If you’re selling a home in Las Vegas, your real estate agent will talk to you about all the areas that need improvements before you can list it on the market. Some of them may come as a surprise to you. You may have already identified a few areas in your home that could use a little TLC. Check out this guide, which explains three issues that can hurt your home’s selling potential, to get a head start before you talk to a real estate agent.
3 Issues That Can Hurt Your Home’s Selling Potential
These are three major issues that can hurt your home’s selling potential:
- Bright accent walls
- Carpet
- Missed maintenance and repairs
Scroll down for a closer look at each.
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Issue #1 That Can Hurt Your Home’s Selling Potential: Bright Accent Walls
Though bright accent walls maybe a perfect addition to the style you’ve created in your home, buyers may not see them that way. In fact, when buyers’ eyes settle on vibrantly colored accent walls, what they see is a lot of work to cover that paint and make it neutral.
If you have an accent wall in your home, particularly one that’s done in a very rich color or a shade that contrasts with the rest of the walls in the room, your best bet is to repaint it now, before you list your home for sale. Usually, painting one wall is fairly simple; the challenge comes in if you have customized paint that will be difficult for a paint shop to match. In a case like that, you may be better off painting the entire room or calling in a professional team of painters who can handle the job for you.
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Issue #2 That Can Hurt Your Home’s Selling Potential: Carpet
Carpet isn’t “in” anymore, which means if your home has it, you may want to rip it up and replace it with a different type of flooring. Buyers prefer hardwoods, laminate, tile or just about anything other than carpet. Carpet can make your home seem old, and some buyers won’t even entertain the thought of purchasing a home that has it.
However, there’s a catch: You should talk to a real estate agent before you rip up all the carpet in your home, particularly if you have a lot. In some cases, it’s best to leave it in place and offer buyers a credit so they can choose the type of flooring they want. That’s because redoing the floors in an entire home can get pretty pricey, and the last thing you want is to eat into your profits from the sale by putting in flooring the buyers may not be crazy about.
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Issue #3 That Can Hurt Your Home’s Selling Potential: Missed Maintenance and Repairs
When you’re selling a home, your prospective buyers may not notice every little thing you maintained – but they will notice every little thing you didn’t maintain. Go through your home and handle common maintenance tasks, such as swapping out burned-out light bulbs, changing smoke detector batteries and torn or damaged window screens.
If you know your home needs repairs, make those, too. The bottom line is that after you accept a buyer’s offer, that buyer will hire a home inspector. The inspector will go through every square inch of your home looking for issues, and they will deliver a report directly to the buyer.
Buyers typically use home inspection reports to negotiate with sellers. Sometimes, buyers will ask for money off the homes sales price. In other cases, buyers will ask the seller to make the repairs. In still others, buyers will ask for a credit so they can make the repairs themselves. Either way, it’s the seller who ends up paying for the repairs. So, you may as well address them now, before you put your home on the market. That way, you’ll get closer to your asking price.
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