Selling your home involves more than staging a pretty house; proper maintenance goes a long way toward a successful sale. As you prepare your home for selling, consider these home maintenance tasks to do before putting your house on the market.
- Unclutter the gutters and retile the roof if necessary. Overflowing gutters won’t look appealing to a potential buyer if you’re showing the house on a rainy day. Clear out leaves, animal nests, and other debris from the gutter. While you’re at it, check your roof for damage and have it retiled if necessary.
- Perform basic lawn care whether you’re still living in the house or have already vacated. Your front yard is the first thing potential home buyers see when considering your house. If the grass is uncut and your garden is overgrown with weeds, a potential buyer might assume you’re not taking care of your house, making it look like a less attractive option.
- Repair landscaping problems. Dealing with your home’s landscaping is another issue you should attend to regarding home maintenance tasks to do before putting your house on the market. Repair holes in the lawn, bald spots in the grass, weeds growing through cracks in the driveway, etc. These steps help show you care about your old home.
- Professionally service your HVAC systems. Heating and cooling is a critical component to your home. To prevent issues that might derail a sale on your home and to prove to potential buyers that the heating and cooling systems are functioning, have your HVAC system professionally serviced.
- Eliminate pest problems and implement preventative pest control. If you haven’t already, crack down on any pest problems you already have—if any—and implement preventative measures to keep a problem from occurring between now and the time a potential buyer moves in. This home maintenance task can be as simple as controlling food waste around the home, caulking opening in the home, or calling a pest control service.
- Add fertilizer to your lawn. Spring rains might add growth and greenery to your lawn, but you can really help the grass look lush by adding fertilizer. This job will also give potential buyers a positive impression of your lawn and home.
- Clean the windows and mirrors. This task may seem insignificant, but cleaning water stains and dust from windows and mirrors will add an impressionable shine inside and outside your home!
These home maintenance tasks to do before putting your house on the market can improve the process of selling your home and make potential buyers happier along the way! For more home buying and selling tips, follow the Ryan Roberts Realtor blog! For all of your real estate needs in the Auburn, Opelika, and Lake Martin area, contact Ryan Roberts at 334-750-9872 or email [email protected]!
