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Everything now days if redone tends to all have some sorta gray/ white theme with LVT flooring. No one these days believes in a STORM DOOR OR WINDOWS! 🤔

All white kitchens will never go out of style. Don’t listen to these people who think they know it all.

Great advice.

Judge has cancelled the Onion bid because it was fraudulent

I think kitchen islands are ugly and breaks the flow of the kitchen. I especially don’t like when people keep appliances such as toasters, juicers and coffee makers on the island. It looks junky and dirty.

Great tips. Thanks!

I love all white kitchen cabinets with a warm color counter. I like to know people’s kitchens are clean when I eat there, including my own. White is really not any harder to keep clean. I find darker kitchen cabinets depressing.

Great video!! Thank you. Helps me to stop resisting!

When I am not in the kitchen, I don't want to see the kitchen because it makes me want to eat. Again. Seeing my beautiful bed makes me want to lay down and sleep.

I still have greens and golds from the 1970’s.

Moral of the story, never change your house because whatever trend it was built in will eventually come back. We built an open concept but I would love to live in an old victorian mansion.

If a male survives first five years as an agent, hes already the best type of agent because male agents have it tougher. Female agents are presumed to be trustworthy and honest, plus safe to have around your wife.

A lot of professional photos are so photo shopped they don't even resemble the actual house.

Excellent advice!

The generation coming up it's going to be very hard for them to fold a home or condo or townhouse interest rate is out of the world greed is staying up America

The house market messed up because the prices of houses hit the roof interest rate hit the roof property taxes that we should never pay hit the roof underpaid jobs How can any America for the house now

Hi Jen, thanks for all the time and great information you provide in all your videos; this one was particularly timely for me. Living in Florida, my agent (who has extensive experience in my section of the county) would like me to be ready to list by Thanksgiving when the snowbirds begin their migration south, but with the recent slowdown of the market, I feel like I don't want the stress of giving myself a deadline... Any thoughts???

I like ceramic tile for a kitchen and bathroom. Wear cushy slippers when spending a lot of time standing on it.

The trends are all going towards the way I have intuitively decorated my space. 😊

Not a fan of open concept unless it's a small cabin. It looks like a warehouse.

I like my open kitchen...so divided rooms are like the old days...sorry I disagree. Perhaps it depends on size of open room.

Selling homes fully furnished is a thing here in Florida. We looked at a few of these when we were relocating, and determined that was a deal breaker. Who wants your used stuff, especially if you died. Hire a clean out crew, get rid of all that junk. The chance you will find a furnished home that suits your taste is zero.

Tile flooring with grout in the kitchen is a definite no-no. Despite sealing, the grout will absorb kitchen grease and you'll never get it clean.

I have heard this story to remove baseboards and not use quarter round and I think that is hogwash. We had an entire first floor to refloor and pulling up all the baseboards would have been expensive, time consuming AND introduced the issues of the baseboard leaving gaps where the floor was not perfectly flat. We already had very tall, expensive baseboard before we started. So we chose to lay the engineered hardwood, leaving a gap to the existing baseboards and place the quarter round to cover the gap, also conforming to any irregularities in the flatness of the floor. With the very tall baseboards and a quarter round at bottom, I'm very happy with the results and in hind sight I'm really glad I DIDN'T listen to the anti-quarter round opinion.

I have a condo with a small galley kitchen with an eat in breakfast nook area. The kitchen is from he 80's. I was going to do the White cabinets with a darker brick backsplash. Now I'm 2nd guessing. Darker cabinets will make the kitchen look smaller. I thought white cabinets were timeless, unless you meant just ALL white kitchens. My neighbor has white cabinets, counters, backsplash, and appliances. Not good

My backsplash has 1 inch mosaic tiles, which I tead is outdated. It's neutral shell color, but I had considered "painting" it white. Still a bad idea??

Are art deco track lights or modern stainless steel track lights in or out of style in s kitchen??

Oh. I just put $40K to custom an U-shape kitchen, instead of an island. Glad it's not on your list.

Hey, Jen. Thanks again for a great content video. I have a question if you have a moment. We have replaced our central air in the last few years. Ouch! In Massachusetts with oil heat or other conventional heating system, would a prospective seller still consider replacing a conventional HVAC system? There is such a trend for the heat pump and air wall units, I might hesitate thinking a new owner may not value it the way I do.

I've lived with hardwood floors most of my life. They wear well, and the best floors of all were solid maple in a very old home I grew up in, in Massachusetts. But for overall appearance, my favorite was the 10 inch softwood floors upstairs in my NJ Victorian. They require more effort to naintain than hardwood, but warmth and character, they were wonderful. I even grew to like the few squeaky spots. Mine had a natural finish, but neighbors painted theirs, and they still looked great. We retired to Florida, have all luxury vinyl tile, very practical for this climate. One thing to consider about LVP, it's a noisier surface than wood. No one seems to mention it and I wonder if their will be engineering changes to adjust that concern. On the up side, it's a very forgiving surface when you drop something. They are also easy to clean.

Yes, we had hardwood floors also and the same thing with the refrigerator. Every time icemaker would go on the refrigerator would squirt water which we didn’t know until I looked up in the ceiling from the garage because the kitchen is above it and solve this then start paying attention to the floor and it was ruining. Of course, I called my insurance company State Farmand they said they wouldn’t pay a dime took them to court and I lost.

I have never liked open concept floor plans. I tricks the eye into thinking the overall space is larger, but it deprives you of privacy. I don't like seeing into the kitchen after meal preparation. The kids need a space to be kids. There is less wall space for art. Activities that should be separated are apart from each other.

We built a custom home so there are not any comps, now what?

Thank you Jen. A lot of the homes in my area are either smaller or larger than mine by a few hundred feet. I believe this is where I may need to go outside the one-mile radius to look for comparables, correct? When I go outside my area, there are other homes that have less square footage and land; however, did not list a price history, just the price it sold for?

Boy I would love to use the "sold" feature in Zillow for my area but I live in Montana and it is a non disclosure state, meaning that sale prices are not disclosed to the public.

Good to know!!

I’d suggest viewing price per square foot as a good gauge for home values specifically in new build areas. Most pop-up neighborhoods are developer spec homes with very little upgrades.

I've been using a similar spreadsheet. In addition, I track year built, original list price, DOM, solar, whether I've been to the open house, listing agent and buyer's agent

We had put in an offer on a house I wanted to buy. We heard back from our realtor that the builder's realtor sent a counteroffer. WE told our realtor our first offer was our best. She went back and told the listing agent that and we never heard back. It has been 3 weeks. The home is listed for sale as I write. Because of the market the builder would except our price but wanted our home sold in 20 days and we would have to pay his construction loan for November and December. And on top of that the builder has the right for a kick out during the whole process. That seemed very unfair. What are your thoughts?

On my zillow, once the house goes to sold status you can no longer see the pictures. How do you get the photos?

16 min in and no iuseful info

➡ What's your biggest fear with getting your home ready for the market? 🏡

The key shot for the video showed a butcher block island with a sink in it, with a big red arrow. Did you have a comment on that in the video? I didn’t see it.

So true about all the grey and white. Now if the manufacturers would just catch up! I’ve been looking for a countertop material for two years. Not much available outside the grey/white palette.

Some large metro areas are changing codes for minimum lot size. Austin, TX recently adopted a minimum size of 1,800 sq ft. This seems like it would be a nightmare in regards to major repairs such as foundation. How coukd those repairs be done without compromising the house adjacent? I understand they want to build more houses with the land they have, but this seems insane. There are so many moving parts to home affordability. Not sure it can be solved by focusing on only one factor such as rates. Just my opinion. Thanks for the video-very informative.

OMG this is outdated? tHIS MAKES my parents 70's home new and hip????? Yeh, I hated that open shelving. My parents have the dark wood/natural look and tons of beiges. I'm sick of beige. and their house is NOT open floor plan. I don't believe it. I do remember doing turkeys and my mom didn't want people to see the turkey mess in the kitchen. That's why there's a separate dining room. People don't want to see the food prep stuff. I think I'm going to need to go to therapy for this...LOL.. My Mom's house ithe new thing.

Women weren't allowed in the trades until recently... i tried to get a trade job for decades. Women could NOT even have their own finances until the 1970's.

Fun fact. There are 15.1 million empty homes in the US. Why is there a housing shortage. False scarcity to drive up the price. ??