HH&R: Home Flipping Mistakes

As mentioned, we like to frequent open houses because it's a hobby of ours.  I love homes and architecture and my husband loves being practical.  Recently we saw a 'renovated' home that is trying to increase the sales price by $275K.  It was a full gut, or so it seemed.  but all they did was change the superficial materials.  The prior seller had redone the roof, the exterior and patio, and poured a new concrete driveway.  The current sellers don't seemed to have done much other than 'update' the kitchen and provide some new paint and bathrooms.  Here's what I mean - these are mistakes that I believe made them have to accept a reduced offer.

The dining room;  It's still the entrance off the garage.  It's a 2500 sq ft home and they didn't create any kind of dedicated drop zone or mudroom.  They could have.  But they didn't.  Someone spending north of $800K is likely going to want somewhere to drop their stuff, and there's no dedicated space.  It's just straight dining room.

The kitchen:  

• They put vents on the floor.  Those can be moved to the baseboards of the cabinets.  Yes it costs a bit of money to move them, but by moving them you (1) gain the safety of not having people drop things and food bits down your vents, including liquids, and (2) make it so that you're not stepping on it all the time (or your robot vacuum isn't trying to work over it).  Especially when you're already moving the kitchen to a different part of the house.  So poorly planned.
• Also, there's no pantry.  They had space next to the door that went outside.  They could have moved the island over a twinge and put in a double door shelf pantry without issue.  
• OR they could have relocated the laundry room from the closet next to the kitchen to somewhere else and reused that space as a pantry.

Laundry room - did I mention they moved the kitchen?  Doing so means they so could have created a drop zone / laundry room.  So irresponsible.

Multiple rooms:  They left the wall panelling and just painted it.  This keeps the smell in the house.  It needs to be redone with new drywall.  That smell could be just old house, sure, but it also could be more nefarious and 'not worrying' about it and just painting it leaves the problem for the buyer.  I don't believe that's good practice.

Yes, the house is 'pretty' but they had to reduce their price to sell, and the buyer is going to have to contend with these misses at some point.  Spend a little extra to do it a little more thoughtfully and then you have a better chance of not only getting your WHOLE investment back but also of creating a name for yourself as a flipper people want to buy homes from and will follow you to do so.