Sell Your Home With These Quick, Cheap Fixes

June 29, 2008 – 5:07 pm
by Hal James

To say the current real estate market is slow is a major understatement. From the credit crunch to the mass of foreclosures, things are pretty grim. If you need to sell your home, these inexpensive suggestions can make a difference.

The sense of smell is an important one. If someone in the home smokes, you need to deal with the odor. Wash the walls with an ammonia based cleaner. Make sure to replace the filter in the heating and air conditioning systems as well.

Dripping faucets in the middle of the night are a form of torture. They also turn off buyers. Check all your faucets. If they leak, replace the washers. If they are beaten up or don’t turn well, replace the entire faucet.

They say the eyes are the path to the soul of a person. In a home, the same is true for baseboards. They tell a story. If yours are beaten up, they tell a scary tale to a potential buyer. Replace and paint as necessary.

In a perfect world, we would never even touch most of the walls in a home. This is not a perfect world as we all know. If you have holes, dents or cracks, hire a handyman to repair them for a nominal fee and match the paint.

Some simple, inexpensive fixes are right in front of our eyes, but we just don’t see them. Screens fall in this category. Inspect them all. If they have any problems, replace them.

The entrance to your home is an important area. It’s the first place where buyers step from the exterior to the interior. Don’t you think the front door should be in good shape? Paint, repair or do whatever is necessary to make sure it is!

And then there is sweat equity. Yep, landscaping. You might have a thing for the jungle look, but most potential buyers will not. Cut back the jungle. Cut the grass. Edge the pathways. Plant some flowers. Just have at it.

There are certain parts of your home that are out of sight, out of mind. Your roof is one. Nothing screens run away to a buyer like a roof with problems. Inspect yours and have all broken shingles and so on repaired.

Although the current real estate market is slow, it is not dead. There are buyers. Homes are selling. The key is to moving your home is in the details. Buyers have lots to choose from so don’t give them a reason to walk away from yours.

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