks frozen expressionless

I always take my shoes off and I think it’s wrong that people don’t take off their shoes in a nice clean home. If floor is dirty than fine but in a clean home it’s unacceptable that people don’t take off their shoes. The home might sell but it might not sell also but even if it does the new owners deserve a clean home. I disagree on that one. I told gang members who my brother Invited home for drug deals and stuff to take off their shoes nope they didn’t like it and some of them never listened but I am not their slaves and I will speak out against this disgusting behaviour. Those people who disrespect like this had their mom clean for them 😤 It’s a matter of self respect and good manners that’s it. Ps I am guessing the agents also don’t want to take their shoes off lol that’s probably why it made the list. It’s wrong you all have to take their shoes. Shoes are more slippery than socks often so that’s not an excuse really.

Unless you are a millionaire you will never be able to keep up with the trends!! Covid was only 4 years ago and everything that was in style then is out. My advice is just decorate your house the way you want to. Stop trying to keep up and stop trying to please the potential buyers that may buy your house in the future. Don’t get sucked into this nonsense.

My favorite neutral is cedar ket from BM

Antiques are fun, but I would never use them to tell a story?! Because they are someone else’s story… I see you have a lot of home Good stuff in your house! not a big deal! It looks nice. And when you stage a home, nobody wants to listen to the items in the house. They just want to look at it so they can envision what THEY want to display and how THEY want to decorate. And if anything is just stuck to the wall, that means someone didn’t have enough money to do it properly with an electrician. So …I think that is no Bueno… And there’s way TOO much stuff in the house which screams…not enough room to display items in an admirable/meaningful manner. Yes ! Take 45% out!

Thanks for the tour! I love great artwork in homes. I will never forget house sitting and interior designer / realtors home in Old NE St Pete it was absolutely inspiring.

Why don’t you have any of the lights on that you added on the wall? You talked about how it elevates the look with all the lighting, but you don’t even have the lights on??

I SO agree with gray being dated! Especially jarring is to see cool gray walls and orange-ish wood floors

Gorgeous wide, long porcelain tile planks from Porcelanosa. Thin thin grout line. It’s beautiful in our Florida home.

Just found this channel today and subscribed! Great content.

Are books okay to display? I can imagine not political or religious books, but just in general?

Audra is hilarious. I love her laugh. It makes me laugh.

Thank you Audra, very informative and impressive…. Home owner in Ontario Ca.

We need to stop saying that 6.5% mortgage rates are high. They are not. Back in 2007. The mortgage rates were around 6 to 7%. We have been at all-time historic crazy lows with mortgage rates for the last several years. That is not normal. We need to stop normalizing 2% mortgage rates by calling 6.5% rates “high”.

Market is about to correct

Trying to choose flooring for a new build in Montana. Love hardwood and would prefer it but concerned about durability in wetter seasons. Was considering LVP but let’s face it, it’s plastic. I recently went to two of the high end flooring stores in my area and both echoed they want to faze out LVP due to problems and claims. They are now pushing some of the higher quality water resistant laminate wood look floors. Unfortunately I’m still not sure what the best approach would be for us.

Couldn't disagree with you more on the porcelain tile wood-look flooring. There are a ton more choices than gray and a ton more sizes than the small plank you refer to in this video. We chose a warm wood color that looks almost identical with what you used on your floor. We also have radiant heat in our floor which makes it nice and toasty on the feet. Our porcelain tiles are 6 foot long by 10 inches wide and the grout is 1/8" (very tight). Grout color matches with the darker variation in the "wood" color so it looks totally natural. Everyone who has seen our kitchen so far cannot believe it's tile!! One friend asked when will we have to re-sand and stain it! That's how much it looks like wood!! You being so "off" on this tile makes me question all your other advice on here. ; )

As a realtor in my opinion, a housing market crash is imminent due to the high number of individuals who purchased homes above the asking price despite the low interest rates. These buyers find themselves in precarious situations as housing prices decline, leaving them without any equity. If they become unable to afford their homes, foreclosure becomes a likely outcome. Even attempting to sell would not yield any profits. This scenario is expected to impact a significant number of people, particularly in light of the anticipated surge in layoffs and the rapid increase in the cost of living.

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