What Will I Do If I Can't Sell My House? | Unsellables FULL Episode | Ruth
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- Ruth’s four-bedroom home has been on the market for two and a half months…And they haven’t received a single offer. The home is in a great location, and priced low for a hot market, says Sofie…But its cluttered interiors, heavy window coverings, and hot pink accents are a major turn-off. The busy and battered kitchen is also a liability. The house doesn’t need much work, she says, just a few minor refurbishments to let its best features shine through.
In order to appeal to a broader market, Sofie devises a two-day, $3,500 plan to de-clutter the house, neutralize the color scheme, and freshen up the kitchen and bedrooms. Ruth says she’s getting desperate to sell…But can Sofie get her to buy into the concept of staging? While Anthony and the team work their magic on the interiors, Ruth get a crash course in real estate 101. Will their efforts pay off? Or will Ruth get stuck with a mortgage she can’t afford?
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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.
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"If you dont get an offer in a couple months" Yikes! Wish I had known and wasnt so patient. It took us 9 months to sell our home. It was a great home but our real estate agent was going through a divorce and kind if checked out and moved to another country and didnt tell us. She kept pretending she was doing stuff and holding open houses but was lying. We had already moved out of state due to the military. Once we found out what happened, we switched agents and sold in under a month. 👍So make sure your agent is truly working for you as well
After watching a few episodes I begin to think that the main problem not getting your house sold is that buyers are simply too uncreative to imagine the house empty and white.
I feel like a lot of people have trouble visualizing spaces. I’m not bad at it, but I do know folks who can’t use that abstract sense of imagination.
Honestly. Despite the poorly decorated space, i would consider buying this house. Its very big and obviously has great potential.
I agree, but don’t think remember when they bought it?!
It isn’t just that. I am good at visualization and don’t mind the work, but a lot of young professionals are used to having things just as they want when they want. Or just don’t want to deal with the work. Move in ready is their thing.
Every show: "I don't understand why my house hasn't sold!"
Has Pepto Bismol pink walls, fucshia carpeting, clutter everywhere, and old-lady knickknacks on every surface.
And lazy ass know nothing incapable home owners who don’t want to lift a frigging finger ..... pathetic.
I read ‘old lady knickers on every surface’ 😂
Did it make you feel better to be insulting?
@@ladyluck5248 You might want to see somebody for that cruelty and anger problem you have 🤨
@@dawittywats1934 so you may want to get off your ass and help lazy people who can’t lift a finger ..........you’re probably one of them.
Wish they would bring this show back. Love seeing the before and after!
me tooooo I'm totally binge watching over here lol
Me three! :) Love this show 💖🏚🏠
What a wonderful family! I love seeing how other people from other cultures and countries live. It must of been a very full and busy house but also filled with lots of family love.
So where did all the family members sleep when half the beds were removed?
Looks great; cabinet hardware in the center of the door bothers me a lot.
Yeah I noticed that too. I was thinking about how awkward it would be to open the cabinets that way.
They painted, it's so easy to fill the holes in with some putty and drill new ones! I can't with it either
I think the plan to change the position was tossed after they had to carpet over vinyl.
Yeah, looks weird and awkward
Same. that was horrible
Ok ten people in three bedrooms would be so stressful!
I know! That’s illegal in the US. Only two occupants per room. We used to own rental property, and had to kick people out, because they had too many people living there,
Only one bathroom?!
@@daynad8104 I think it’s a little different with it being the same family, rather than strangers for a rental
I thought it was 4 bedrooms.
I want to like this show, but goodness gracious the camera work makes me dizzy
Yes! Even when I first saw this program and my brain was younger (~2008), I couldn't stand the constant edits and the panning camera shots.
Poor Portuguese woman: when they first told her about painting those tiles! It’s like murder to them.
Like painting wood and brick are to so many people who seem to think it is sinful to do so. I love a mix of good natural wood and painted woods.
What is up with the camera spinning and zooming? Are you trying to make your watchers sick?
Burgundy. Mauve. Lilac. Pink. So many houses from the 90s, early 2000s decorated in those colors and they look awful at resale. The brown color of the wood furniture clashes as well.
This whole show is about people who haven’t really come to grips with the fact that they won’t be living in their house anymore.
Love these shows and their more realistic budgets compared to today’s.
I wonder how much those homes are worth now, four years later. I honestly don't know how anyone can afford to buy a house these days.
@@ElveeKaye This show is from 2008.
You bit that cookie and put it back on the plate.
Yeah... that’s what I was thinking...right after she said cleanliness is next to godliness...lol.
I was looking for this comment.
I don't think a half eaten cookie is a good selling point.
Right! Who does that...ewww.
Monster!!!
What a terrible paint job in the kitchen. It's so lazy and ugly to see painted hinges.
FACTS.
I thought I saw that too..ugh!#
This series sure does expose so many mistakes homeowners make. At the root of all those mistakes and attitudes is this: The moment you decide to sell your house and you put it on the market, at that very instant, realize and accept that it is no longer your home; it's now over. You are living in a hotel or a house that you rent temporarily. It's not yours any more. It belongs to the public, so get out of the way. Make it work for the public or the market in your area. You are planning on moving so go ahead and start packing up; move stuff to a storage unit; get on with it. You don't have to go to the extent you see in this video, but use what you learn here to make your house work for the task at hand which is to SELL it.
At least the house is clean. Beautiful Portuguese family!
CLUTTER AND RED AND PINK ARE NOT SELLING POINTS FOR ANY HOME.
...Forgive me, but WHY would you even take on a mortgage you can only afford with the help of your child? That's a massive burden to put on them and keeps them chained to the house because they might not be able to afford their own place. I'm happy the daughter was able to find space for herself and her family and can still go and visit her parents.
I love my family, but in an instance where five people were sharing a hotel room for three months, I about lost my mind, even cussed out my mom, something I'd never before done and absolutely sounds unfathomable today. But I hated living under each other like that so much, especially as an introvert that needs solitude (the bathroom was the only place of privacy and you of course couldn't be in there for long). Ten people in a house like that, you know everyone is sharing rooms. I couldn't handle it.
Given that this was filmed around 2008, it might have been due to an adjustable rate mortgage where the interest increased so much that they could no longer afford the payments
@@jethro4453 True.
Hmmm, that’s exactly the sort of arrangement that would make most people feel quite anxious and escalate tensions between people. I totally get how upsetting it would be.
Why would they cover the window with furniture? Natural light is so much better!
Space. They had no space
Wondering when these were filmed, you’d be asking 900,000 for that home in Toronto this year
Apparently this episode is from 2009
@@inesolujic2534 thank you lol I was wondering
The fish tanks on this show need some help, cuz dang, it looks sad.
Lady had her house looking like a grim museum before.
Good description
Those pinks are the thing of nightmares. I was subjected to a room in those awful pinks and I swear, I feel like I have ptsd from them. The tiles in the kitchen are cute, but definitely not a selling point.
This is over 10 years ago. Little Italy in Toronto. These houses go for over $1million now.
I always get a kick out of people thinking these prices are high. These are low compared to today’s prices in Toronto or Vancouver.
I have to say my freaky germ aversion kicked in when I saw the designer take a bite of the cookie and then put it back on the plate with other cookies that will be served to an unsuspecting public. 😱😂🤣 Of course, this was filmed prepandemic.
pre pLandemic
@@wendywright5486 You a flat-earther too, Wendy? Anyone in your family/friends get sick/die yet?
@Drunk vegan girl.... Yes.
@@drunkvegangal8089 yes they had what used to be called the flu 3 over 70 &they lived to tell about it!it's a miracle....200 seniors in my building over 55 only death since March was a suicide by a guy who was dependent on the day room &activities for companionship...
@@wendywright5486 Perhaps your opinion will change when someone you love DOES get sick and die. This virus, regardless of conspiracy theories about it's origin, is killing people. Worldwide. Despite you managing to not be affected yet. th-cam.com/video/QdpSgEQKVNE/w-d-xo.html
It was really hard to sell our old house in Britain and I think it just needed a little update as there was lots of dark furniture and we had wallpapered walls. My parents had spent lots of money renovating it and turning the attic into a second floor so they were disappointed when we sold it for less than we bought it for. Updating it would of been an easy fix but we had already moved to New Zealand so we couldn’t do anything. Also didn’t help my bedroom had blue walls with flowers and butterflies and I would not let it be painted over.
There's a way of advising about design and clutter without insulting the owner. "All the windows are covering the light. It's so dark in here. What, are you a family of vampires or something?"
"I'm going to go around and burn all the curtains and let the light in."
I mean, really.
I liked every change but that kitchen! I would have kept the tiles as a back splash, put in an elegant table an chair set but simple...that one looks like IKEA or WALMART. The green has got to go! Not everyone loves green...white above looks great with a light grey but green...yuck. That kitchen looks like a retro kitchen in a different home altogether. Rooms need continuity.....If I bought it...the kitchen would be completely redone.
This kitchen make over is probably one of the worst I have EVER seen
I feel like flipping/remodeling has become much more popular in the past few years. People really seem to love renovating homes like this on their own.
Painted cabinets and painted tiles in a half-million-dollar house? No thanks. Even the outside is ugly with all those little fences.
Painted cabinets are often seen in expensive homes now. I personally prefer it. As for painted tiles, if you are doing an inexpensive cosmetic job, there are paints that work on tiles and look better than the originals, though tiles are certainly the way to go in real renovations.
I could never live with all that family!!!!
Same. I'd have a nervous breakdown from the lack of privacy and quiet.
I’d be gasping for peace and quiet!
Poor fish tank.
Love this show but my god the camerawork gives me motion sickness! Chill, cameraman, chill!!!
Way too many things and color theme are difficult to feel comfortable in.
I’m shocked they didn’t move the handles on the kitchen cupboards to the corners, and I hate when they paint over the hinges. Don’t mind that they painted over the tile. Otherwise, not a bad makeover.
Oh no, take the hinges off the kitchen cabinets before painting it! Get a drill, it takes no time at all. And the handles in the middle of the doors... so bad. Would have been great to fix that before painting. Why do their kitchens always make me think bathroom rather than kitchen? Not a fan of the two tone kitchen,
Home owner: “why won’t anyone buy house??!!”
Also home owner: *decorates as if blues clues owned a crack house*
I've never seen so much tack in Portugal. 🤔 But then again, I'm not Portuguese. Portuguese people, pleas enlighten me. Is this typical decor in Portugal?
Did anyone notice the kitchen cabinet handles in the middle of the cabinet, never seen that before
In our house they are. It is odd and makes cabinet corners very dirty.
It was a trend back in the seventies. Horrible!
Ugly and awkward. Has a "what's wrong with this picture" vibe....
@@daisyd392 well yeah coz human nature grab the corner no matter what, and it’s ugly weird first thing ANYONE notices and immediately comments as diplomatically as possible ‘wow, that’s different’ 😝😝😝😝
@@lindabuck2777 i can't help but grab the corner especially of the upper cabinets because i am short and cant reach the knows in the center. Darn short people.
Absolutely love this series! I’ve missed it. Keep it going!
I am definitely a vampire because my windows are all covered....do nOT understand the concept of being a show for the neighbors and passers by. however, it is sad to see in these shows how they have their houses on the market for months....what the heck did their agents do for them??? any good agent will make suggestions for boosting sale potential
People can’t really see into houses very well in the daytime from outside, and I close mine at night. I lived in a house with a huge window pretty near the street, but I liked to look out and see the woods right across from me and let in light. I got composite blinds that looked like painted wood and could angle them to let in light, let me see out, but not let passerby’s see in. Another way to manage that is sheer curtains in the daytime with heavier curtains at night. Let the sunshine in and don’t close out the world unless where you live is actually ugly or dangerous !
@@tonibauer2949 hmmm...i grew up in New York City so....I think my upbringing and my affinity for shows that show the dark sides of people are definitely affecting my perspective on this topic...lol. however, if an agent suggested something whilst showing my house for sale, I would absolutely do it. at least while I am expecting people to go thru my house. the goal is to sell afterall. i like your suggestions!
Screaming that she covered up those amazing tiles. Nooo!
I actually liked the large table in the kitchen. Showed off the size. Nice Reno of such a small cost.
No dagger look but hard for owners to change what they are used too. The updates were great. Glad it sold. What did they do with stuff until they got another house?
Maybe put it in a storage unit. I always wonder where people sleep when the stylers get rid of beds!
@@deborahgate965 stay with friends or relatives I guess or hotel. Smile
I love this show! They should bring it back!
Been binging this channel. Surprised how little interest they get. I have redone a few houses, sold on first time viewer. I would think a pro would have better luck than me.
The prices of these houses is INCREDIBLE! They are so EXPENSIVE! My husband builds much nicer houses and they sell for almost half! I guess that is the difference between Toronto and Tennessee.
Omg! Tennessee is no comparison to the city of Toronto. I live in rural Ontario Canada and it's no comparison to Toronto.
Canadian dollars!
This show was filmed in 2008-2009. Prices have gone way way up since then, so the gap between Toronto and Tennessee would be even larger, even taking the exchange rate into account.
The asking price for this house ($429,000) won’t even get you a one bedroom condo, you’d get a tiny 300-400 sq foot studio at best. A house of this size in that area would go for a minimum of 1.1-1.2 million, even unrenovated.
Real estate has gone bonkers in Toronto and most of Canada’s large cities.
15:38 --- why didn't they fix that pillow?!?! it would have been so easy!!
17:31... uhhh the curtains?!?!
I agree!
It's either do it or loose it to the bank...seems like a no brainer
Homeowners are always "We don't want to change the pink/purple/black/acid yellow walls! We like it this way!"
When prospective buyers are looking for a house, crazy colors do not make them think "Let's throw away our furniture that clashes with this color & buy new furniture to fit the previous owner's taste!"
When you put your house on the market, does your IQ automatically drop? I don't understand it.
I think the kind of people that have brightly painted walls simply find it hard to imagine that someone buying a house would just live with whatever neutral color the previous owner used instead of immediately repainting everything in their favorite colors. Like I personally don't understand why someone would choose not to buy a home based on something that's easily fixed with a fresh coat of paint. Painting the walls right before someone else is very likely to paint them again seems like a huge waste of time and paint to me but apparently it is a very profitable investment for the seller.
@@inspiredby624 I think that a lot of buyers scrape together every dime they have in order to buy a house, so they don't have money left over to buy paint & paint supplies right away....which means if their new house has paint colors they hate, they have to live with it until whenever they can afford to buy that stuff. It wouldn't be a deal breaker for me, but apparently it is for a lot of people.
I love this show. Sophie is amazing. I want the wow factor in my house.
She wasn't giving 'daggery' looks as much as responding to being talked down to...
Most of these are only so-so.
@1996freddie
Lol, she lacks taste...
She was being explained gentrification. I’d be daggery looking too.
@@ccaro4003
Cut it with socio-political crap.
@@b_uppy You don't have to like it, but it absolutely exists.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley
You replied to the wrong person, I think...
The “before” was the most hideous decor I ever saw. Every room was a nightmare. The “after” looked great - but where do the children sleep now?
Probably in rollout beds on the floor. The bedding can be put under the parent's bed.
OMG who puts a fish tank on a kitchen counter???
Ugh, why oh why do people think baby poop green is pretty? An improvement? Not so much. I'd have rathered had the wood than that green puke color. Greys, puke greens, and "modern colors" not. Though it lightened it up for sure... it still didn't make the kitchen better.
I'm torn on the color (and I don't have a baby so I'm calling it olive green, lol). It was okay. I'd probably paint over it. I like it slightly more than the original cabinets, but maybe I'd stain the cabinets to make them darker or paint them black or grey. I like a sleek look.
That original wood was cheap and ugly looking. I like painted cabinets and they are often used in upscale houses now. Some of us love green in home decor, some hate it, but it was very in style when this was done.
In a decade or 2 the Everything-Is-Gray/Grey look is going to look so dated. Like the half-round windows they installed in every entryway above the front doors- so 80s/90s.
@@rkr5106 yeah. It never did fly at my house, any more than brown on brown with a little orange and avocado green did in the 1970’s. I realize homes need to be neutralized for selling and have done that twice, but I find both dreary, as I did the beige and white of the late 90’s and early 2000’s. But it was better than the horrid dusty rose and faded turquoise in 80’s decor. The. Worst.
@@rkr5106 Indeed!! But one thing has never changed until now... no one ever thought grey was an en-vogue color, vibrant color in every culture embrace in homes, on walls... this mono-chrome in our home is a pathetic attempt to entice people to believe that the best place to live is in cyber space - where colors abound and are neon and vibrant, where here in the real world all is drab and grey. Puh... we would not know what color is if not for the REAL world that no movie, game or computer could ever invent or replicate. At this point, I'd rather paint my walls baby poop green than be part of the "hip and trendy" mono chrome world all the "experts" are saying is the future. Colors were born in a real world created by God, where the people He created can GO OUT and walk in it, breathe its air, feast their eyes upon its beauty... not in some man made computer where one can have a virtual experience that's not the least bit real no matter what it feels like. Put color on your walls people... celebrate the world we've been given and tell the experts to get in line with reality.
How much did it go for Sofie?
Why are the handles in the middle of the cabinets 8-[
1970s trend
I wish they mentioned Toronto!
So much junk!!! So many people!!
Omg the fish tank! Needs to be on r/shittyaquariums
I can’t believe she is in the kitchen pointing out the stuff on the shelves and standing next to that gross fish tank on the kitchen counter and doesn’t say anything about it. Wtf
I know! Those poor fish..
Is a fish tank in a kitchen normal? 😅 I mean, it obviously is gross because it wasn’t being maintained but even if it was clean, I still personally wouldn’t like a fish tank on my kitchen countertop. It makes me feel gross, plus it’s using up space.
Okay, revamping the rooms for viewing makes total sense. But where are the kids sleeping that were sharing the master bedroom? They don't give you all the details of how to do this sort of thing yourself.
Tacky! Glad they got some help!
This may be your most extreme transformation! WOW!
Yuck, fish tank in kitchen😝
And gross one too!
When people think they actually have good taste
I wonder if I have good taste when I decorate my house?🤔
@@tomokokanehisa8569 I have my taste, but I don't think it's particularly good! However, considering there are dozens of makeover shows how is it that people don't watch a few and take ideas away? And why not start packing when you decide to sell and store stuff!?
It might've been good taste years ago or good taste in their Portuguese culture.
It doesn't matter if you have "good" taste or not....until you try to sell.😉
Decorate however makes you happy, but don't expect it to make anyone else happy.
There were obvious issues that they should have known were problematic though: the abundance of statues, the color of the walls (!), the color and condition of the carpet. Oh, and that damaged kitchen countertop!
Just remedying those things would have made a big improvement.
I never considered the option of painting tile. Good to know, in case I ever run into tile that I don't like and don't want to rip out.👍🏻
People can decorate how they enjoy. I put stuff in storage when I sold my last house and knew it had to be neutral 31 years ago. Interest rates for mortgages were in the double digits and homes in our area were sitting on the market for a year. Mine sold in 3 weeks for the asking price. The house we had bought had been on the market for over a year with multiple price drops. The real estate agent said it was because there was a 2 year old child, but the parents had divorced and there was a live in nanny. I had my 8 year old house that my 5 year old had been born and raised and it was in better shape than the one 2 year old house we bought which had carpet stains in every room, hardwood molding which had the varnish gone and several sinks leaking. We were handy and able to repair it ourselves after we gave it a thorough cleaning before we moved in. The buyers for our house told us that ours was left so clean that they didn’t bother, as I left it the way I would want to walk into.
Never overpluck your eyebrows
Watching these episodes is giving me flashbacks of the mid 2000s and it's terrifying
I love that kitchen tile. Hope they don’t take it down.
Isn't that funny? I hate them! Personal taste is a weird and wonderful thing 😄
They painted over the tile.
Yes wouldn't life b boring if we all liked the same things!?!?
Ruth should be grateful they are helping her to sell the home.
I liked that eagle & if was porcelain that was worth a good bit. It was probably resin but even then with the detail and size it is still a great piece and deserves the commanding location it was in.
would not want to buy a house that was renovated by these people ......how long is painted tile going to look good ?
This is the most Portuguese house I’ve seen hahahah
Can’t see what the issue is. 🤣
The only thing I take from.sll this is that houses look great without people..or their possessions .. people do need some things. It's difficult.. but I know the point is to get houses sold. I'm trying to use some suggestions.
I thought her bedroom with the dark curtains, big furniture and childs bed actually looked larger than the comp house bedroom they said looked larger lol
I always wonder if some people actually know their house is listed...
That's a beautiful house before omg. I'd buy that immediately
They ruined those beautiful tiles.
The tiles were ugly.
As they say each to their own! Life would b boring if we all thought the same!
My thought exactly!!! I'd have given them a good cleaning. Painted walls a cool med blue or gray & installed a nice marbly laminated countertop in a coordinated color
Very dated-painted looks much better!
She always chastises people for having curtains even when they are sheers but then puts up other curtains just to say she changed something smh make it make sense.
My windows look like that... of course I have sensitivity to lights and sounds, and get migraines. So for me its a bit of a medical necessity
Of course you do....
isn't that more typical for vampires than werewolfs? ;)
Excellent outcome.
where will the kids sleep now, as they have got rid of the beds?
WHY do you blur out pictures on the walls?
copyright
That was really gross "taking a bit out of color and putting back" . Gross, gross, gross!
Sometimes I wonder if these people forget they want to leave these houses? They’re selling them. Nobody wants their junk.
I love the kitchen tbh. It's vibing
What’s terrifying are those brows!!!🙀
Sooooo why couldn't they just take the tiles off....
It would take a lot more time, effort and money
Repairing the plaster underneath would be time consuming and cost a good bit more money.
Ugh they painted the cabinet hinges.
very good
But how do they live there, til sold?
Why do all the curtains always look sloppy and way too long, in every episode? 😬
Buyer have to look pass the clutter. It will not look like that when they move in.
The issue is that looking pass decor and clutter is hard to do. Imagine buying a used car with the owners taste: fuzzy dice, pepto bismal pink color, huge whitewall tires, a long scratch down the side compliments of an emotional girlfriend and full of the owners trash. I don't know about you but I wouldn't make a huge investment in something that I have to immediately update to "get it up to its potential." So anything that obstructs my view, I would just pass on.
@@luvsupreme cars are different.
It's hard to see anything else when clutter is everywhere.
Not every buyer is able to do that. You are the seller, you have to accommodate the market because the buyer isn’t going to change.
It's not just the clutter, having to repaint every room and change the carpet would turn me off, especially the dark walls which are harder to cover.
Never shows the bathrooms...
Yes, they did. They even mentioned the shag carpet.
So that house is split in 2?
Do you mean her house and the neighbors? Mine is like that. I think it's called a duplex.
What part of world is this neighborhood?
Toronto
I saw Clinton Avenue, so somewhere on the College and Bathurst area of Toronto. This neighbourhood is officially known as The Annex, but is unofficially Little Italy.
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Music tooo loud!