New carpet can make a difference!

But why is it that they all want to "wait and see"?  In Summit County, Colorado, home to several ski resorts, we have lots of ski condos and vacation homes.  Many of them were built in the 1970s and 80s and there are a lot that have just had personal use from their owners, with no rentals.  That often means that the dark brown carpet that was all the rage in 1979 is still in wonderful condition!  Why replace perfectly good carpet?  We do have a few perfectly good harvest gold refrigerators here and there too, but the carpet is much more common. 

I have many stories that I tell my Sellers about instances where a condo had 20 or 30 showings, but no Buyers until the Seller replaced the carpet.  Then it was gone in a week.  Why is it that no one feels that it will apply to them; that their condo just has so many other good things going for it that the carpet won't matter?  I just had it happen again, but now the new carpet is in (Realtor beige) and it should sell fairly quickly.  They even took down the wallpaper that was held up with thumbtacks and painted the walls, so I think we are good to go! 

It is priced at $269,900, in Wildernest, (near Silverthorne) within 20 minutes of 3 major ski areas.  It is a great place for someone to use as a second home, and it has new carpet!