Spring Time Gardening Tips For your Home in Bryan College Station

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If you are in the process of selling your home in Bryan or College Station, then you know the importance of appearance. Many homes that sell quickly have a nice looking inside and a yard to match. The upkeep of the exterior of your home could be the key to getting potential buyers to stop and look around.

Having a clean and maintained exterior is great, but a nice way to step up your home’s selling value is with tasteful landscaping or a garden. During the spring a wide array of flowers are blooming and their colors could help sell the house. Here are a few spring time gardening tips to consider:

• Touch up the flower or garden beds in your yard. Most people are starting to add annual flowers to their gardens at this time, and so should you. These fast blooming flowers add a quick splash of color to the yard. It is also a great time to do any maintenance work the garden bed may need. Raised garden beds may need to have their walls reinforced and all the winter debris cleared away.

• Add a flower bed or a few flower boxes around your porch or walkways. This is a great idea for homeowners without a garden or with a garden located in the back of the home. Flower boxes are fairly inexpensive to add to your landscape, and can be filled with annual flowers. Flower beds take a little more work than flower boxes, but can drastically increase the appeal of the house.

• Spread fresh mulch around existing shrubs and plants. A fresh layer of mulch after a long winter can benefit shrubs and trees, and it will help reduce the amount of weeds growing near the plants.

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Spruce Up Your Home for A Spring Sell

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After doing the market research and paperwork associated with putting a house for sale the real fun begins. At this point you really need to focus on the appearance of the house. The nicer the home looks the more successful your sell is likely to be.

While the outside of your home should have a nice appearance you are going to want to make the inside look good for open house and walk through events. A fresh, clean interior that matches both the home and season gives a home an inviting feel. Here are a few ideas to start sprucing up the inside of your home:

• Clean all the light fixtures in the home. The globs and outer casings of lights can attract a lot of dust and debris. Taking these down for a good wash can do wonders for brightening up the house. You should dust and clean any lamp shades in the home too.

• Replace damaged light and plug covers or update the old ones. Light switch and plug covers are often overlooked by homeowners trying to sell their house, but clean covers that blend nicely with the rooms always look better than dirty or gaudy covers.

• Chance the curtains and the linens in the house. Washing or replacing the curtains and linens can really freshen up the look, smell, and feel of the house.

• Remove any odors. Air fresheners and nice scented candles can add a new scent to the house, making it more appealing to the senses. You can also use carpet deodorizers to remove any odors.

• Clean up clutter. If you have any clutter in your home pick it up. Make sure laundry makes it into the hamper, and that all trash and recycling makes it to the appropriate containers.

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Open house viewings and walk through events are a key component to selling your house. You can contact your local RE/MAX agent, Sarah Miller , for more great ideas on how to spruce up your home.

The Importance of Home Maintenance in Bryan College Station

                                                        

Many times a person will put their house on the market and never do much else to improve the home. Some will even leave repairs and cleaning up for the agent and buyer to deal with later. This is a horrible idea if you want to get top price for your house.

While you do not have to do major repairs to the house, you should keep up with regular maintenance and do small repairs. Often the neglect of those small things can turn off potential buyers, and it may lead to larger problems later on.

Repairing any holes in the walls or floors is a must. Smaller holes can be easily repaired in a day with a handful of supplies from your local hardware store. You may need to hire someone to repair larger holes. Make sure to put a fresh coat of paint on the walls after repairs are finished.

Replace caulking and seals around windows, drains, sinks, and bathtubs. This is normal routine maintenance for any home, and it will also make the home look cleaner and well kept. If you are just a little handy then you can get this done on your own in a day or two.

Keep up maintenance on the porch and any fencing. The outside of the house applies to curb appeal, and a porch in good repair looks better and safer than one that fallen into disrepair. After any needed repair a fresh coat of paint can help attract buyers.

Keep gutters clean and in good shape. The gutters on a house can clog up quickly if not maintained. Standing water in the gutter could attract pests that would detour potential buyers. It could also cause unattractive water erosion on the ground around the house.

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Your Bryan College Station RE/MAX realtor, Sarah Miller, can help you discover a lot of great tips for making a profitable and fast sell on your house.  She is one of the RE/MAX Bryan-College Station realtors that has a long list of the finest homes for sale in  Bryan College Station, Call her today at 979-255-1904.