Make your home ready for selling
Homeowners often agonize over their living arrangements. Deciding to remodel or move is a common challenge. Renovating your home can be stressful. Then again, selling your home can be stressful as well. When it does come time for you to move on to your next place, it makes sense to maximize your investment and extract the most equity possible. Anyone who has spent any time watching cable TV has likely seen shows about “flipping.” Have you noticed the amount of work that goes into getting a home to sell at the top of the market? Do they market their homes with lots of flaws?
Most professional rehabilitation companies improve homes with quality features. So, if you are planning to sell, then someone really ought to make it as ready as it can be. It’s often best to mimic the type of features other homes that recently sold in your area offer. This way, you know what you are up against. It’s better to be better than not quite good enough. The market wants what it wants.
In many cases, whether you want to believe it or not, you’ll be competing against new construction. Look at new-construction properties in the price range you want to be in. If your home is a few years old, refresh the creature comforts and accentuate the benefits your home has to offer. Spending a little time and money on your mature landscaping may be just the feature a buyer is looking for. There’s rarely a call for adding new features such as water features or a patio. However, if you already have a feature, just make sure it’s in tiptop shape. If it’s more cost effective to remove