should you repaint your apartment before listing for sale in new york city we'll
demystify this topic in the following video i'm Nick at Hauseit visit
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so whenever a potential seller contacts us one of the first questions or most
common questions is whether or not they should repaint the apartment prior to
listing now we don't have a
clear yes or no answer to this question because of the fact that of course the
conditions in your particular home are are very case dependent
in general we're a bit hesitant to say that you should always repaint because a
lot of the times the effort and time involved with doing
the repaint may potentially push the listing time
further away from the most optimal time in other words like let's say you were
ready to list it and this was like mid-april but by the time you bid out
the paint job deal with the management of your building and the paperwork you
don't list it until mid-may we would view that as being a net negative in
terms of how it would impact the you know likelihood of achieving the most
amount of demand for your property and a lot of clients they don't
necessarily think about that when deciding when to
you know for example contact us to initiate the discussion about selling if
they had you know thought about that in like march and they had allotted that
time for a potential repaint then certainly it would be a no-brainer
because the property would be ready to list be fully repainted
just in time for the optimal listing time frame which is you know generally
ideally in the in the spring the other factor to to decide whether or
not a repaint makes sense is the impact it has you know in terms of your
personal living situation i mean obviously an apartment is easier
to sell if you know the walls are perfectly
white and you've just repainted but you know if that's going to result in you
having to derail your work and having to move furniture and you know especially
if there's plastering involved and dust and things like that the last thing you
want to do is is induce like a whole bunch of stress to the equation of
selling which as a whole can be you know stressful
on its own so think a little bit about whether you
know you can actually personally handle the stress and inconvenience of you know
repainting your property prior to listing
now the other thing to consider too as to whether or not you should repaint
is to think whether there's a way you can narrow the scope of the work so that
the cost and the timeline doesn't just blow out
and by that we mean you know for example if there are specific walls that are you
know basically having the the most amount of damage and disproportionately
you know contain all of the damage in the property then you should take care
of those specific walls for example the entry to an apartment you know you might
have a coat rack you might have a seating area where you you know tie your
shoelaces that potentially might have a lot of scuffs and it might just be one
narrowly defined wall so that's a really easy thing to repaint you could do it
yourself you could hire a handyman and therefore you don't need to go through
the whole laborious process of you know the paperwork with your condo building
cost and and you know time and delay and overruns and such
so consider in other words painting specific walls
and also depending on what type of paint you have in your home you could also
potentially get away with with spot cleaning you know assuming you're not
using like a completely flat paint a lot of these
types of paints have you know some sort of a cleaning agent in the in the
actual coating so it allows you to do some minor cleaning and and
otherwise do you know deal with not having to repaint while improving the
condition but obviously if you have flat paint or
if you have you know so many scuffs everywhere that it's just you know
ridiculous then you know just go ahead and paint the whole wall also make sure
that you you consider repainting things that are in in sight lines you know if
you enter the apartment and there's one specific wall that you're looking at
that wall has got to be perfect and similarly if your apartment is a
more of a dark apartment you know you don't really have like southern exposure
maybe you're facing the back of the building
in that case lighting is really important so that would be a scenario
where we actually would strongly encourage you to
you know consider a full repaint irrespective of the consequences about
you know being inconvenient and potentially delaying the process
so we hope this was helpful and of course if you'd like a more specific
recommendation and general guidance for your particular home if you are thinking
of selling give us a shout we'd love to help we can save you up to six percent
in commission through our assisted fsbo service and we also have our one percent
full service listing option available here in new york city so we'd love to
connect with you visit our website hauseit.com or send an email to
team@hauseit.com i'm Nick at Hauseit and we'll see you on the next video