Switch Hats Before Listing Your Home In Virginia
Before listing your home in Virginia, consider switching hats for half a day. Older homes in Virginia tend to be ignored by many home buyers in the current market. With home prices deflated, home buyers can afford to shop around and to find the home that best suits their needs. The easiest way to sell is to answer those needs.
Money is tight so expensive renovations or improvements in a home are a low priority. For this reason, newer homes tend to be more popular – they lack the timber floors of the nineties, garish paintwork of the eighties, and the horrible wallpapers of the seventies. Timber floors can be costly to bring back to life, garish paintwork costly to cover, and the most expensive of all, wallpaper that must be stripped before the walls repainted. Notice they all have one common element – cost.
I suggested switching hats for a reason – you need to become the buyer. Once you have sold your home, you will most likely be in the market for a home yourself. What are you going to be looking for, and what is going to turn you off? While we all have individual tastes, there is still a common trend when it comes to style in a home.
The question then is what to do if your home does have timber floors, garish paintwork, or wallpaper? Have the floor refinished, repaint the garish paintwork, and have that wallpaper stripped and the walls repainted. The money you spend in rectifying these issues could well be recouped in the final sales price. The trouble is, you will never know. What we do know is that home buyers are either walking away from homes with these issues, or using those issues to negotiate a much lower sales price.
Before listing your home in Virginia, or any other state for that matter, switch hats and become a buyer. Would you buy your own home in that condition?
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