Deferred Maintenance will cost you dearly!
You want to sell your home. Your agent prices it according to the market. But she also probably tells you that there are a lot of things to fix. A few window seals have broken and the windows are fogged. Dry rot is visible. The roof needs repairs if not renewal.
Oh, that, you might think, that is nothing, I am living with it for so long, what could it be?
It will be a LOT, in lost value that is. All the repairs you have not done over the years, the deferred maintenance, the cost for the new roof you put off, all that severely diminishes the value of your home and a buyer will take a much bigger discount from you with a low offer than it would have cost to keep the house up over the years.
In a recent transaction the accepted offer was 12% under the asking price. The amount the seller had to give to sell the house in as is condition was (after the repairs were priced) 8% more than what the repairs actually amounted to.
In this case that was $20000 just because the work was not done.
I highly recommend to keep up the house. Inspect it yourself from time to time and before you sell have a professional inspection done.
The cost of performing repairs yourself or pay for them before listing will be much less than an offer according to current condition PLUS repairs.
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