Spring Home Improvement LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.com May 1, 2015 5
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.
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
serve you too as you enjoy your home.
Avoid the avalanche. Make your home
ready-for-sale - Now!
Story by Jim Youngquist
