Improve Your Homes Sell-Ability
If you're a South Carolina home owner interested in selling your house, you've doubtless been a tad discouraged lately by a flat real estate market. Market conditions rise and fall; unfortunately, it's the inevitable nature of a big ticket business.
So while real estate captains and their prophets continue to joust their insights around current trends and anticipated improvements, let's roll up our sleeves and take a look at what can be done now to improve your homes chances to best compete in this sluggish market.
Am I suggesting you spend money on improvements? Roll it into the asking price and maybe get it back on the sale? That sounds risky, are there alternatives? Yes, there are alternatives. You can reduce the price of your property yet again or you can continue sitting on it as you have been, waiting and hoping.
However, a proactive approach offers a greater likelihood of success than a passive "wait and see" attitude. Remember Aesop's Fable of the Tortoise and the Hare? It was the Hare who lost to his competition, because he sat and waited, eventually falling asleep. It was not the slow and steady pace of his opponent that actually won the race; and that is the key.
Likewise, lowering your homes cost by $10,000 will not garner as much attention in the imagination of Mr. & Mrs. Buyer as will the sight of a freshly painted house. An additional cost concern you just eliminated for them by pushing it 10 to 15 years into their future. In their relief, they won't even notice that you just rolled the cost of that upgrade into your asking price; and we won't tell them either.
It has been said that purchasing a home is emotional and that buyers are irrational. Most buyers think they make their decisions based on a reasonable weighing of the facts. However, studies show they primarily buy with their emotions and apply logic skills after their decision. Fact is, they are buying a dream and you will benefit by approaching it as such. Help keep their dream alive by dealing with dull, peeling paint.
Painting your own home is one of the most visible and economical improvements you can make. Prospective buyers can see the results immediately. That being said, realize that painting the exterior of a house is a considerably more difficult chore than painting the interior. So unless you are handy with a brush and comfortable jockeying a ladder for the next week and a half, consider hiring a professional paint contractor like McCauley Painting of Greenwood, SC to undertake your painting project. The job of painting your house will be completed quickly and professionally. Then you can get busy entertaining the many offers your freshly painted home will now attract.
If you're a South Carolina business, or homeowner and your home, or facility needs painting call us today at (864) 323-7717. We'll complete your painting project professionally, on time and on budget. You'll know why, Our Experience Works for You!
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