This is absolutely true! ARE YOU THE LAZY NEIGHBOR?
Well are you? Sometimes we have to step outside the box and take a critical look at one of our prized
possessions - our home! If you were a buyer, would you buy it back? If not - get to work now!
If you are putting your home on the market, there is no time to loose! Buyers have many homes to choose from and if yours doesn't look nice from the street, they will just drive away screaming 'NEXT'.
Get that curb appeal! Enjoy this post from Becky Bedard from Charlotte North Carolina.
Have you driven through your neighborhood lately an seen that neighbors house and said oh my god why don't they do something!! Well prior to listing your home take a good look at the outside of your home from your neighbors view. You might be surprised what you see. Can you see the windows through the over grown bushes? Have the flower beds taken over the sidewalk? When you look at the grass is it yellow or full of bare spots? How about the front door? Is it purple or a funny color green? There are so many homes on the market right now, shouldn't yours shine? Lets get out those hedge clippers, paint cans and grass seed. Let's make buyers pull up to the front of your home and say WOW! It won't take but a short time or if need be call me and I'll find a local handy man/lawn keeper and what a difference. Your market value will increase and days on the market will shorten, if you don't have "The Lazy Neighbors House".
Good post--didn't catch it the first time around, so I'm glad you reblogged it for us! Only thing I'd add Lyn is that these days, getting them "to the curb" starts online!
Marian: Yep, it does. You have to do some prep work BEFORE you put your house on the market. If you're not good with general upkeep then you have to do some more!
Lyn, an unkept home is not only an eyesore, but a sign that things inside are not well either. I keep thinging about American Idol this year, the episode with the man singing "Pants on the ground,Pants on the ground,...) I have my own version. "Plants in the ground, plants all around, houses looking good with there plants in the ground." Ellen
Bill: People don't often think about that.
Ellen: More like dead plants in the ground.