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It happens all over the U.S., in every neighborhood: Two houses go up for sale at about the same time. One house sells within weeks. The other sits on the market for months, the price goes down, it still sits – and eventually the owners give up. What made the first house sell so quickly while the other languished on the market?
It comes down to common problems that can nix your house from a buyer’s list of potential homes, as well as the most sought-after upgrades that can take your home from ‘nice’ to ‘perfect.’ Which one of these categories does your house fall into?
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A good real estate agent can walk through a house and immediately pinpoint the problems that homeowners might have learned to live with or have completely overlooked. Some of the most common problems include:
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Some houses are in such high demand that the owners begin juggling offers within a few weeks of putting it on the market. What did they do right? There are plenty of ways in which they might have taken the house from ‘just okay’ to ‘wow.’ Here are the most common tricks that pull buyers in:
If your home has been sitting on the market for a long while, maybe it is time to reevaluate. Start sprucing things up, including the best upgrades you can reasonably afford, and make sure everything about the house is appealing. Enlist the help of friends who will be blunt with their assessments. You might be surprised by how easily changing just a few key points will bump your house to the top of the ‘must have’ list for many buyers.
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This post was last modified on March 22, 2017 3:43 pm
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