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Selling Your Home – These 5 Tips to Add Curb Appeal Will Add Value to your Home

Are you selling your home? Or do you have your home on the market and no offers have appeared yet? Read on to find out how you can add some curb appeal to your home and even maybe, just maybe add a little more value to your home.

The way your house looks from the street can impact its value. It can also shorten the time it takes to sell your home. Advice from real estate agents, appraisers, home stagers, landscape designers and home inspectors suggested the following as the projects which would add most curb appeal and perhaps some value when selling your home.

1. Paint the house.

Hands down, the most commonly offered curb appeal advice from our real estate pros and appraisers is to give the exterior of your home a good paint job. Buyers will instantly notice it and appraisers will note it on the valuation. If you’re under two years remaining life on the paint work, paint the exterior because it tends to show wear badly. Just make sure you stay within the range of accepted colors for your market. A house that’s painted a wildly different color from its competition will be marked down in value by appraisers.

2. Have the House washed.

Before you make the investment in a paint job, though, take a good look at the house. If it’s got mildew or general grunge, just washing the house could make a world of difference. Pressure washing – a job to be left to the professionals, makes the house look “bright and clean in addition  to getting rid of unsightly things like cobwebs, which may not be seen from the yard but will detract from the homes cleanliness when seen up close.

The cost to have a professional cleaning should be a few hundred dollars – a fraction of the cost of having the house painted.

3. Trim the shrubs and green up the yard.

Cut down overgrown bushes and shrubs and replace with leafy plants and annuals mulched with beautiful reddish brown bark. Cost will be minimal. You also don’t want any bare spots. Take the time to fertilize the yard, throw out some grass seed, and if needed, add some sod.

4. Add a splash of color.

It could be a flower bed of annuals by the mailbox, a paint job for the front door, or a brightly colored bench or an Adironack chair. You can buy a cute bench at Home depot for $99. Spray paint it bright red or blue and set it in the yard or on the front porch. This won’t add extra points from an appraiser for a brightly colored bench but it may help to sell the home faster than the one down the street.

5. Add a fancy mailbox and house numbers.

An upscale mail box and architectural house numbers or an address plaque can give your house a distinctive look that stands out from everyone else on the block. A good mailbox might cost $40-$50. Architectural house numbers may run as high as a few hundred dollars.

So try some of these ideas and see if they won’t just help you sell your home!

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