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Spring Home Improvement
Magazine Special Feature
Keeping your home ready to sell
By Jim Youngquist
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[May 02, 2015]
Your
life can change without a moment’s notice. Jobs can change and you
and your family could be transferred to another city or another
state. Your parents or children could fall ill. Your economic
picture could be altered significantly. You could fall in love with
someone across the state or across the country. Or perhaps even fall
in love with a house with a different house or landscape near or in
a far away place. Any one of these and a hundred other reasons could
cause you to have to pack up, move suddenly, and sell your
home-sweet-home.
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 Selling your home is a traumatic experience. Not only do you have
to deal with the separation anxiety of moving away from a thousands
of accumulated memories associated with your home, but you also have
to deal with the tumult of moving, and the avalanche of cleaning,
repairs, restoration and improvements necessary to making your home
ready-for-sale and seem attractive to buyers. Not a job for the
timid of heart.
This Spring 2015 issue of LDN Home Improvement offers insights and
concentrates on this very issue from a different perspective.
Instead of getting ready to sell your house in a whirlwind frenzy of
cleaning, painting, patching and fixing, we suggest that it might be
better to be pro-active and get your home ready to sell long before
you either need to, or plan to, sell it and move. Not only will you
spare yourself some of the hectic angst at the last minute, but when
you maintain it in that ready-to-sell condition you get the benefit
of living in the place while it is at its best. You deserve the best
don't you.
Keeping your place in a ready-to-sell condition not only offers much
less concentrated work, but allows you to do the work on your time,
rather than in an emergency crash-course, time-restricted basis that
might cause you to have to cut corners, miss details and perhaps
even take less money than you deserve for your home.
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The result of keeping your house ready-to sell is two fold: Pre-sale
improvements and fix-ups will not only make your home more attractive to
prospective buyers when that time comes, but will make your home more
attractive, more functional, and more delightful to you as you continue live in
it. The cleaning that you do to make your home ready-to-sell makes your home
cleaner while you live there. And the maintenance that you do will certainly
serves you too as you enjoy your home.
Avoid the avalanche. Make your home ready-for-sale - Now!
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