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Originally Posted by vintageogauge
We are in the process of making this same decision on our home up north to sell this coming spring. We have found that in our neighborhood (20 years old) most buyers are younger executives and as we have watched our neighbors homes being sold, with the exception of one, they completely remodeled these homes before moving in. There was one that was totally re-done before listing and it went for the lowest price of all of the recently sold units. We don't know what to do, all of our woodwork is natural stained and today everyone seems to want white woodwork which I don't agree with as you can never bring it back. Since we already have granite and mostly hardwood floors in the living area I think we are just going to go the touch up and heavy cleaning route, price it a little below competition and see what happens.
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I agree with you.
Location is key as well. Our kids bought low in a terrific school district, did very little but had a big yard. First open house, five over- price offers, sold in a day.
We kept our Michigan condo updated except for the oak kitchen cabs. Cleaned and decluttered extensively, but kept the eclectic wall colors. First person through bought it.
It was on water. So consider the popularity of your location as well. Other than decluttering, you may not have to do as much as you think.