Michael Roebuck's Blog

Some of you may remember my post titled, "You've Come A Long Way, Baby." I rambled about us selling our house and some of the problems I was having doing some research. Well, I'm sorry to say that the house is still for sale. I've not been very pleased with the work my Coldwell Banker realtors have done and asked them to remove my house from the market and I might go to another realtor. Before removing, they wanted to talk with me and justify why I should stay with them. I agreed.

I have two Coldwell Banker realtors working for me. They are both well aware that we want to sell the house fast. We have an accepted offer on another house and want this one gone ASAP. I believe we have followed virtually every bit of advice they gave to make our house more appealing. Including removing all our personal photographs and anything that "personalizes" the house. Try explaining to 5 children why we removed all the pictures and replaced them with fake plants and other foo-foo decorations. Our house is a well lived in house, not some uppity grandma's where you can't touch anything.

Anyway, the Coldwell Banker realtors came to my office and pleaded their case. I'm not very pleased but I agreed to stay with them a bit longer and even ended up lowering the price. I want results!

Before leaving, my Coldwell Banker Realtors had a great idea to help sell the house. They wanted to have some T-Shirts made up with a picture of the house on it. I don't know what I was thinking, or smoking, but I agreed to have the family wear t-shirts at the upcoming 4th of July fireworks celebration. Lot's of people to see the shirts. I must have had some sense because I told them not to make me one.

The T-shirts were delivered Monday.



Would you wear something like this? If I was thinking fast enough, I should have suggested my Coldwell Banker Realtors families wear the t-shirts. I did manage to get the family together for a family portrait.



I even got my daughter to pose for a single shot. No real reason for this other than I might need it when she gets older and I need pictures to embarrass her.



Here's the money shot. How could you not buy a house from this beautiful baby!



Anyway, who would have guessed that the secret weapon to selling a house is in T-shirts! Now if I can get the family to wear the t-shirts everywhere they go this house is as good as sold!

Have any of you sold a house? Is it easier with T-Shirts? Any other ideas that we are missing? If any of my readers have a secret tip to selling houses, please let me know. I'll pass them on to my Coldwell Banker Realtors.

Now, Buy My House!!