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So I was staging a house with a weird smell for like 3 weeks
I kept this condo in Tampa on the market for a month with zero bites, and the only feedback was 'something smells off.' I was going nuts trying to find it, cleaning vents, baking cookies, the whole bit. The tip off came when the owner's kid visited and said 'why is the cat box in the kitchen?' I had been using this fancy, scented litter in a decorative box I thought was a planter. I was so focused on making things look nice, I didn't even think a buyer would open it. I had been showing a house that smelled like fake lavender and cat pee this whole time, lmao. Anyone else ever miss something super obvious that turned buyers off?
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bell.jessica5d ago
Honestly, how did you not smell the cat pee yourself after a while? I get nose blind to my own house, but staging for weeks? That's wild. @schmidt.iris is right, that combo sounds brutal. Makes me wonder what else we all walk right past. Did you ever have a moment where you almost opened that box to put, like, a kitchen tool in it and then just didn't?
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schmidt.iris5d ago
Okay, the "decorative box I thought was a planter" part got me... you never opened it? For three whole weeks? I have to say, that's a special kind of focus right there. I can just picture people politely smiling while getting hit with that lavender and pee combo... no wonder you had zero bites. That's honestly a legendary mix-up.
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rose_clark815d ago
My aunt had a fancy soap dish in her guest bathroom for a decade. Turns out it was the lid to a sugar bowl. We get an idea in our heads about what something IS and then we just stop seeing it. I bet half the junk drawers in America have a "decorative item" that's actually a missing piece to something else. The brain is weird like that.
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