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There are all kinds of articles out there giving advise of how to sell your home. But what if you want to list your home just for fun, but don’t want it to sell, then what? If you want to make sure your home won’t sell, here are seven tips used by the experts.

1. Make sure your home is not easily shown. If nobody ever walks through your home, then your chances of it not selling are pretty good. The first step to do this is to sell by owner rather than hire a professional real estate agent. And, never answer your phone when potential buyers call to arrange showings. If you don’t answer the phone, they can’t see your home, and if they can’t see it, they won’t buy it.
2. Make Your Home the Most Expensive — Almost everyone goes online to search Kennesaw Georgia homes for sale. If your home is priced well above the competition, more expensive than other similar homes of the same size and age.
3. Don’t include photo’s on your MLS listing – Buyers love photo’s. Buyers want online details to narrow down the houses they will actually visit with their real estate agent. If your house doesn’t have any online pictures, potential buyers won’t even realize that its actually listed at all.
4. Smell Can Be Very Powerful — Very few things can turn a buyer off more quickly than a foul odor. One of the easiest way to develop that potent smell you’re looking for to drive potential buyers away is by having lots of animals living in your house. When odors are really bad, buyers and their real estate agents may leave in three seconds or less.
5. Keep Your Home Cluttered and Messy – If your home has a great floor plan, you can totally detract from this by having stuff, especially garbage, everywhere. Having lots of stuff will distract buyers from noticing your homes positive features. Home viewers will be mesmerized by all of your stuff and won’t notice any of the positives. Their thoughts will be completely distracted wondering how anyone could live in such a messy house.
6. Break Things – Buyers don’t usually like to fix things that are already broken. When buyers can see obvious neglect on household repairs, they can be most confident that there are also many underlying defects that aren’t visible, that they probably don’t want to deal with. Having lots of broken objects will seriously detract potential buyers. Common broken items include, windows, toilets, faucets, holes in walls, soiled carpet, and non functioning doors.
7. Have Bad Curb Appeal — Creating a bad first impression can make a huge difference in ensuring that your home won’t sell. The best way to give a bad first impression is with poor curb appeal. Don’t mow your lawn, or even better allow it to die. It’s actually really simple to let weeds flourish and destroy any desirable vegetation. Ensure that exterior paint and trim look wasted. Loose paint chips, especially on houses older than 1978 make an excellent detractor.  If you really want to ice up the bad first impression, make sure your doorbell doesn’t work and the front door is very difficult to open.

By following these seven steps, you can guarantee that your house will never sell, even in this rough buyers market.