Over dinner recently I heard a story about a woman who had done everything right to prepare real estate to sell fast. This story happened in VA but it could have happened with Dunkirk, MD real estate or Las Vegas real estate or anywhere in the country.
The woman went through a divorce and she got the house, but decided to sell it so she could have a fresh start. It was a nice house in a nice neighborhood and had certainly increase in value since she and her ex-husband had purchased it in the 1980s. Still, it needed some attention. So to impress potential buyers she repainted and renovated the kitchen, got some landscaping help to re-do her front and backyards. And the most ambitious project of all was adding a brand new bathroom to the house. All of this work was costly and time-consuming. It was probably inconvenient to live in a house over a year or so with different renovation projects going on, but she put up with the inconveniences and supervised the work because she felt that she would be able to sell faster and for a better price with the improvements.
This woman was able to shed her attachment to her home as it been in the past and get the house ready for sale and her efforts paid off! The person telling the story was a neighbor and friend of the woman, so the friend had seen all of the changes right from across the street. The house has been sold... to a couple that decided to tear it down to build a brand new home with entirely different landscaping. The neighbor is horrified after her friend did all the work, but the seller has moved into a new place with a new boyfriend.
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