One of the most important things you can do when selling a home is make sure it has curb appeal. This means making sure that when cars drive by or up to the house to look at it on the inside, they are impressed. You want people to look at the house and fall in love with it from the outside in. Therefore, you need to make some changes to ensure this happens, giving your home curb appeal.
For starters, make sure your roof lines are even. This means so sagging roof and that it looks sound. Then, consider additions to the home. This might mean adding something like a dormer or even surrounds by the front door. Be sure any cracked concrete is fixed and that steps leading to the front door are in good condition. If you have rusted wrought iron, paint it with a good, outdoor paint.
Then, you want to pay a lot of attention to the landscaping. With this, you want flowers and bushes that work with the style and color of the home. Make sure shrubs and bushes are neatly trimmed, that you have bark or mulch around the base of flowerbeds, and that the landscaping is not cluttered. For flowers, be sure to add color, which pops of red, orange, yellow, and purple can do wonders for a home’s appearance.
Then if you have an old car or boat in the driveway, we suggest you move them while the house is being shown. In addition, you might take down any basketball goals, again keeping the home clean and neat looking. If the garage doors are in bad shape, these might need to be replaced. Put any garbage cans inside. The goal with curb appeal is to make your home buyable.
You can also add larger street numbers to the house so people can find it easier. The paint on the house should be in good condition. If not, having the home painted would be a great investment. Add dramatic lighting, which might be new fixtures on the outside by the door and garage, as well as lighting that highlights some of the flowers and trees. Finally, remember charm, which is a huge seller. That means adding a bench or shutters, or doing what it takes to bring charm to the outside.