Selling a property, house and garden, is no easy feat, as no matter how great it looks and how cheap you sell, competition never sleeps. So how can you be on top of your game and convince the potential buyers your property is their next dream home? There are any tips and tricks even your real estate agent will teach you, but today, as lawn and landscape experts, we will give you eight outdoor tips to leverage your chances. Lawn and landscape improving is just as important as house improving and trust us, if your outdoor landscape doesn’t convince the buyers to come in and see the house you want to sell in Murphy, nothing will.
Evaluate, prevent and intervene in time. As we said, there is a fierce competition waiting around the corner and let’s not forget that we have more than 30 million acres of lawns across the country, so being proactive is the way to go if you want to sell good. Before taking actions, have a lawn and landscape professional assess the situation, the needs, make a full diagnose on the surroundings and recommend some immediate treatment in case it is needed, like pest or weed control or disease removal.
Outdoor house improvement. Painting the house foundation is quite common for sellers, as they can revamp a house only by this, camouflage some old-time deposited grime and hide some errors, not to mention giving a nice background to the shrubs and greenery you will plant soon. Starting with $250 and reaching $500 depending on the house size, a professional can do it in a jiffy.
Add new mulch cover and clean the bed lines. A lawn and a yard can look lush and welcoming if you spend around $45 to $70 per cubic yard of mulch (covers about 10 feet x 12 feet) on a professional service and clean and contour the bed lines for a…
Fresh shrub and tree plantation. Nobody wants to see dead and dry trees and shrubs giving the place a gritty look. You can plant new greenery, hedges included, and you can take the opportunity to hide all the unpleasant portions of the land or of the building. Professional companies will do a full revamping of your lawn and yard starting at about $100, depending on what hedges, shrubs and trees fit best your needs for beauty and camouflage.
Having new trees and shrubs is not enough, they need professional trimming and pruning. You try to repair your own car or not laugh at your neighbor’s DIY whacky haircut. If you want to sell the property, tree and shrubs pruning should be left in the care of professionals, who know exactly what to cut and when in order to avoid some catastrophic looking result. At about $40 to $60 per hour, you should not waste time.
Color your yard sweet and appealing for the customers. There are a few tricks some professionals can do to brighten up the outdoor space, as you need to inflict powerful emotions into your buyers. Planting some vivid colored flowers and annuals is one way, adding a colored container for a finished and welcoming look is something you can do by yourself and adding a few colorful spots here and there (with taste and artistic perspective) sometimes sells better than all the indoor appliances you bought. A professional can charge you with $20 to $300 for a job well done.
Upgrade the lawn to its best look. Do you have empty, sad looking lawn patches? Install some sods then. Does the grass look chaotic and depressed? Call in some experts to do a proper mowing and trimming and don’t forget about edging, as it gives the whole place a finished, ordered aspect. Getting rid of the weeds is common sense, so for all this trouble, an expert might empty your pockets of $25 to $60 for mowing an area of 5,000 square foot and $50 to $65 for fertilization and weed removal for the same surface. Sod is $12 to $15 per square foot so selling big might need some investment which will pay off in the end.
No dirt should be allowed anywhere. You wouldn’t buy a house where the driveway, the walkways and the porch are so dirty, you have your shoes stuck in grime. So a wise idea is to call in some people with power washers and make the dirt disappear without a trace. For $500 or less you can rest assured you won’t sell a negligent and messy looking property.
As a conclusion…
You don’t just want to sell and run away with the money never looking back, right? Environment responsibility shouldn’t be exceeded by the prospects of a good deal, so instead of just trimming here and there to make the surroundings look good, you should genuinely care for the health of the lawn and the landscape. A healthy lawn, well aerated, with strong turf, fertilized properly and free of weeds, pests and disease does not only increase property value, but does the environment a world of good.
