Real Estate Dictionary
To help buyers understand the catchy phrases agents and sellers often use while describing their real estate for sale.
Quaint= uninhabitable
Cozy= very very small
Expandable floor plan= smaller than cozy
Needs TLC= very quaint
New Kitchen Cupboards= please don’t look at the floor
Light and airy = broken windows
View= nice look at neighbor’s yard
Panoramic Ocean view= may mean you have to stand on the toilet and look out the window with a mirror.
Priced for quick sale= $20K over the last neighborhood sale
Wonderful neighbors= lots of children ready to sell you cookies and raffle tickets
Dry Ocean roar= built close to the freeway
Best schools= means they give out those bumper stickers that say my boy is an award student at ABC school
Needs a buyer with vision= better yet one without
A Seattle agent has been collecting a few from his neighborhood – and yes definitions will vary with geography
Here is a link to his very fun interpretations
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/122436.asp
As far as being geographic specific. Say your house for sale is on Mt Baker and is 10 miles from the closest road. You would want to advertise that it is a cross country skier’s dream house. Although among agents I have met from everywhere and every country they all know that Charming means it needs remodeling and that it is quaint.
