Selling Our Home to Opendoor: UPDATE

, , , 3 Comments

Our old home is finally up on Opendoor’s website! And it’s currently listed for $26,000 MORE than they paid us for it. And I don’t care! lol I’m out of that house and so happy with my new home and still very happy to have sold it to them at the price we did. In addition, just because they list it for that amount, doesn’t mean they’ll actually get it – it does seem overpriced for the area.

If you missed the first post about selling to Opendoor, GO HERE.

As far as the updates completed (or not) this is what I noticed from the limited pictures:

  • repainted all interior walls from very bright and colorful to gray (including over the vents and one fire alarm)
  • it seems like the also repainted all the trim white but it’s hard to tell from the photos
  • they put the unfinished cabinet doors back up in the kitchen on top of the sanded and stripped cabinet casing – they did not repaint or refinish these cabinets so 1/3 of the kitchen is white from when I was painting it and 2/3 are still the old brown with the old hardware and 1/4 of the cabinet box is sanded
  • they put back up two white cabinet doors but did not have the new hardware (because they told me not to leave it) so two of the white cabinet doors have the old hardware
  • surprisingly, they left the fridge! Many of the Opendoor houses we viewed were missing the fridge, washer and dryer (I don’t know about the washer and dryer as they weren’t included in the pics)
  • They removed and closed up the dog door as well as replaced about 2 feet of missing trim
  • They put the bathroom linen closet and 3rd bedroom closet doors back in (we left those)
  • strangely, they removed all the blinds and curtain rods
  • they did nothing to the floors and it was clear in some of the pics that the floor is still beat up in some places (we didn’t know how to take care of wood floors at the time)
  • They left the 3/4 painted turquoise chandelier in the dining room
  • they didn’t even remove the baby lock attachments which are on the outside of the cabinet doors in the guest bathroom
  • they did however, remove the wallpaper in two of the bathrooms and repaint upon closer inspection, they did NOT remove the wallpaper in the downstairs half bath, but simply painted over it. So I suspect they did the same in the upstairs guest bath
  • they also removed all the shower rods
  • In terms of the exterior, I didn’t see any new landscaping and we had painted the outside and replaced the roof only a year ago so they didn’t repaint or re-roof
  • they did replace a few fence boards that were in desperate need of replacing
  • and they, sadly, removed the 3 rain barrels we had installed but they did not then redo the gutters to reach the ground again, so the gutters end about 4.5 feet off the ground

And that’s it! I am happy to close this chapter and go enjoy my new house – au revoir old house!