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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Gail and her daughters have outgrown their modest two-bedroom home, and while Mom thought she could sell the property without a realtor, six weeks have passed without a single offer. Hiring a professional agent is sure to improve her prospects, but with its shoddy paint job, peeling wallpaper, ratty carpet runner, and ramshackle front and back porches, Gail’s semi-detached home is completely unsellable.
In order to give the property the polish buyers expect, Sofie comes up with a dramatic design plan. And while Anthony and the team neutralize the paint, lay new carpet, and repair the porches, Sofie shows Gail what it will take to convert her home from sad to sold.
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Can a slick makeover and big sales campaign help desperate homeowners sell their 'unsellable' homes? Packed with practical advice and tips to add real value to your house, this bold series shows viewers how to transform unwanted properties into unstoppable homes.
Unsellables - DIY Disaster - Season 2 - Episode 8
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I have become addicted to this show.
Me too.
Same
Ditto
I'm slowly hating the green/gray they are painting everywhere :D
I, too, love this show! Sophie is the perfect person to help the sellers see what needs to be done, and yet she knows just what to say to not hurt the sellers’ feelings! Love her!
I really enjoy learning from the magical contractor. He has so many great ideas that make a huge impact.
No matter what they do to that house the fact that the neighbours yard is full of rubbish and junk is enough to send me running
her house was just as badly neglected. It is an "up and coming neighborhood" translation...trashy but want good money
What trash? A few cushions or something the neighbours might be putting out free to the neighbourhood? That’s extremely common in Toronto and it’s often not trash. The lawns are green and well kept, there are flower beds. This was a working class neighbourhood in the process of gentrification, but you can tell people are still taking care of their homes.
@@jwilliams8931 The front of the home while older, is tidy. I think they mean the neighbor’s trash in they backyard at 3:50
@@ber1779 oh yeah, hopefully from renos and not just every day trash. Went to an open house where there was a shared drive, neighbours dog was pawing thru trash and looking for a snack. Was a massive turn off. Hard enough have a 15’ wide yard.
@@jwilliams8931, there was an entire large pile of black plastic trash bags and other stuff all piled together in a yard that hadn't seen a lawnmower in months, if not years! The fence was chain link and rusted - that should give you some clues as to the level of care and upkeep of that property next store, fully viewable from the essentially collapsed/rotted away "back porch and stairs" in the backyard of the home that was going to be fixed up enough to get a buyer. People in Toronto at the time this was filmed were buying ANYTHING they could get their hands on - rather like the real estate bubble market that is once again happening in many areas of the US (August 10, 2021).
My Realtor was FANTASTIC! If I couldn’t mow the yard? She sent someone! My husband of 29 yrs left while I was fighting cancer again! It was messy and painful. My Realtor Judy, was a shoulder to cry on, was my cheerleader to keep it SPOTLESS! Which I did. She brought fresh flowers 💐 Point is, She was active in more than reading the mls and collecting a check. The Realtors in these episodes are worthless and lazy. Had I had not even dusted my downstairs She would’ve canceled open houses! I staged it to perfection! Other Realtors asked what of my things they could buy lol my Dishes, my desk, curtains! We had a first meeting and walkthrough. I did something these sellers don’t do...LISTENED!
I'm amazed that anyone would think that their house is in sellable condition with the front and back porch both falling apart. The very first thing you do is to make all repairs before you put it on the market.
She thought it didn't matter because they were outdoors!
Ikr!!! Because they were OUTSIDE it doesn’t matter??!! I can’t believe people have no sense of style and don’t know how to furnish a house?!! When I had a home all I wanted to do was make it look better. It’s just so odd to me that people don’t know anything about basic decor!
this less the price.
I would have like to see how they fixed those stairs to the back yard. I think that was a bigger job than the front porch.
I really wanted to see the back too. So I figure they just went cheap and threw something together. So her house was already substancually under market price, and she still had to take less-sad really.
I wonder why they even showed the back stairs...??? I waited the whole episode to see what was going to happen !
They tore it off and left it. Thats usually what's done on low budgets.
Same
Probably just added stairs, they would have needed something for rear access.
14:37 Literally, painting the porch floor right over peeling paint. That's sad to see.
My goodness, it appears they didn't even sweep all the chips, leaf crumbs, dust, rust chips etc off! What in the world...
@@Mandy-nt2cs Such a mess!
Didn't clean the baseboard before caulking and painting either!! 😧
After they said they were going to sand it and didn't. Quick, fast, and cheap is how these shows work.
@@alextirrellRI I’ll be checking for this when I buy my first home. Good catch
This family is so sweet and I hope they were able to sell their home and move into one they like better. I thought they did a great job on the renovation. Great work to all involved! I was so impressed the single mom could afford a home of that price. I'm a single mom and I could never afford something that expensive where I live. I was impressed by this beautiful family!
They tore off the entire porch area in the back and didn't show what they did there instead. I wouldn't think they just left it off as there would be no way of getting out that back door as it was pretty high off the ground. Why didn't they show what they did there? So strange.
If you can’t fix hazardous construction, it must be torn down. Which they most likely did. Plus the realtor said she plans to add house is “priced to sell” meaning it’s not a turnkey home.
I would think they put a few stairs instead but probably not DIY
Priced to sell statement was before the makeover.
Rebuilding that back porch would be so simple. My grandmother's house, about the same age and not far away from this house, needed a new back porch. Working together, my mom, grandmother, and I had the old one gone, cleaned up, and all the new wood bought by lunch time. By dinner, the new porch was in primer. Two days later, it was finished.
@@michaeltutty1540 you are a great son and grandson ❤️
Sold under the asking price... what was the cost of the improvements? TREMENDOUS cost. They only ever give the materials cost. Labor for those changes is astronomical!
This show picked up the labor costs, using Anthony's team of workers and employees of HGTV to do the work.
Peeling paint on the exterior and a rusty unsafe front porch 'are not' decor. They are essentials that make up the house.
I love Anthony! ❤️
Gail is lovely. The home looks cozy and inviting after the makeover.
Lol they said they were going to sand down the front porch, but they just painted over the peeling paint anyways. The homeowner could've done that.
The house next door is a dump. At least the back yard. Who'd want that?
@@rocket7697 Yeah, the man who owns the house next door to me kicked out the tenants a few months ago to let his daughter, her husband and their 4 children move in. It was junky before in the very Large back yard.. now it's packed full of junk in the very small front & side yard as well... mowers, go carts, saw horses, fridges, metal rims, tires, radios, baby toys... in fact you could probably 5$ and go find one of anything you could possibly need.. although I'm sure you wouldn't want it lol it's so bad.
And the original blue paint is still showing at the base of the wall on the bricks!!! Why... ??? 😫
In that condition, the only market interested would be the flippers and DIY'ers.
Looks more than liveable to me
It became an arty neighbourhood. Not everybody is looking for a mansion.
Houses are so expensive in Canada, and very tiny even at a high price. IT is a good thing to look at every room before you put on market.
"They couldn't even put their blinds straight!" Wow.
I did love the wallpaper they left in the living room.
They left that front downspout with chipping paint.... yech!
Yes! I was here to comment the same thing. I mean they painted the railing right next to it. Even if they just slapped white paint over the metal it would have helped.
Why didn’t they trim the roses that are growing over the walkway to the stairs?
I was thinking that too. Anyone walking down that walkway would be getting snagged.
I was waiting the whole episode for that.
Remember how Mrs Bucket had to dodge the overgrown hedge at her sister's house, just to enter it?? Same image came to me on seeing this entrance walk!!
Congratulations that was one great transformation
Someone mentioned the green paint a few videos ago...and now I can't unnotice it! I 🙈
I know she didn't put pictures of that house on her job bulletin.🤣🤣🤣🤣
I know her coworkers were like "Girl Stop!"🤣🤣🤣🤣
😄😄😄💯💯
A CREAM COLOR stair runner??? That's crazy. It's going to be black in a week. That would really turn me off. And we have the hideous green again. I cannot believe they didn't SAND the porch before they painted it! WHO does that?? I would never buy that. And what did the back porch end up looking like? They never show it.
A beige carpet or runner is fine. And I love that fresh green. Different tastes. The work wasn’t perfect but there was a vast improvement. She sold it, and that’s what the show is about.
I knew a guy who did stairs with staples, it didn't hold. That was dumb.
"in our mind it looks great?" It says I don't care, soon it will be your problem, not mine.
Or it maybe better than anything else she had experienced and may even be typical for the area. People only know what they know.
OMG!!! $279,000 for an OLD house in poor repair that's less than 1,000 square feet?! Here in the Central Valley of California that much money will buy you a home that's anywhere from 2,500-3,5000 square feet, in good repair and in a neighborhood you can enjoy living in. I'm always amazed at what the homes on this program are selling for. :o
It’s close to downtown Toronto and was a gentrifying neighbourhood, that was cheap and you def could not get a house at that price now, probably not even a parking pad
Sofie was so gentle with her
Finally - a genuine vendor who accepted the price offered.
Gail is a beautiful lady. I can't believe she has got almost adult daughters! I thoughts she is barely 30!
“ I was thinking because it was outside it didn’t matter” 😂 what?!?!? Would she buy a a house at that price with that damage? I really feel like a lot of these people could figure out their problem by just looking at the house entirely and saying what I’d be willing to buy this like this
A lot of people are blind to their yards, but she was pruning that rose bush, the back looked derelict
It was that way when you bought it 5 years ago? SO you let it fall apart further? Your biggest investment people...don't be so careless.
I think I would prefer the dining room next to the kitchen and the sitting room at the front of the home 🤔
I'm with you - I know if I had that arrangement I'd just eat on the couch, I'm much too hungry a hippo to haul my dinner all the way through the house ;) Also, the bed in the window is super weird to me. Put it on the wall facing the door and let the light in/make it easier to work yer curtains!
I don't like the "after" dining room. And they left the wallpaper on in the living room? And they didn't show the new back porch.
I got the impression they left it demolished or put in the most basic of steps.
That dated "connecting to the internet using your Mom's AOL free trial CD in 1998" sound at 19:06.
Beautiful!
You missed painting the gutter off the front deck
Interesting episode. In the before, what caught my eye is the GORGEOUS Paul Scarlett rose bush. It could well be as old as that house. There are a lot of those antique roses in that area of the city. As for the house, the after looks more cared for, but is still needing a lot to bring it up to par. First thing is to remove the ceiling tiles. They were common in the 50s and 60s to hide poor ceiling plaster. They do need to be tested for asbestos, thought. A huge number of them were made in Asbestos, Quebec, and they have a HUGE asbestos content. They look as cheap as they were to buy half a century ago.
So glad she sold it. She needed a new start with better neighbors.
But what kind of neighbor was she, leaving her home in that slum condition?
@@tamjg agreed she "bought the house as it was and though someone else would do the same" after years of further neglect. She brought down the area, herself. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a rodent issue since she didn't take care of anything.
I paused at 19:51 to see that the garden pathway still had grass growing across it? and the patio out front needed filler in between the wood flooring and more paint...You can see it quite clearly. 20:38 the rose bush needed a trim back as she walked up the pathway, (that is a 20 min job).
Wow!! The grass in the sidewalk does look pretty bad, and it's one thing that is VERY EASY to fix. Just dig the grass out. Yeesh!!
Gail works in marketing. Wow. I wonder how she described that rundown home in the ad she created. What was she thinking? Based on the condition of her home, I'm not so sure her marketing skills are trustworthy. Hopefully she learned something for the next place.
I just don't understand how adults live like this and are confused as to why their house doesn't sell. The team did a great job with the renovation!! It looks so bright, cheery, and charming.
Good episode. Thank you for uploading.
This home is a disaster! She seems like such a nice lady but I think she has no idea about a sellable home.
What is sad is that people are prepared to live with dangerous and ugly porches - a little maintenance on a regular basis would have prevented or fixed a lot of the issues.
For once I like the change. But I want to see the back porch.
Surely people understand about presentation? Peeling paint and loose railings is Decor? 🤔 I too find it hard to believe that people think they can sell a house with those sort of problems without making some sort of effort to fix it up. 🤔🤔🙄
Oh yes, why were those beautiful roses in front never mentioned? They were the best thing there.
Good grief SAND THE PORCH FIRST!!! It's one of the first things a buyer will see, and you completely messed it up!
Wow everything looks fresh and clean.
Gail and her girls are so darn cute!
If I ever came to view a house like this, I would not even go in after I had seen that crumbling neglected porch... a depressing shoddy dump
Blew my drink outta my nose when they replaced the chandelier.
Miss Gail was way over her head thinking she could sell her property privately. What were her Marketing and Promotion skillsets? The seller's strategy might be Less for More (dollars), but the Buyer's strategy is More for Less (dollars). Asking half million dollars for a run down house was asking too much of the Buyer. Before she started the journey, she should have gone comparison shopping for houses, to observe the condition of the houses for sale.
Sophie, Anthony and their team helped the family get on the right track. Renovations add value to the property, and may even increase the asking price. I hope she applied these new Marketing and Promotion experiences, in buying her new home, and in her career.
She really thought her trashed dump would sell in that condition and never lifted a finger to fix a single thing? Incredible, but I guess she thought it was fine.
An absolute major improvement!
That limey green paint again 😛
That Gail works in marketing and promotion is so confusing as she doesn't have a clue about the importance of presenting the house in its best light. I don't get it..
My house was in similar condition when I bought it. The owner was an elderly combat veteran whose family allowed the house to become severely neglected and filthy 😔
I'm really surprised they didn't sand that porch down much more.
What sells houses is kitchens and bathrooms. But this house and many other of your cheap fixes don’t have bathrooms or kitchens
Who lives this way? It's run down and gross. It didn't sell because it's falling apart and grungy
That’s how she bought it, probably thinking she could do the work on it. But likely wasn’t realistically something she could afford.
I’ll bet she was doing the best she could, not bad for a single mom with 2 daughters living in an expensive city, also she may not have had a lot of practical skills
100% better!
how to sell houses for slobs
They should have called this show "Clueless Sellers" lol She wants to buy a turn key home, but doesn't think her house should be for the buyer. Her house is a piece of old junk. I wouldn't buy it, I feel sorry for anyone who would.
So many houses on this show are of this style. They are so close to neighbors and the neighbors trashed yards are trashed and hurt the curb appeal hurt their home even after they fix theirs up. No way I would buy a home if the neighbors yard was full of trash like that.
Rob B Keep in mind it's in Torontos. Homes in urban areas are going to be close to neighbors. Like you can't have a five bedroom mansion with three acres of land on a quiet street near shops and restaurants in a trendy downtown neighbors with no neighbors. If you don't want to live close to neighbors, then move out to the country.
Also what trash? This was a working class neighbourhood but people still kept up the front yards, it’s not the suburbs
Clean up the grass growing across the sidewalk!
3% of the list price should be spent on staging not including necessary repairs.
Didn't show bathroom or the girl's rooms . Barely showed the kitchen
I noticed that they did not show the kitchen nor the bathroom. If those rooms are anything like the rest of this house, I would be heading for the hills. Andree Simoneau - I totally agree with your comment !!!
These people are clueless. I'm astonished.
The trash next door makes that house unsellable. I would not move next door to pigs!
All that curb appeal for the porch and you just left the peeling rain gutter? A little paint while you're out there and it would look so much nicer!
How can people live in such overwhelming UGLY???😩
What about the back porch? I'd like to see what they did there.
Id hate to point it out. But she is obviously a single mom. Im not sure what income she brings in, but she may not normally afford all those updates outside of the show. However she has the advantage of having 2 daughters old enough for work too, and can help bring in the needed income to update the house.
It's not always about the money, you can rip wallpaper down and that's pretty much free, painting is also not that expensive so those are things that you could have done on her own, but you didn't and her daughter's can definitely help her do those two
strange. The living room is next to the kitchen and the dining room is at the front of the house. Hmm
The home owner looks so much like Diana Ross.
She's really pretty!
Xenia Lovespink
I decided to comment how cute the owner is but, honestly, I'm not seeing the Diana Ross thing.
Xenia Lovespink She really does!
Diana Ross's eyes aren't popping out of her face though.
I prefer the walk around without the owner. Very messy house.
What about the back porch? Pretty house after the updates. Did it sell? Good job. 👍
At 21:25-ish Sofie says it sold for slightly under the asking price just days after they filmed.
This place would be $800,000 now. Toronto real estate is insane.
Great transformation but the painted heywood Wakefield dresser hurts my soul 😖🤘
I know this is old. Most sellers are unrealistic and unreasonable about what is appealing
It’s funny that you can live in a house that is run down and after a while you don’t even notice those things that are glaringly obvious to someone else! I did that with one of my houses-sometimes as a seller you think “as is”! If it were perfect the price would be higher! But buyers now days want move in ready.
This really demonstrates how crazy the real estate market was in the early 2000s! This is a dump, it's grungy inside and falling apart outside, needs at least $60,000 worth of work to bring it up to minimum standards. Sophie, sorry, you cleaned it up a bit but it's still a dump! $300K for that back then. Geez. Nuts!
And what kind of a bathroom did they have. I always look at kitchens and baths. They're costly.
She looks like she might be hyperthyroid because her eyes are popping out. If so, I hope she gets medical help.
@@nicholearel5692 I Googled it and it sounds like a very serious, and unpleasant, disorder. I'm so sorry your mother has to deal with it.
I found this online about Graves disease: veryhealthy.life/13-signs-of-graves-disease/13/
You just gave your occupation away haha
I thought that was just how some black people looked...
Why didn't Sofie do the walk through evaluation WITH the home owner? This is the very first episode in which I have seen Sofie do the home's evaluation without the home owner.
Very telling.
Oh and they always sell for less then asking when every other house in the neighbourhoods sell for way over asking price. Sad
I've seen episodes where Sofie complains about that very shade of green.....
There'll be potential buyers who'll walk in and say 'Oooh I don't like the furniture, I don't like the paint, the decor, no way to get outside?! You nuts?! That's a major safety hazard!'
I can't believe they did such a poor job on the porch. They didn't even bother to sand down the old paint or chip it off. They just painted over it. I really wanted to see what they did with the back porch too.
So....great job of turning half arsed presentation into wow. I would like to know what was done re that wreck of a back deck. Did the seller take off the cost of replacing it from her asking price?
Here you go with green. That is not neural white beige and gray are neural. Only a few people like green.
I adore this show, but I'm a little disappointed here... I understand they're doing improvements on a budget for the seller, but WHY would they paint the porch floorboards without at LEAST sanding down the the existing peeling paint. People will notice that and it looks lazy. ☹
You'd think they'd paint the downspout that is next to the porch. It's hideous and a few seconds with paint could have fixed it.
I don't understand the entitlement. I would NEVER EVER pay what she's asking. Its a fixer upper. Not move in ready.
That place is in rough shape. Wow
OMG! Run!, don't walk to the nearest outside door!
I always wonder what all these folks do for a living to be able to pay so much. I‘m dating myself, but when we bought our home in 1996 it was $75,000, brand newly built in a nice suburb of Western New York. It‘s small...a 1200 sf ranch, but we raised 3 kids in it. It‘s fully paid off, and is worth probably $175,000 now. Our income was well above the median for the area, but we never considered “upsizing.“ I can’t imagine paying for a home that cost $400,000 or $500,000- I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night!!! I know it’s different in Canada (which is literally 15 minutes from my town)... maybe college is free there? I don’t know. Our tiny house allowed us to put 3 kids through college with no student debt. Now it’s the perfect house to retire in. When I see these older folks looking to buy houses for that much, I wonder why- except that maybe they’re selling their current homes for even more.
We used to have $100 000 houses in the 90s. The average house is now 9x that. The only way I see people affording that is family money, good career, house flipping or extreme debt, a lot of people are moving on but you have to move very far to escape the inflation, people commute 1-2 hours now from outlying areas.
I wouldn't buy it for $100
She clearly didn’t know what she was doing. The RA should have at least priced it compatible with the neighborhood. She lost a ton of money on this sale. Lesson learned.
Why didn't she switch the living room and dining room? It makes no sense to have the dining room so far from the kitchen!!
Why are the duplexes so dang small?? Yes I said duplex. A house here in the US does not have another home attached to it. Those are called duplexes here. Also, why are they so expensive for such a tiny space?
so the agent said ignore the fact that the back porch stairs have collapsed "just ignore the decor and put your stamp on it"?
I'm disappointed they didn't show the new back porch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!