Should I paint before I sell my home?
As people arrive to look at your Seattle home they are going to see the landscaping and outside of your home first. If there is a major problem with the paint job on the outside of your house, you need to get it fixed up pretty quickly so that you’ll have more chance of selling your home fast.
You may be wondering whether you should attempt an exterior painting job on your own or whether you should call in a Seattle professional painter to do the job. There are two sides to this question since you are not going to be owning this home for very long, so you don’t want to spend an extraordinary amount of money on fixing it up. On the other hand, you don’t want to just slap on some paint quickly and then have the homeowners deal with a bad paint job in a year. Morally, this wouldn’t be the right thing to do.
These kinds of questions often come up when a seller visits a Seattle real estate agent. An agent has dealt with all of these situations in the past and knows the best way to approach the problem.
In many cases an agent is hooked up with people that he knows can do an excellent job at a very affordable price. When you are considering putting your house on the market and talking to an agent, find out what he suggests about your exterior painting job and if he knows anyone that he trusts.
Exterior painting is a lot trickier than interior painting since it has to be able to withstand all sorts of weather conditions. Peeling and cracking can occur very quickly if a poor paint job is done. It is a better idea to take on interior painting yourself and leave the exterior paint jobs to a Seattle professional painter.
There are also a lot of different painting jobs that need to get done on the outside of the house. The door may have to be painted, there is trim around the windows and perhaps wood or siding that needs to be done.
Talk to your Seattle real estate agent before going ahead and doing any exterior painting. He will let you know exactly what needs to get done to make your house appear more attractive once it is put up for sale.
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