There are all sorts of things that can decrease the value of your home. Just having an overflowing bin outside can drop its value by more than 10 percent. Litter in the street outside your home can cause its value to fall more than 12 percent.
Making your neighborhood clean is certainly one way to increase the value of your home. But is there anything else you can do. Here we’re going to look at all the ways you can boost the value of your home by $10,000. Let’s take a look.
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Ugly lino and badly fitted laminate are a big turn off fo buyers. It’s yet another job that they’ll have to do once they move in. And it can cause the value of your home to plummet considerably. An HSBC study found that the price of a house can increase dramatically once new carpets are installed. According to their data, house prices rise by an average of $2,500 if carpets are new. To save money on a new installation, homeowners might want to install them themselves. You may also be able to achieve the same effect by getting your carpets deep cleaned. Having a carpet in a fit state is an excellent way to woo buyers and get them interested in your property.
Turn Your Home Into A Showroom
According to Homesmart Real Estate, it’s important to market your home effectively. One of the ways that you can do this is to transform it into a showroom. Creating a showroom is actually relatively easy. All you have to do is to fill a room with as few objects as possible and put neutral colors on the wall. A picture here, a sofa there – it all adds up to make the house look a lot more presentable.
The idea isn’t to put your own personality on the property, but to give buyers key pointers that suggest a direction in which they could take the room. A few candles in the bathroom or a fruit bowl in the kitchen helps to make the home more tabula rasa. Just decluttering and using a few well-placed objects can dramatically increase the value of your home. It also helps reduce the amount by which buyers attempt to undercut your offer.
Pull Out Your Dirty Toilet
Besides the kitchen, buyers consider the bathroom to be the most important room in the house. A recent survey by a letting agency found that a dirty bathroom was the biggest issue for new buyers. So what can sellers do?
The first thing to do is grab your bleach and rubber gloves and get scrubbing. Cleaning up the bathroom is essential if you want to impress the people who come to look around your house. Don’t just focus on the toilet and the sink. Make sure you scrub the grouting around your shower and bath tub too. Black, moldy grouting is a big no-no.
You may also want to update out-of-date features like soap holders, faucets, and towel rails.
