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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

thinking they need to spend tens of small amount of cash to just update and
thousands of dollars to upgrade a refresh an area. As it could turn a

kitchen or a bathroom so that they can potential buyer off to see the amount of

get more on the Sale. work they have to put into the home.

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

word I want you to remember is “EASY”. functional, able to be easily

changed/modified. Work on any little
A buyer could have seen your kitchen things like tighten those loose doorknobs

when your house was listed at or patch up some superficial cracks and

$600,000k and liked it, or even thought if you really want to do a little

to themselves “I could upgrade this” or modernizing change out the kitchen

even “I like this!”. backsplash, and update those light
fixtures if you like.. Move on.

However, with upgrading a kitchen

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

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”.