Ugly House Secret No: 1

You make money when you buy. One of the biggest mis­takes ordin­ary folk make is not doing their home­work BEFORE pur­chas­ing and embark­ing on a renov­a­tion. To under­stand how much money you can afford to spend on your home, you need to know how much your home is worth. Edu­cate your­self before you renovate.

Ugly House Secret No: 2

Whether you are try­ing to gain equity on your home or your plan­ning on selling, on of the most import­ant steps is to de-clutter and do a massive clean-up around your prop­erty. I recom­mend to all of my stu­dents to put what they don’t need into stor­age. Even if your try­ing to ‘win over’ your valuer-er, its worth put­ting your junk into stor­age to present your home in pristine con­di­tion. Clut­ter is a major turnoff to poten­tial buy­ers. In fact it’s a known fact that most poten­tial buy­ers are often turned off a home that’s filled with stuff ran­ging from all of grand­mas old rel­ics to years of magazine col­lect­ing, bur­ied in the corner of the lounge room. ‘Clear out the old, and make way for the new’. Ps. (This tip alone, can add thousand’s onto your home)

Ugly House Secret No 3:

Spend­ing some well-earned $$ on your front yard has been known to bring upwards of $20,000 just by mak­ing some simple and low cost improve­ments to your front yard. Clean down all paths and drive­ways with a gurney. Use pav­ing paint to cre­ate a fresh and new look without the $$. A good garden lay­out with a well main­tained lawn will give poten­tial buy­ers the best ‘first impres­sion’ and it’s a known fact that people pay more for a job that’s well done.

Ugly House Secret No: 4

Clean it! – It seems obvi­ous, doesn’t it? And yet clean­ing prop­erly is often over­looked. Ima­gine you are shop­ping for a new laun­dry tub – as you run your hand over the shiny sil­ver tub, you ima­gine it in your new home…. Right?
Now ima­gine a slimy, dirty tub that doesn’t look like it’s been cleaned in a very long time… Right. Your whole home inside and out, needs to be spot­less. Shower recesses are another over­looked area. Engage a pro­fes­sional cleaner, if time is your enemy. The only people who buy homes like this are Ren­ov­at­ors! (For a bar­gain, that is!)

Ugly House Secret No: 5

Cre­ate and Stage your prop­erty to sell. Put together the final design of your newly cos­met­ic­ally ren­ov­ated home by com­plet­ing the home with fur­nish­ings that reflect the mar­ket­place. This is the emo­tional part, and you need to get this right to make massive profits.

Put your cre­at­ive skills to the test and cre­ate your best designer fin­ish. Your home’s value will be greatly increased if you take the time to fur­nish and dec­or­ate this properly.