Selwyn Times: January 31, 2017
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Kea<br />
(Nestor Notabilis)<br />
LARE A 2 08<br />
est laborum."<br />
BY TOM DOUDNEY<br />
hopeful this is no the end.<br />
fortnight next year in March<br />
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LAREAA 2008<br />
est laborum."<br />
BY TOM DOUDNEY<br />
hopeful this is no the end.<br />
Rockhouse said.<br />
(entry from Countdown and McCauley Str et)<br />
(Nestor Notabilis)<br />
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Start out front, cleaning, clearing and<br />
decluttering the yard to make a good<br />
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It’s a rare house that doesn’t have defects.<br />
Even newly renovated ones can have<br />
features that detract for buyers. But there<br />
are ways for sellers to deflect attention<br />
from them without pretending they’re not<br />
there. The three main ways of dealing with<br />
defects are:<br />
1. Fix them.<br />
2. Draw the eye away from them.<br />
3. Use them as a selling point.<br />
Simple defects can be fixed easily. Start<br />
out front. Overgrown bushes can be<br />
trimmed, or replaced with a few matching<br />
plants, old fences and front doors can be<br />
painted or stained, and the paths cleaned.<br />
Do this even if a property is a do-up.<br />
You want to give the impression that<br />
buyers can move into the house and chip<br />
away at the work in their own time<br />
If you have time and money, paint sills<br />
and eaves using accents.<br />
Inside, the first thing buyers see is the<br />
hallway, which can be brightened up with<br />
a lick of paint. The neutral paint trick can<br />
also be used to paint over dated wallpaper,<br />
completely changing the look and feel of a<br />
tired house.<br />
Bathrooms and kitchens are important to<br />
buyers, and the eye settles on vanities and<br />
benches. These can be resurfaced relatively<br />
quickly to give a modern look.<br />
If the seller can’t repaint or tile the<br />
bathroom bring in high quality matching<br />
towels, which become a feature in the<br />
room and draw the eye from the less than<br />
desirable walls and features. Nice vases and<br />
flowers will do the same.<br />
Replacing handles and knobs to draw<br />
attention away from the units themselves.<br />
This reduces the number of “I have to do<br />
this” thoughts in potential buyers’ minds.<br />
Drawing the eye away from a multitude<br />
of sins is exactly the thing to do.<br />
If you see an empty house the eye always<br />
goes to marks on the carpet and walls and<br />
this will lower the price expectation.”<br />
Drawing the eye to the furniture and<br />
furnishings, creates better flow, and de<br />
cluttering makes buyers feel the home<br />
would be a nice place to live in.<br />
The other way to handle the property’s<br />
defects is to raise them with the buyer<br />
before they see them.<br />
If the carpet is bad, for example, you<br />
can say: “Hey, they were going to replace<br />
the carpet but they decided to leave it to<br />
you to choose a new carpet and priced it<br />
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those sins that are simply cleanable.<br />
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However, a lack of both volun-<br />
Celebrating <strong>Selwyn</strong> chairwoman “I think Celebrating <strong>Selwyn</strong> has a<br />
year but an organiser says she is from groups wishing to be involved have had to accep they didn’t have the is so much diversity out here but<br />
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