New job? Need a bigger house? Estate sale? Whatever your reasons for selling, you are faced with a challenging task. Experts recommend that you start by fixing the things that you have been meaning to fix all along. If they drive you crazy, they will drive potential buyers crazy too.
Before you start updating faucets and changing the knobs on your kitchen cabinets, consider what potential buyers first see the outside. Sure, some flowers help. Moving the kids’ toys into the shed? That helps too. But, buyers have much to choose from and are more savvy than ever. They will be checking out the roof, the gutters and the soffits of your house as they arrive. Don’t let these items stand in the way of you and a profitable sale.
Get on a ladder, or call a Mount Pleasant roofing company to do it for you, and check out the top of your house before you host your first Open House. Are there missing shingles, tiles? Is the roof moldy? Look at the gutters. Are they clean? Are they sagging, broken? Do end caps need to be resealed? Carefully check your soffits.