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is your house ready?
THINKING OF SELLING

WHAT INTERIOR WORK “NEEDS” TO BE DONE?

One of the mistakes people make is That is when we suggest to spend a small
thinking they need to spend tens of amount of cash to just update and refresh

thousands of dollars to upgrade a an area. As it could turn a potential buyer

kitchen or a bathroom so that they can off to see the amount of work they have
get more on the Sale. to put into the home.

This isn’t necessarily needed – the one So take a look, is it clean, tidy, functional,

word I want you to remember is “EASY”. able to be easily changed/modified. Work
on any little things like tighten those loose

A buyer could have seen your kitchen doorknobs or patch up some superficial
when your house was listed at cracks and if you really want to do a little

$600,000k and liked it, or even thought modernizing change out the kitchen
to themselves “I could upgrade this” or backsplash, and update those light

even “I like this!”. fixtures if you like.. Move on.

However, with upgrading a kitchen Save your money for your next home,

purely for resale, the sale cost rises say maybe even a spa...
to $640,000k and essentially it is the

buyer’s money you’ve used to do it up.
And they might not like how you spent

their $40,000k on the kitchen.

If a buyer can look at a dated kitchen

or bathroom and see it is EASY to
upgrade or change – or its easy to use

and live with then you’re fine.

But if you are not selling/marketing your
home as a reno do -up and the

bathroom has a half tiled walls, leaky
taps, water stains on the floorboards

etc – then here’s another word “WORK”.