Second your advice. I made the mistake (twice) of updating our home prior to sale and got nothing back for the trouble (actually lost a lot). The second time I took out a 2nd mortgage to cover the costs. I was a dumb kid.
“...made the mistake (twice) of updating our home prior to sale and got nothing back for the trouble (actually lost a lot). The second time I took out a 2nd mortgage to cover the costs. I was a dumb kid.
Due to my work I really couldn’t buy a house until I was about 38 and then I bought my first one & when I sold it 9 years later.
I was talking to my sister about what I needed to prepare for the sale. She said. “why?” Broom clean, I had already kind of prepped the walls and I did caulk and the rest was just broom clean and it was clean one realtor came up to me and said “this is the cleanest house I have ever sold.”
There was nothing else done as far as upgrades or fresh paint it was “broom clean.”
But it does depend on the market, in a buyer’s market there might be a few extra things you need to do but in a seller’s market... broom clean and what people do in their new home is they change the colors around anyway so if you’re going to do any painting “Realtor White” is probably the only color you should use.