Landscaping and Home Sales
An easy way of understanding the importance of lots and landscaping to the resale value of a home is to think of realty like fishing. The lot and landscape acts as the delicious bait that is dangled in front of the potential buyer. For each different species of buyer, and each different neighborhood you may need a different sort of bait. The bait should be enough to attract attention without drawing unnecessary attention to itself. Once the buyer notices and takes the bait they can easily be reeled into the home, not to be eaten, but to fully appreciate all of the home’s unique characteristics and unmatched charm.
Lot and Landscaping
You could own the most opulent palace ever to grace the eyes of a mortal, but if this palace looks like a rundown shack outside, no one will ever come in. Many people will put their houses up for sale without considering the importance of grooming the lot and tending to the landscaping and this is a major mistake. Nothing turns off a potential buyer like an overgrown lawn full of weeds in which a broken down jalopy is slowly decomposing. As the old adage goes, nothing is quite as poignant as a first impression. First impressions are often superficial so truly they do not give someone a good idea of what’s on the inside. That said, people will rarely approach others who are unkempt and disheveled to find out what sort of people they are on the inside and similarly most people will be scared of a house that looks awful on the outside, as nice as it may be on the inside.
So regardless of whether it’s what’s on the inside that counts, nobody will make it to the inside if they are repulsed by what’s on the outside. In terms of resale value, a home’s lot and landscape are obviously very important. The lot and landscape contribute heavily to a home’s “curb appeal,” meaning they will either attract or repel people instantly as they pull up to the home or gaze at it from across the street. “Curb appeal” refers to how a home looks from a distance. There are certain factors that will always improve a home’s “curb appeal” and therefore contribute to its resale value. Most of these things are inexpensive factors to address, but they play a significant part in whether or not a home will resonate in the mind of a potential buyer.
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