The Star: February 14, 2019

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Fix those minor
defects
Start out front, cleaning, clearing and decluttering
the yard to make a good impression on buyers.
It’s a rare house that doesn’t have
defects. Even newly renovated ones
can have features that detract for
buyers. But there are ways for sellers
to deflect attention from them without
pretending they’re not there. The three
main ways of dealing with defects are:
1. Fix them.
2. Draw the eye away from them.
3. Use them as a selling point.
Simple defects can be fixed easily.
Start out front. Overgrown bushes can
be trimmed, or replaced with a few
matching plants, old fences and front
doors can be painted or stained, and
the paths cleaned.
Do this even if a property is a do-up.
You want to give the impression that
buyers can move into the house and
chip away at the work in their own
time.
If you have time and money, paint
sills and eaves using accents.
Inside, the first thing buyers see is
the hallway, which can be brightened
up with a lick of paint. The neutral
paint trick can also be used to paint
over dated wallpaper, completely
changing the look and feel of a tired
house.
Bathrooms and kitchens are
important to buyers, and the eye settles
on vanities and benches. These can be
resurfaced relatively quickly to give a
modern look.
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If the seller can’t repaint or tile
the bathroom bring in high quality
matching towels, which become a
feature in the room and draw the eye
from the less than desirable walls and
features. Nice vases and flowers will do
the same.
Replacing handles and knobs to
draw attention away from the units
themselves. This reduces the number
of “I have to do this” thoughts in
potential buyers’ minds.
Drawing the eye away from a
multitude of sins is exactly the thing
to do.
If you see an empty house the eye
always goes to marks on the carpet
and walls and this will lower the price
expectation.”
Drawing the eye to the furniture and
furnishings, creates better flow, and de
cluttering makes buyers feel the home
would be a nice place to live in.
The other way to handle the
property’s defects is to raise them with
the buyer before they see them.
If the carpet is bad, for example,
you can say: “Hey, they were going to
replace the carpet but they decided to
leave it to you to choose a new carpet
and priced it accordingly.”
Finally, good old fashioned elbow
grease is essential in all properties
to remove those sins that are simply
cleanable.
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