Long term planning of selling your home?

[paulsharvey]

We are still working on our old house to get it listed. We are painting all of the interior walls, painting the cabinets, repairing the laminate wood floor (only replacing the damaged planks), and redoing the master bath that had cracked tile. Not trying to upgrade, just make it look clean and move in ready. A large part of the painting is because of the kids...
We do plan to put the absolute cheapest vinyl blinds in, like $11/set from Walmart. I did patch some drywall. We considered replacement cabinet doors/drawer faces, but it was about $900-1200, and the lead time was pretty high (like 60 days).

Our potential buyers will likely be 1 of 2 groups. First time buyer, moving from rental to ownership, and hopefully judging the home based on their current rental. Second buyer would be an investor seeking to rent it out.

 

[Sigarms]

We are still working on our old house to get it listed. We are painting all of the interior walls, painting the cabinets, repairing the laminate wood floor (only replacing the damaged planks), and redoing the master bath that had cracked tile. Not trying to upgrade, just make it look clean and move in ready. A large part of the painting is because of the kids...

Have to laugh. The one house we looked at a month or two ago (first house we looked at since we bought our current home over 20 years ago) was being listed at 420K. 1,900 sq ft with 7 acres, but most of the land really wasn't useable for anything.

Chipped paint on the walls, chipped countertops, and a spare bedroom over the garage that had horrendous carpeting that was stained all over the place as well as having an odd smell.

Apparently the people were still living there, and my wife noted with all the beds they had a LOT of kids, but still...You would think they would be doing exactly what your doing in getting their house ready to sell.

Having been "foster parents" for our local human society will the countless dogs we've had in our home along with our own boys and dad downstairs, our house will definitely need a coat of paint everywhere along with some other things that need to be addressed.

Perhaps it's just me, but when I saw the shape of the inside of this house we looked at, it just seemed like the people didn't care (I'm just talking about not having chips in the paint all over the inside of the house, chips in the countertops along with kind of a rank carpet). I was actually surprised a realtor let it go that way for a showing.

Just looked, house is still on the market, now at 390k. Ironically enough apparent someone was buying it and it fell through of no fault of the seller.

 

[wilso]

We’ve been considering selling our home and have been reading up on different services. I came across 72SOLD reviews and I should say they are mixed. Some people rave about the quick sales, while others mention hidden fees. I’d love to hear more experiences before making any decisions.

 

[paulsharvey]

We’ve been considering selling our home and have been reading up on different services. Some people rave about the quick sales, while others mention hidden fees.

I think what market your in is a big factor on stuff like "staging". I know in some areas, sellers will rent an entire furniture and TV package, and transfer the rental to the new owner. others, an empty blank slate is better