b>Minor Home Improvements If your interior walls are
that will Sell your looking shabby with marks and
House dents, and old nail holes then
fill in the holes and repaint the
When the housing market is walls. However, make sure you do
declining and you want to sell a quality job by taping all trim
your house it is more important first and cutting carefully
than ever that your home look the around the ceiling. Nothing can
best it can. Though making sure hurt the appearance of a room
your home is clean, organized and more than a poor paint job.
uncluttered are critical factors
in successfully selling a house; Fix Cracked Tile Floors
making some minor home
improvements can also be key. If you have tile floors in your
Painting, fixing crack tiled home’s entrance way and kitchen,
floors, gluing down curled vinyl make sure that you have fixed any
or linoleum floors, refinishing broken tiles prior to attempting
wood floors, replacing old to sell your house. These are two
exterior lighting fixtures, highly visible and important
trimming shrubs around the home areas of your home and poor
exterior, eliminating old ceiling flooring in these areas can make
water stains from previous roof or break the selling of your
leaks are just a few of the home.
ideas. All of these minor home
improvements can transform an Glue Down Curled Edges on your
older home into a new home with Vinyl or Linoleum Floors
limited costs and time.
If your vinyl or linoleum
Paint Interior Walls flooring was put in after your
kitchen or bath cabinets and
appliances were installed, be easily applied with a roller
chances are there has been some and a couple hours of work.
curling at the edges of the Vinyl Leaving ceiling stains visible to
or Linoleum flooring. Apply some potential homebuyers invites
glue underneath the curling edges questions about your roof’s
and press the vinyl or linoleum integrity. No future homeowner is
flooring back into place. You interested in having to replace
will need something heavy to hold the shingles on the home as soon
down the edges while the glue as they move in.
dries.
Update your Exterior Home
Re-sand and Refinish your Wood Lighting
Floors
If your home is at least 5 years
If you wood floors are in rough old and your exterior home
shape then re-sand and refinish lighting is made out of brass, or
them. Quality wood floors can be brass plating, chances are that
a real selling point in a home. it is dingy and faded and quite
Scratched up wood floors, frankly an eye sore. Again,
however, can be a real turn off outdoor entrance way lighting is
to potential homebuyers. one of the first things a
potential homebuyer sees.
Re-Paint the Ceiling to Installing two or three exterior
Eliminate Water Stains lights is relatively inexpensive
compared to delaying the selling
If you roof at one time had a of your home in a declining
leak, make sure there are no housing market.
ceiling stains. If there are,
then repaint the ceiling. Ceiling Trimming Exterior Shrub
paint is very inexpensive and can
If your home’s front exterior see a green sheen running up the
shrubs are overgrown and home’s exterior.
swallowing up your home’s front
exterior then pull out the With these minor home
trimmers and aggressively remove improvements, and pricing your
the overgrowth so that the homes home right to begin with, you can
front exterior can be seen again. dramatically increase the chances
of selling your home quickly. It
Power Wash the Exterior is important to note that a
Siding potential homebuyer usually makes
an impression of your home in the
Make sure there is no mold and first 8 seconds of seeing it.
dirt visible on your home’s Thus, it is critical that the
siding. Use a power washer and a home’s exterior, entranceway, and
proper detergent to remove any key rooms look as good as new
mold and mildew on the exterior before they show up at your door.
of the home. Nothing looks worse
to a potential homebuyer than to
About the Author:
Over the past 20+ years Mark Donovan has been involved with building homes and additions to homes and is a licensed real estate agent. His projects have included: building a vacation home, building additions and garages on to existing homes, and finishing unfinished homes. For more home improvement information visit http://www.homeadditionplus.com and http://www.homeaddition.blogspot.com
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