If you want to sell the house quickly and for the price you want, it can be crucial to spend some money on the home you are getting ready to sell, even if you don’t want to. Aside from cleaning and eliminating clutter, money may need to be spent in certain areas. While there are some areas that aren’t necessary to spend money on, you may need to spend a little cash in order to get your property sold.

One good place to start may seem obvious. From top to bottom, simply give the house a good cleaning. Get rid of clutter. Things you haven’t used in several months can be discarded. Wash ceilings, walls, woodwork, windows, and floors. Clean all the grout found in tiled countertops, floors, walls. Launder throw rugs or replace them with new colors, and steam clean carpeting. Fix all broken things. Replace broken light fixtures, patch holes or cracks, fix or replace worn or broken window shades or blinds, patch or replace screens in windows, replace cracked or broken windows.

Any unfinished repair work that you have left should be done. You are hindering offers if there are obvious repairs that need to be made, and the buyer’s home inspector will find those issues anyway. A red flag goes up to would-be buyers when there are unfinished repairs or projects, and it reflects badly on the overall maintenance of the home. Nothing will make a buyer pull out of a deal and run for the hills faster than a home inspection report riddled with needed repairs and safety concerns.

Painting is necessary. The ceilings are where you start. Buyers spend more time than you would think staring at ceilings. You don’t want them to see stains from grease or smoke and ceiling cracks, while they are looking for signs of a leaky roof. New paint is the most cost effective improvement, and nothing else says freshness like it does. On large cracks, use fiberglass tape and cover it with joint compound and sand. A good neutral color for paint is a light tan.

Old or stained carpet could be replaced before it goes up for sale. Often a professional cleaning is enough to get it ready to show, but sometimes that just won’t do the trick. One huge turnoff for potential buyers is stained or dated carpet, especially from animals. No one is interested in purchasing a house with carpet stained by other peoples‘ pets, even if they are pet lovers themselves.

The light available in your home should be maximized. Good light is one thing that every buyer says that they want in a home, aside from location. Take down the drapes, clean the windows, change the lampshades, increase the wattage of your light bulbs and cut the bushes outside to let in sunshine. Do what you have to do make your house bright and cheery – it will make it more sellable.

Fixing up your home can be painless and inexpensive, if you do it yourself and use some creative planning and ideas. These tips should give you a good start.

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