We NEED to Sell This House | Unsellables FULL Episode | Susan and Bob
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- Bob and Susan’s reasonably priced, four-bedroom suburban home has been on the market for three weeks…And although they’ve had over 50 showings, they haven’t landed a single offer. The couple is baffled and frustrated…but not Sofie. She says the dated décor, bold color scheme, and cluttered interiors are to blame. What this house needs, she says, is to be dragged about twenty years into the present.
In order to transform the home from dated to sophisticated, Sofie comes up with a plan to declutter the space, neutralize the walls, and restyle the kitchen. Desperate to move on with their lives, Bob and Susan get on board from the start…And while Anthony and the team work their magic on the interiors, the couple learns the basics of real estate from Sofie. The results are dramatic…But will they be enough to seal the deal?
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That vivid blue actually makes the walls look like they're closing in on you.
Just goes to show that of 52 potential buyers, none of them have any imagination or common sense to take a bargain and change it with a few easy steps into what they might want themselves. Either that or they just want everything provided as they expect without any effort from themselves.
I hate that buyers never consider that they themselves can paint the dang walls! Lazy buyers!
@@jaspirita Lazy buyers? People are spending a lot of money on buying a new home. They don't want to spend more when they move in. Other buyers are happy to do fixer-uppers, but many want a house without having to sink more money into it.
@@trikywu Yes, lazy.
@@trikywu Agreed. There are different kinds of buyers. Some are fine with repainting and doing a little work, others aren't - for many reasons including health and physical mobility, age, job demands, etc. It doesn't make them lazy, they just have different needs/wants when they're looking for a house.
Keep in mind that this was during the financial crisis in 2008. Buyers had lots of options to choose from, so why would they buy something that requires work when there are lots of options that are ready to move into?
That home would be 800k+ now. Only 13 years later. Insane
I so wanted to know current value of the houses...
These realtors aren’t doing their jobs if they’re not having the sellers paint and declutter in the first place.
Hey I’m subscribed to you, strange seeing you here
Some people don’t listen to their agent, they said they’ve declutter the rooms and they looked
a hot mess. I would walk right back out the door…
i’d of liked to see the wall between living room & dining room either taken down or at least cut back about 6 feet, open it up more. i think was missed opportunity.
Structurally that would be expensive and time consuming. That is a bearing wall, so an engineering drawing, building permit, and a huge amount of work would put the time frame beyond reasonable for the show.
Agreed!
I too had feelings that the wall can be bought down n the rooms can be distinguished from floorings.. but i guess they also had to be in budget may be that is why..
Personally I absolutely love the blue dining room but I can see how it might be a bit much for most people. And even for buyers who are into very colorful rooms it might be easier to imagine the place in different colors when you start out with more of a "blank canvas"
Yes I liked the blue too.
I also liked the blue walls. In my own house, tho, I had crappy wood floors which I just can't afford to replace right now...so I painted them blue! 😂 Kept the walls, ceilings, furniture and area rug neutral. It turned out really well for just a tiny bit of money.
I'm glad that larger, open kitchens became a lasting trend. Multiple HUGE living spaces with a tiny, crammed, and closed-off kitchen just doesn't make sense to me!
I HATE open plan. By all means make a kitchen bigger if space permits, but don't take down the walls. I don't want to see the kitchen from the front door.
@@victorialine5984 I agree. If I see a kitchen from the front door, I walk right back out. I don't want smells and noises from the kitchen migrating throughout the living room. I do like bigger kitchens, but I like to be able to close them off, preferably with wide pocket doors and not barn doors.
Sophie is painting with white paint while wearing black. That takes courage.
Sharon, or stupidity.
You must be Sue. You must be Sofie.
How convenient that a camera crew was already in the house for this first meeting.
That poor bird is in such a small cage!!!
Why go through the pain in the ass of using rollers and brushes? Go to Home Depot (yes they existed in 08) and rent paint sprayers! Saves time and makes the job go a whole lot faster!
OMG sometimes I wonder if people are color blind with the color they put on their walls.
Love the dramatic blue wallpaper.
Too often we don't know if it sold, glad you notated it sold.
Nice brick home. People just don’t how to visualize how it would look with their own taste. Ridiculous
Why is the lovebird by itself in a tiny cage?!! The 22 year old needs to move out. And what’s up with the wall separating the sitting and family rooms? Tear it down.
That is a bearing wall. Big and expensive job that would take time.
@@michaeltutty1540 A. Do you know that for sure? B. A bearing wall can be pared down to just the supporting posts while knocking out the drywall in between.
What an improvement.
IDK why people what to paint brick. White has taken on a whole new meaning.
What I cannot understand for the life of me: one is buying a house for the structure. You are not buying a house with previous owners personal belongings. In NYC, when you buy a house or rent an apartment or house, you don't care about other people's personal belongings.
Amazing transformation Sophie of this house.
I hate that there solution is to paint over the natural brick and wood. It was gorgeous before. And if I was interested in this house I would be removing the paint, and that would talk me out of it.
Love the apples in the kitchen.
If that were my house that wall between the living rooms would be gone!
Buy a place with an apt for the daughter? She will never leave... lol
Maybe they don't want her to leave?
@Angel Bulldog really? My adult children live "with" me. We own a multi-family home. One child with grandchild lives upstairs, one child lives down stairs. Everyone is responsible for their own rent & utilities. We are close enough to see my granddaughter every day and help out, they are close enough to help out if something happens. Yet everyone has their own space and privacy.
@@steppy3736 omgoodness I wold totally love this. I have two adult sons that I never want them to leave. My brother and his son has lived with me on and off over the years. It's so beautiful having yr family with you.
@@vickiesmith3021 especially during the pandemic, having everyone together has been wonderful! My kids work from home. While my daughter works, I'm able to do remote learning with my granddaughter. My husband is disabled and my son is able to help care for him while I'm doing remote learning. Any other living arrangement and my husband and I would have been alone during the holidays. This works for our family. Everyone has their own living space but we're still together.
@@steppy3736 so happy for you. Sounds perfect.
Good lord this isn’t that bad really, as a buyer I could see the potential
It part of the fun. Putting your own personal touch.
Wait....they're selling their house to buy something to accommodate their ADULT CHILDREN?!? Seriously?
AllynHim, those adult children should be out on their own, at least the 22 year old. btw, I'm sure Sophie did a lot of painting white wearing a black outfit.
@@keepitsimple4629 I absolutely agree they should be out on their own. That's why I was flabbergasted that these parents are buying a house to accommodate them. Keep the old house and tell the adult children they have 90 days to start acting like grown-ups and find their own accommodations.
@@AllynHin Parents have coddled their children so, it makes it hard for them to get on their own. They think the world revolves around them. Like keeping 26 year olds on their parents' insurance plan.
to be fair - you don't know their story. while it could well be down to their own laziness and nothing more, they may have (invisible) disabilities or conditions which makes it unsafe for them to BE alone, not to mention living on their own
@@dqylight Oh come on. Did you watch the video? Those people are not disabled and if they did have some invisible affliction that made it so they couldn't live alone, you know the show's producer would have made a big sob-story about it to make the sale of the house more urgent. This is just parents coddling their kids thinking they're doing them a favor, when in fact, they're hurting their kids by not letting them be grown-ups.
They got rid of that gorgeous chandelier?
Was thinking the same thing!
Wow; The daughter is the spitting image of Mom!
Buyer should learn to look past the paint. Then they can get it at a lower price.
I agree with you but most people don't have a vision.
I did that with my house. It was painted atrocious colors. The master was a deep maroon and the master bath was mustard yellow. The whole house needed painted. It was all bad. It sat on the market with no offers and many price reductions. We came in and “low balled” and our offer was accepted. We got about a 40-50k discount. What I didn’t realize is how expensive painters are. To paint the walls and the kitchen cabinets with several quotes from painting companies we were looking at 12-15k. Yikes! That’s after we had to shell out all the down payment money and the money for moving across the country. When you buy a house already done, sure you’ll pay a higher price, but you don’t have to cough up the cash because it’s built in the price, it may increase the down payment a little but not the full amount (depending on loan program). I also didn’t realize how long it took. I had 2 toddlers and one in the oven. I was exhausted all the time. Having painters in and out was not fun. Then mid way through the job they flaked on me and just didn’t come back. I felt something was up when the night he left he came to me and asked for the full amount he was owed for the job a little aggressively. He said he needed to pay his guys and my job wasn’t supposed to take so long, mind you it was a 12k job, they had been there for 2 weeks but not every day and some days they’d show up at noon and leave at 3. They only worked one “full” day in that 2 weeks a few days they didn’t come at all. I was pregnant and sassy and told him no way. I felt like he had done about half so I’d pay him half of the balance so he could pay his guys. He argued that he had done more and needed more than half but I wasn’t budging I felt like 1/2 was generous. The painter said he had another job that needed to be done over the holiday weekend (it was the Thurs before Easter) he was doing a commercial job and that was the only time it could be done so he’d come to my house after. I never saw him again. I finished the work myself but with my small kids it took a full year. After all that Im not sure how eager I’d be to buy another house that needed cosmetic touches. Today my house is worth 100k more than we paid for it and that low price really helps our current equity but for the longest time it looked terrible, stressed us out and I was too embarrassed to have anyone over with the half painted rooms that it prevented me from meeting people and making friends.
@@parabellum1002 You just gotten a bad painter.
Even saving 50k off asking, and paying 15k is still worth it.
I can do all that work myself. So for me it would have just taken a couple weekends.
Its a matter of financing.
That's assuming the seller is willing to accept a lower price
Re-Painting would make a world of difference
Children in their 20’s living at home, not going to school?? Charge them rent and watch how quickly they leave the nest!
I always love most of the changes with this show but I actually prefer the old lighting fixture at (15:10) To me it is so retro that it is actually more cool than the one that they replaced it with.
I enjoy these shows and of course, I might do something a bit different, but it shows that decluttering and not being stuck on what you like can have a great effect.
2022 and I’m screenshooting the “before” cobalt blue walls now that pops of color are coming back in. 😂
Painting over the brick is a crime I swear to god
Not surprised it's hard to get rid of the apples. Red bleeds. And bleeds and bleeds. I once had to pain a wall black first in order to kill the red!
People don’t buy empty houses? They’re decor critics? I’d like to see the buyer’s homes. That would be an interesting twist.
It's an unreality show. I watch it for the remodel only. Look the people paint in stellar clothes and with no drop cloths lmao 🤣 why are all the rooms so skinny? In USA we have wide square rooms. No rectangle bedrooms. Oh yes put clean linings on bed that will surely sell the house lol lol
Painted woodwork makes me NOT buy a house.
Not sure why a 22 year old can't MOVE OUT!
Girl is 22. She either goes to college, gets a job or starts her own family. She does not need to live under parents supervision.
Why do people say "real-a-tor"? There's no "a" in between the
"l" and the "t" in "realtor".
Dolores Du Bois, I remember the day I realized I had been pronouncing "realtor" wrong for years lol. I am always glad to be corrected when wrong!!
They always use traditional furniture in these. It works but modern styles feel a bit more fresh.
DO NOT PAINT BRICKS.
Saul Goodman Are you a realtor by chance? Just wondering cause I'm trying to sell my house. I'm in the U.S. Thanks.
@@tammysims5164 I’m a lawyer. But for the right price, I’ll sell anything.
Dear Mr Goodman, I understand. I dislike intensely-bricks, so if I wasn’t replacing it with stone, I’d be ruining my resale value slightly because; strangely I love white brick 😑 what burns MY cookies is painted over woods, specifically ‘old’ wood. If all else fails, remove the paint-tedious yes, but doable. 🧐😎🙏🏻
Seriously, that fireplace was lovely with the exposed brick.
The woman reminds me a bit of Louise Fletcher
I would want the wall gone, but is probably structural. I hate galley kitchens, that for me is a deal breaker.
Me too! It could be designed to perfection but that kitchen was a big no
That hideous blue dining room had nothing to do with the early 90s and everything to do with terribly bad taste!
I think the slip covers on the couch are ugly! They missed the mark there.
Painting over a wallpaper?!?! Not good for the new home owners!
a BIT dated? They should have done all this prior to putting it up on the market...
what i would have done was get rid of that wall. its got to go. if i had to have the wall i would have but in large brown and ovel glass french doors so you can see one room from the other
That huge wall between the too-long dining room & living room is awful. Get rid of that & the space could have been arranged so much better with more light.
why? keep that wall ? its got to go !!
I'm sick & tired of the same episodes being uploaded!
Anybody else notice how they always blur out any artwork when they show the comparison houses? Why?
It's because showing an artwork (actual painting or print, not just "decor art" from winners or similar) is considered copying & distributing it - which breaks copyright law unless you have permission. So you can track down the artists for permission or just blur out which is a LOT cheaper. :-)
Does the presenter like any other accent color than green?
What will turn me away from a house immediately is if the rooms are all painted different colors.
i dont like it its flat no color oh well
Actually a nice house. Only seen 3 episodes and they were feral, disgusting mess. Came in my youtube feed. Havent watched it before.
These episodes are very out dated and old... 2008 ? Do you have new and current episodes. The colors and styles are now very outdated.
1980s house
The intro 😑😐
A lot of these vids are also shown on ABODE.. :( a little bit annoying...
I’m a guy guy. Lol
That kitchen update was ugly and I don't think they should have painted the fire place. I thought the red brick was pretty.
So did they sell the house after all the "fixes"....
Hi Tammy, yes, right at the end, during the credits, it's announced that the house was open for inspection and sold.
I stenciled the same apple border in my kitchen- early 90's!!
@@marystrenke3050 Me too! I even went as far as to stencil the inside of my kitchen cabinets with apples on the liner paper! Lol!
I didn't liked this episode
Three grown children still living at home? Why? One's age at 22 is given but maybe all 3 could share an apt and let the parents get a break from the overcrowding. Five adults in the galley kitchen at the same time? Um, no. And why all the references to 2008 -- are these "content creators" really that out of date?
This is an older tv show. I love watching even the older episodes
wow, you have to be really thick not to realize that it's a show and episode from 2008
@@roocknrollqueen And some commenters are so thick as to miss the point of the prior comment altogether, no matter the age of the original episode.
I was looking to see if anyone noticed the 3 grown children. Not to many noticed or cared. It shows how we have come to accept less from our children. Yes, I know maybe they are going to school ,etc. Still the parents are selling their home to accommodate grown children. Looking for a basement apartment for the grown daughter.
@@beckishelton7155 I'm not sure when in the year this episode was filmed, but in 2008 in the US there was a housing market crash. The economy was very, very tough for a while there and there weren't as many economic opportunities for young people.