Annoying people

Ok, let's just start with the fact that I am watching entirely too much TV. I admit it.

So I am watching Buy Me tonight and the couple is selling their house because they're getting a divorce. But the house isn't selling because it's priced way too high and is completely cluttered and crappy looking. But the lady is pissed at the realtor because she doesn't think he's doing enough to sell her house, even though he's told her the price is too high and it's cluttered with too much crap. There are two dining room sets in the house, for crying out loud, but they won't clean out the rooms or paint over the bright green paint in the main portion of the house (see bathub pictures for color comparison). Additionally, there are foundation problems, but she won't pay to have them fixed because the money is in reserve to pay the taxes.

But like everyone else, the couple is mortgaged up to the eyeballs and can't drop the price on the house because they need the money, even though no one in their right mind will pay what they want for a house with that many issues. Then they finally get an offer, $48K below their asking price (which is what other realtors are saying the house is worth in that location anyway), and they won't take it. They finally drive off their agent, who quits in disgust.

On a similar show two days ago, the couple is selling to move to another city that has cancer clinics with doctors AND alternative medicine options under the same roof, as the wife has very agressive cancer and believes she needs both traditional and alternative medicines to cure it. But for someone who keeps saying "selling this house could save my life", she sure doesn't want to clean out their weird crap or lower their price at all, even when it is discovered that there is a toxic waste dump only 800 meters from the house. The government tests confirm that no toxic waste has seeped into the well, but still, would you buy it? When it's already overpriced? And completely cluttered and 80s-looking? I know I am supposed to feel bad for someone who is probably going to die soon, but when she keeps saying that she isn't taking care of herself because of the stress of selling the house and then rejects THREE perfectly good offers, I just can't help but not like her.

People, listen to your realtors. They know what they're talking about. Clean out your weird, ugly crap and do some market research on the price. You can't base a price on what you think you need to get out of the house. Prices are based on the market and what the house is worth in the location it's in. Not on how much you are mortgaged at or how much money you think you need to get out of the house. LISTEN TO YOUR REALTORS, PEOPLE.