If your house is on the market chances are it has been listed for a while.
Now that the dog days of summer have past it is a good time to take a critical look at your home.
Everything from the condition of the sign out front to dead flowers in the beds has an impact on the buyers perceived value of your home. If things are undone, plants are scraggly, the sign is old and faded, someone driving buy to look is going to be less inclined to go inside where you have the best opportunity for them to fall in love or at least in like with your home
The good news is that these are easy fixes. Take an afternoon and get outside to weed and de-clutter garden spaces. Trim down or remove overgrown shrubs, sweep the sidewalk. If the "gutter" portion of the street in front of your home is littered with dead leaves or twigs that have blown out of the trees, spend some time there too. Obviously any litter must be removed.
Now go to the opposite side of the street and look at your home. This is what your neighbors and potential buyers driving by see. Hows it look? If it looks warm and inviting and tidy-you have the right idea.
If it still needs tweaking, buy some of the most vibrant mums you can from the local Home Improvement store(very inexpensive for the bang you get) or roadside stand. Leave them in the pots and arrange them to draw the eye to your homes entryway. Keep them watered and you have a very nice low commitment addition to your landscape that will last all the way through the first hard frost.
Make your home look loved, not leftover-you will be glad you did!
