Putting in the extra work to explode the number of showings

One of the things I enjoy most about helping Sellers is knowing with confidence when I walk into a dated, cluttered, disaster of a home, that there are solutions available in my toolbelt to turn that house into a hot listing that receives 20 or more showings in the first weekend and multiple offers.

The Kroner family was recently referred to me by a good friend and top Realtor at the Oregon Coast who knows I love a good project and could help this family. After dealing with numerous medical challenges over the years, they decided it was time to close the chapter of their Beaverton home and move out to the coast for a more relaxing day-to-day.

The home is on a great lot and it has lots of very cool mid century features that were completely hidden by the clutter it was loaded with potential objections by would-be buyers. Here are some before shots:

Our goal was to remove everything from the home, clean it up, and remove as many of those potential objections with a limited budget.

We decided to focus on this scope of work:

• New roof
• Exterior paint
• Re-building a non-functional primary shower
• New quartz kitchen counters, kitchen sink, cooktop, and dishwasher.
• Painting all of the dated brown window and door trim throughout the home.
• Full landscape cleanup including removal of all of the debris in the yard and adding bark dust and wood chips
• Glazing an old hall bath tub to give it a fresh look.

Thanks to some great relationships that I have with some fantastic professionals, we were able to get the work completed quickly and for a reasonable investment from the Seller who currently owns the property outright.

As a side note, this Seller did have some funds available to invest in the project but for those that don’t, we have options available to have the work completed without any upfront cost from companies that will take payment out of the sale proceeds at closing.

After about a month of prepping the house, the house hit the market and was an instant hot listing with online viewings. We had 20 private showings in the first two days on market and our open house was very busy with about 18 groups through in a few hours.

Here are some of the listing photos. Full photo gallery here

Thanks to the following folks for their hard work to make this project a success:

Angel Castaneda with DCA Construction.

Denny Chavez Borja – Landscaper extraordinaire

Staci Byers with Ready To Sell Staging

Justin Jones with Jones Media Shop

Yascha Noonberg

Principal Broker | ADU Specialist | OR

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Consistently featured as one of the Top 50 Brokers in Portland. Certified Residential Investment Specialist "Yascha is absolutely an asset, not only to his clients, but his industry as a whole as an example of how REALTORS® should strive to conduct business." —Past client VISIT MY WEBSITE  I was fortunate enough to move to Portland in the 90s after growing up in Maryland and then attending college in Texas. My professional life started with owning and operating a music school and recording studio in SE Portland. Eventually I was drawn to real estate both as an investor and subsequently as a consultant to homebuyers and sellers as well as fellow real estate investors. My family and I have lived on both sides of the river, and we spend a lot of our down time at the coast in Manzanita. My real estate business and family keep me very busy but whenever possible I get out on the courts to compete in tennis leagues and tournaments, and I recently started playing Pickleball. I also mix in the occasional gig or young audiences performance with local jazz group Trashcan Joe.

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