in the house, and spreads germs and dirt. If you haven’t already, immediately put your pets on flea repellant. One flea bite could send a potential buyer out the door, never to return. In terms of liability, if a potential buyer trips over a pet or is bitten, not only is the sale off the table, but you might be looking at legal problems. A dirty kitchen and/or bathroom. Kitchens and bathrooms sells houses. You can’t show off your beautiful kitchen with dirty dishes piled up in the sink, and your bath looks like just another locker room with towels all over the bathroom floor, or a dirty sink with blobs of toothpaste andwhiskers clinging to the rim.Thismakes potential buyers feel uncomfortable. Best case scenario, they feel like they’ve put you out, or that they are inconveniencing you and they need to rush out in order to let you have your privacy. Worst case scenario, they might be disgusted
andwondering about the overall cleanliness and quality of the house’s upkeep under your ownership. Either scenario is bad for the sale. It bears repeating: kitchens and bathrooms sell houses.Make sure yours sparkle!
Dirty windows and sills. Dust the cobwebs out of the corners and keep the window sills neatly dusted and clean. Good quality windows are expensive to replace, so buyers want to know that they won’t have to make this kind of investment any time soon. They look closely at the windows, so clean windows are a must. If the eyes are the windows to the soul, the windows are the soul of the house! A bedroom that is…not a bedroom. A home office may be part of the American dream, but not necessarily on every potential buyer’s checklist. Turning a bedroom into a working home office is common these days with so many people working virtual jobs, but problems arise when changes are made that destroy the integrity of the room and require renovation to revert the room back into a bedroom. The same holds true for children’s bedrooms that have affixed, permanent structural changes such as a built-in bed in the shape of a pirate ship or
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