Getting Your Home ready To Sell: Live Eye Candy — Swans!
June, the biggest month of the year for brides and home sales, is here. Every agent will be back in town selling. Or at Neimans’ sales, spending. (Ebby Halliday promises a real “barnburner” of a month, stay tuned for deets.) If you’re selling, you know what you have to do –clean, pare down, stage. You might also want to try some live eye candy, especially if you live near water. Our staff photographer snapped these beautiful Black Swans a few weeks ago. They belong to the flock of Braden Power, who owns one of the most delectable listings in Dallas at 3816 Turtle Creek Boulevard. (This video was shot when the house was listed for $13 million with Eleanor Mowery Sheets. It’s now reduced to $9.8 million and listed with the fabulous Doris Jacobs, Allie Beth Allman.) Could ornamental swans enhance your property value? Most definitely. Knox Swan & Dog sells and ships swans humanely throughout the U.S. , Delta being the preferred airline carrier because, as a company official told me, sometimes the Post Office (which charges $360 to ship a pair of birds) is idiotic enough to leave the poor creatures sweltering on a hot dock. The Mute Swan, immortalized by Tchaikovsky, is the company’s most popular and economical bird. You can buy a pair of healthy Mute Swans for $600 that are guaranteed to breed. Some folks buy or rent them for weddings. The lovely creatures pictured here are Black Swans from Australia, slightly more costly: $800 for a one year old pair (Will they breed? Is he really into her as a life-mate?). $1500 for proven breeders — Black Swans who do not, apparently, need Viagra. Swans are generally faithful to each other and mate for life. Clutches (litters) average five eggs but can be as many as ten. So say you shell out $600 for a pair of Mute Swans, plus $250 air freight, you could end up with two or three clutches a year — 18 baby birds! But then you have tend them, and I’d hate to think of what might happen if they met up with a Dallas coyote. Still, what better way to make a buyer fall in love with your manse than to have graceful swans in full view.
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3816 Turtle Creek Drive was reduced to $7.9M a few weeks ago; or, if you prefer, you can rent it for $25,000/mo.
What if I have a highrise to sell? I think having swans roaming the hallways in between the condos would be kinda tacky. I’d much rather go with flamingos. They’re exotic and give that extra pop of color. It would be interesting to step out of the elevator and see a flamingo pointing you in the direction of the condo with it’s knee!