Articles Tagged "Home Maintenance"

Paint Color Matters When You're Selling Your Home

Next to location, curb appeal is one of the most important factors you can focus on when you're selling your home. It helps you make sure your home is sold quickly and at a price you're happy with. Why? The answer is simple – curb appeal creates the first impression any potential buyer gets of a property.

While you can't pick up a house and move it to a better neighborhood, you can update its exterior. Naturally, the first thing to consider is a new paint job. Then, you can refresh your interior spaces in the same way.

A quick coat of paint on the outside of a home completely changes its look. Not only can it revitalize an aging exterior, it also sets expectations for the kind of space you're about to enter when you step through the door.

People know they need to tone down "unique" colors when they are ready to sell. Very few, however, have a clear idea what to switch to. An analysis by Zillow using more than 32,000 photos of recently sold homes provides interesting clues.

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Owning a home takes time, effort, and care – you're sure to find yourself thinking about things you never considered before. Take your home's rain gutters for example. They're so easy to forget, but the truth is your whole house could depend on them.

The purpose of rain gutters is to stop water from pooling and collecting on your roof where it can cause damage. When gutters are clean and well-maintained, they let rain water run off freely. With proper landscaping, water is deposited safely away from the house.

But that's only part of the story.

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