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House worth much less due to being dirty?

Hello all!

I am executor of the estate for my uncle who passed. The only asset he had was his house in small town Ohio.

House is dirty, needs bathrooms deep cleaned, needs everything to be thrown out, needs new carpeting and to be painted; I will not be doing this or hiring to do this as he has no money in the estate to pay for it, I'm going to sell the house as is.

I met with a real estate agent who looked through the house; said it had good bones, updated windows, good kitchen, waterproofed basement(?) new heater and told me the Zestimate of 135k isn't right and according to some other real estate website the closer estimate is at 104k.

Then proceeded to tell me that he sold a house in a similar condition (of being dirty) for 35k "in the area". And that he sold a house similar in size to my uncle's that had been fully updated and ready to go for 130k.

Told me he can probably sell the house for a "a little more" than 35k because it's a nicer neighborhood (than the similar condition one) and because of the heater, windows.

I feel like he's setting me up for a sale of 40-50 k.

I don't understand how a house would lose that much value because it's dirty. Especially since I keep hearing about how this market is insane for sellers.

This is fremont Ohio btw. Not sure if the market there is just.. not as big?

Do houses lose 50% of their value because they are dirty?

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