What can I do around my house to make the appraisal price go up, but not have to spend a lot of money doing it

Answer 1

As an appraiser here is some advice. First and foremost the real value lies with square footage, # of bathrooms, bedrooms, finished/unfinished basement and condition. Since you are not changing the structural components of your house you should focus on the condition (interior and exterior). Your biggest bang for your buck is paint. I also would declutter, power wash siding, stucco, deck, fencing etc. and manicure your landscaping. This will not boost your value tremendously but it can help when the appraiser looks at the condition versus other comps in your area.

Answer 2

I just bought a property that needed some working on and I needed to rent out. There is only so much you can do to boost the value of your house, especially if the roof, foundation, or something obvious needs a ton of work, but there are simple recommendations that really sell a house.

Some of these ideas that work are to replace outlets and covers with brand new ones, fix small sections of broken sheetrock or use spackle to fill holes in walls, replace old dull lights with shiny metallic new ones or recessed lighting, repaint or restain kitchen cabinets, as well as updating the handles on cabinets to look new. Clean up big messes. Especially, and most importantly, the best thing to sell the inside of a house is all new paint.

New paint runs 100-200 dollars to repaint an entire house of 7-8 rooms. New outlets and covers would cost 50-80 dollars for a whole house. New metallic or recessed lights in Lowe's or Home Depot can surprisingly be bought for only 20-40 dollars, and there are always clearance items on sale. Spackle and sheetrock only cost 10-20 dollars for a massive 4x8 foot sheet and a bucket of joint compound. Spending 20 dollars on new compact fleurescent lights will brighten the whole house, and brand new handles for all the cabinets would cost less than 50 dollars. The glue on Kitchen floor or bathroom tiles only cost 50-80 cents each.

Cleaning up the yard and doing some landscaping is free as long as you have the tools. Organizing a garage will make the house much more attractive as well. Get rid of any strange smells by cleanup or Lysol, and POOF, you have just made the house much more likely to sell quick for not much cost at all. Compared with new siding and roof for 20,000, those are some things you can do for a total of about 500 dollars that will really make your house stand out.

Answer 3

make it look inviting to potential buyers, clean it if not already, they say to put somethings in storage because the less clutter the rooms look bigger, paint if need be, make sure the outside is clutter free and do some low cost landscaping they have to like the outside to even get them interested on the inside a lot of people do drive buys first. if you are a smoker don't smoke in the house clean carpets etc. if you have out-dated wallpaper remove it and paint.

Answer 4

Paint (a neutral color) and some of those peel and stick tiles for the floors (kitchen, bathroom). If you can, clean the carpets. It gives the house a whole "new" look.

Answer 5

Are you talking about the appraisal value or the Market Value. Two different things for two different reasons. Please clarify.