Painting, decorating and other ways to make sure your house is in a good condition to sell.
House selling has become a very competitive market, and though people are desperate in some areas to buy a house, its important you take care to ensure that the you’ve done all you can to make your house as attractive, safe and saleable as possible.
It is said that the average house buyer has no vision which means you need to make their ‘envisioning’ themselves within the house as easy as possible. Dark paintwork is a definite turn off as are stained, worn or smelly carpets both of which need to be taken care of.
On the latter, you could offer an ‘allowance’ or remove a fraction of the house costs for carpets or, if you can, invest yourself and replace them, to allow a possibly higher sale price. Walls should be painted off white, or antique white or possibly very pale and pastel shades if you’re planning on redecorating you may have no option if your walls are stained, marked or damaged.
Its also a good time to ensure that everything that you’ve been meaning to repair is taken care of is actually done a...