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Your front door says a lot about the entire house
It is estimated that buyers develop an attitude about a property within the first 15 seconds of seeing the house. That attitude is then reinforced by everything else they see as they go through the house.
Your lawn is the gateway to your home
Most people overlook their lawns when putting their house on the market. Yet an ignorned lawn or a lawn that has become thin and weedy only detracts from that important first impression.
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It all starts at the curb: make sure your first impression is memorable and favorable
You know the basic curb appeal storyline: If potential buyers don’t like what they see from the street, they might never get inside the front door. You might have done the same at some point yourself when shopping for a home.
Fortunately, unless you’re living in an Addams Family-like spookhouse, there are plenty of quick and easy ways to spiff up your home and give potential buyers a reason to come inside.
Yards should look appealing and inviting, a place where you’d like to relax on a pleasant spring afternoon. An easy way to do that is to keep the grass freshly groomed – don’t forget the edging – and plant beds freshly mulched, says John Merrill, editor of Landscape-America. According to Merrill, you should trim overgrown trees and shrubs that may have looked ok when they were planted, but now may have become too large.
Make sure the lawn is neatly mown and edged. Flower beds should be mulched (avoid Cypress mulch for ecological reasons).
During the growing season, make sure to add some potted flowers on either side of the entrance. This is particularly attractive even if planted in over-sized clay pots. Keep these plants well watered. Click here for additional landscape tips.
The importance of
Curb Appeal when selling
Creating curb appeal
You must grab a buyer's interest from the curb if you want to sell the home for top dollar. Home buyers will sometimes refuse to go into a house with an unkempt yard, sagging doors or peeling paint. Even if you can't afford to paint, get that yard in tip-top shape.
Creating curb appeal is one of the best ways of improving your chances of making a quicker sale. Most people make a judgment on the property as soon as they see it based on what they see. If they see overgrown shrubs, dirty windows, stained gutters and peeling paint, they immediately have made a negative snap judgment about the property without ever seeing the inside.
You want a house that has personality, but without the person.
Personality Plus
Getting your house ready to sell doesn't mean putting 1000s of dollars in major improvements. These are tips that usually only cost less than $75 per room, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less. But these suggestions will more than pay for themselves in a higher selling price and fewer days on the market.
With a tightening real estate market, the home seller needs every advantage in their favor without over spending. Giving your house some favorable memory power is key. That means lots of personality without the person.
In other words, you want a house that is memorable from the prospects view, not your view. You want to remove your own personality from your property. Let home-buying prospects, without too much imagination, see themselves sitting in your living room. If they can sit down at the kitchen table and can see themselves sitting there on a Sunday morning sipping a cup of coffee and reading the morning paper, you've done your job. If, in the house showing process, all a prospect can see is you, then you've failed BIG TIME! Don't put your house in that position.