Sell Your House for More with Regular Maintenance

Regular maintenance on your house is a good way to keep the value up. When you want to sell, you will be ahead of the game.
By: Lee Allen Sells
 
July 24, 2011 - PRLog -- We Buy Houses | Hampton Roads VA:A well kept house sells for more money no matter what the market is doing. Even in a very low current market value climate, if you have taken care of your house you will be able to sell it for more. You can ask more than those comps around your neighborhood if yours looks better.

This is not to say that you should install an expensive swimming pool. What this means is that your house should always look good. Keep it neat and tidy and in good repair. If you haven’t done that and much of it has been let go, you shouldn’t panic. You can still take action to get the repairs done that will make it look as though you’ve taken care of the house. There will be a lot of catching up to do, but much of it will require more elbow grease and hard work than money for remodels and upgrades.

If you aren’t ready to put your house on the market yet, but may do so in the future, you can start with a regular maintenance schedule that will help to keep the house up to good standards. This is wise for several reasons. First of all, it will be worth more when you sell. Second, if there is a family emergency and you must suddenly put the house on the market it will be easier for you if the house has been kept up all along. There will be less to do when you put it on the market.

Take care of your water flow. Get after leaks right away. Do not let them go because you’ll have a bigger mess to clean up when it rots the wood, causes mold and mildew, and attracts such pests as ants, cockroaches, and others that seek moist places.

Keep the yard clean. Clean the gutters, windows, and trash receptacles. After each rainy season or winter, clean off the dirt from the exterior of the house. Keep the lawn mowed and the trees and shrubs pruned. Go around the house on a hunt for flaws every month or so. If you do this, you will find that replacing a washer in the sink this month, fixing a leaky sprinkler next month, and clearing out the gutters the month after, etc. is easier to keep up than having to do it all at once in a hurry.

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