5 Over-The-Top Compliments a Home Buyer Could Use to Endear Themselves to the Seller

A survey revealed that telling someone their home looks clean, or that it smells good, are the two best home-related compliments people love to hear.

While flattering a homeowner with either of those will surely make a seller happy, if you’re looking to cozy up to a seller and make them more inclined to accept your offer over another buyer’s offer, or even be a little more negotiable, you might want to take it up a notch…

Here are 5 over-the-top compliments you can use to not only flatter the seller, but also paint the picture of you as the next owner of their lovely home:

1) “Your mirrors are so clean, I could clearly see myself living here when I looked at the one in the bathroom!”

It’s a good sign when a potential buyer starts envisioning themselves living in the home, but that usually comes in the form of saying something about how their furniture will fit in a room, or how they can see themselves enjoying coffee looking out a certain window. Use their shiny mirrors as the perfect opportunity to compliment them by literally seeing yourself living there.

2) “Your home is so clean, I probably won’t even have to clean it for a year after I move in!”

It’s one thing to tell the seller their home is clean, but imagine how much pride they’ll take in hearing it’s clean enough for you to take a year off of cleaning duties once you buy the place!

3) “I love the smell of your home so much! When I do my home inspection, I’m going to have them take air samples and send them to Febreeze to develop a spray using the signature smell of your house so it always has that ‘new home’ smell to me!”

People get used to the smell of their own home, so they can’t actually smell what their home smells like, but most sellers probably think their home smells good! (Yes, even the ones with a dozen cats and a wet dog roaming around…) So think about how pumped they’d be if you told them you want to continue pumping the scent into the air of the home once you own it!

4) “I’m glad you didn’t bake something before I came to look at your house… your home’s natural aroma smells even better than a warm Cinnabon, fresh out of the oven on a cool, fall day!”

Or if you think taking air samples sounds a bit too over-the-top, you could just warm up to them by comparing their home to the smell of warm Cinnabons!

5) “Do you mind if I take pictures of every room in the house? I want to hang them on the wall of each room as inspiration to keep it looking as clean and tidy as you keep it!”

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so imagine how flattered the seller will be knowing you want to keep a picture of their room like it’s an inspirational photo you found on Pinterest!