In the real estate world, a buyer or a seller can easily get confused with the words of an ad or a real estate agent. Some of you may have heard this already or some may not. Here are a few words to take note of as enumerated by Domain. They just might come handy whether you are selling or buying a home:
Renovator's delight = You'll need to replace 98 per cent of the stumps.
Full of character = The previous owners gave every room a different wallpaper border, which they stamped in primary colored poster paint using cut-up potatoes.
Funky details = One or all of the following: bronze tiles in the bathroom, carpet in the toilet, conversation pit, built-in bed-head featuring AM/FM radio.
Courtyard = Small bricked space between two walls that conjures up memories of Edwardian zoo enclosures.
Modern = The previous owner installed a fancy kitchen tap in 1998, so we're upping the price by 150 per cent.
Cinderella awaits her prince = No joke for this one, I just legitimately saw it once. The house looked like it had survived a tornado.
Lounge room with air-conditioning = Dust-covered 1960s-era air-con unit that has a cloth-covered power cord dangling like a noose.
Quirky = A mid-1980s DIY renovation that apparently involved dropping an entire house on the back of the existing building, like Dorothy's arrival in Oz, so that when you look out the bathroom window, you see a brick wall.
Adorable = Every room is painted pastel pink
Cosy = Tiny.
Snug = Even tinier.
Study or second bedroom = Great for people who enjoy fantasizing about sleeping in their own coffin.
Must see = No photograph could ever hope to capture the crushing existential dread you will feel upon entering this rhomboid-shaped, mint-green gloss-painted living room, and we want to take phone photos of your reaction.
