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Originally Posted by Papa Muzzy
We want to put our Courtyard Villa on the market. Realtors all have their own opinions on how to "improve" it's selling points. It has some great selling points already. All new SS appliances. It's in Duval which seems to be selling pretty well still. Comes furnished if wanted, Carpet only in bedrooms etc.....
What are the things you would look for aside from the obvious basic maintenance?
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We moved from a 2500 sf home built in '97 in August to a villa down here. Our house sold one day later. Our appliances were the ones we had bought 6 years earlier, but they were top brands. We had all the carpeting removed and wood-like floors put in ALL the rooms (except toilets and bathrooms). We had a fix or two on the roof. We had new screens put on the windows AND a new screen on the bird cage. We had a relatively inexpensive landscaping done for show; we had the entire interior repainted, and, finally, we had the garage floor epoxied. We asked a pretty high price and got it.
Yeah, we worked our buns off for 3 months, every day and night, but it paid off. I was absolutely shocked at the swiftness of the purchase. But, we didn't have any granite counter tops. Granite is going bye-bye anyway, plus it tends to be too porous. AND OH, I almost forgot. We had purchased a home appliance warranty which we DONATED to the newcomers when they bought. Sometimes it takes a lot of small things that grab the prospective buyer.