How to raise the value of your home with home improvements

Are you thinking of selling yourhome? Do you want to maximise the price you get for it? Well here are a few tips from what I and my friends have done over the years.

Don’t Forget the Outside

It is the first place that potential buyers see and one of the most overlooked by sellers. A garden, yard and outside can make an instant impression that carriers the buyer through the rest of your house.

Make sure the rubbish is in the bins and not in flower beds. Make sure those bins are tidy and in a discrete place. Spend a bit of time on your garden if you have one. Nicely trimmed grass and flower beds are appealing to most, and overgrown wasteland scattered with old car parts are a big turn off. Tidiness in the garden also implies a well maintained house. And it costs little to nothing to improve these areas. Oh and if you have a few cars, only keep the best one parked in the drive or garage when buyers call.

Have a Spring Clean

When was the last time you did one of these, and a real one at that? Well a clean house with no areas of grime is another way to impress buyers and make sure you get top price. A well maintained, well kept house is what people are looking for and they will pay to get one. The opposite is that a grimy dirty place sees value plummet. And this is another area that costs you little to nothing to get right.

Think about the Smell

Nobody wants to buy a home with rancid odours of cooking, stale ash trays or baby vomit. People do want places with pleasant floral aromas. So don’t just clean the place and shampoo the carpets but get those wood varnishes out. Use pleasant smelling cleaning materials and when you have finished get a few bunches of fresh flowers in vases and surreptitiously place a little potpourri. Oh and if you have a itch for cigarettes, smoke them outside and dispose of the butts after when you know you are having buyers round.

Light

Most people love an airy well lit place while dingy turns them off. Clean those windows inside and out. Push any curtains or drapes back and let that light in. Make sure all your lights not just work and are safe, but also actually light what they are meant to. If they don’t, change them to a higher wattage bulb.

If you follow these few inexpensive tips you can see the value of your home at the top end and easy to sell as well.