hmm should I paint my house before I list it and if I do will I get more money
stay tuned for a realtor's opinion.
Hi I'm Brenda K with the Halifax home selling group this is the sweet miss Frankie thank you
so much for tuning in to our channel where we talk about anything and everything to do with
real estate please subscribe if you enjoy our videos and you'll receive a new one
each week so you know people always ask me should I paint before I sell and it depends on a couple
of things I'm going to address maybe downsizing so I was 25 years in a in a home and i had some
rooms well 10 plus years since they've been painted remember the houses of the 80s and the
90s the living in the dining room you know when did you use the living room and dining room uh
we used it at Christmas my dining room was still baby blue one wall wallpaper with the matching
valance on it but I was never in there so never really seemed to bother me when I sold I
definitely definitely had to change that so I'm going to tell you a story i love telling stories
great clients back several years ago and they also lived in one of these
houses that were built in the early 90s you know like I said living room dining room kitchen uh the
when i went in we do have a stager on my team and she was with me when we went in and we always know
the paint colors and we referred to the kitchen as pink and she said uh no she said that's salmon
color but to us it looked pink the master bedroom was lime green and she loved it and that didn't
look really bad but we're trying to get a house ready for the market so it's not your home anymore
it's a house for sale on the market so she disagreed with painting and we put it out on the
market at the end of the day you know we can lead a horse to water we cannot make you drink so we
went ahead and we listed it as is so what happened we're getting all kinds of views on realtor.ca I
monitor what realtors have looked at it had like a few showings on it just said why what's going on
this is when this is when our technology steps up because I love it that I can track these things
but I'm going to tell you two things okay buyers buyers are lazy I mean they're lazy
and millennials they want instant gratification they want it moving ready they don't want to have
to go in and doing any work they also the buyers shop online they start their home search online
I'm not kidding you they will pass by a house if they see it's too much work of of just painting I
had a client a few years ago and she would not go look at the house because almost every room
was painted orange and I said just paint and um yeah she said but that's just way more work than
I want to take on so buyers they definitely will disqualify themselves by looking at the picture
online so at this point uh she did decide that she was going to paint those two rooms and Ta-Da!
Three weeks later we had an offer our showings almost doubled and I had some really really happy
clients and they were shocked that online people could make that big of a decision online so they
definitely can so what colors what's trending go on to uh Pinterest that's one of my favorite sites
I don't know how many boards I got in there um and see what's trending in colors and style maybe
the new wallpaper you can call a local realtor hello I don't mind at all I was just at someone's
uh past clients mine's going to be selling their home in about 12 months we went over some things
I'm always available to go through the the house with you so let's talk wallpaper so wallpaper uh
as I said mine in the dining room I had put it on the 90s i knew i could steam it get it off pretty
easily so I did and I painted the wall you know but if it's an old house you know one I was in one
the other day 1959 yeah 1959 in wallpaper almost everywhere everywhere so couple things on that you
don't know what it was put on with hey you don't know what it was put on with you don't really know
what's behind it so you don't try and take it all down well and sometimes you know like my really
senior clients they just don't have the ability to do it so just in that case just reduce the price
and then whoever the buyer whatever the buyer wants to do when he goes in
he can change it especially if it's an old house he might even decide he's just going to put some
some gyprock up so yes fresh paint really makes a difference and doesn't it it just looks so clean
and it smells so fresh so you know even the baseboards baseboards get so toughed up like
scuffed up you never think about it walk in an entryway it's just been painted the baseboards
are gleaming white paint yes get you more money not necessarily will it make you more desirable
absolutely no question no question so so that is the topic of the day I'm just going to turn
my little girl around here so to paint or not to paint that is the question all right let's go on
with the stats here and see what is happening so right now we only have 735 active listings just
doing the Halifax Dartmouth area by the way guys new listings 93. we had 144 sell so we quite a few
more sell that that came active days on market were 36 and the average selling price was 388
000 so if you'd like more information on staging you can click the link below we will drop one of
our ultimate home selling books off to you in the mail and check out this next video on
the desirability factors I'm Brenda K this is the sweet miss Frankie we'll see you next week cheers
should i paint my house before i list it and if i do will i get more money
stay tuned for a realtor's opinion
hi i'm brenda k with the halifax home selling group this is the sweet miss frankie thank you so
much for tuning in to our channel where we talk about anything and everything to do with real
estate please subscribe if you enjoy our videos and you'll receive a new one each week so you know
people always ask me should i paint before i sell and it depends on a couple of things i'm going to
address maybe downsizing so i was 25 years in a in a home and i had some rooms well 10 plus years
since they've been painted remember the houses of the 80s and the 90s the living in the dining room
you know when did you use a living room and dining room uh we used it at christmas my dining room
was still baby blue one wall wallpaper with the matching valance on it but i was never in there so
never really seemed to bother me when i sold i definitely definitely had to change that so
i'm going to tell you a story i love telling stories uh great clients back several years ago
and they also lived in one of these houses that were built in the early 90s you know like i said
living room dining room kitchen uh the when i went in we do have a stager on my team and she was with
me when we went in and we always know the paint colors and we referred to the kitchen as pink and
she said uh no she said that's salmon color but to us it looked pink the master bedroom was
lime green and she loved it and that didn't look really bad but we're trying to get a
house ready for the market so it's not your home anymore it's a house for sale on the market so
she disagreed with painting and we put it out on the market at the end of the day you know
we can lead a horse to water we cannot make you drink so we went ahead and we listed it as is
so what happened we're getting all kinds of views on realtor.ca i i monitor what
realtors have looked at it yeah had like a few showings on it just said why what's going on
this is when this is when our technology steps up because i i love it that i can track these things
but i'm going to tell you two things okay buyers buyers are lazy i mean they're lazy
and millennials they want instant gratification they want it moving ready they don't want to have
to go in and doing any work they also the buyers shop online they start their home search online
i'm not kidding you they will pass by a house if they see it's too much work of of just painting i
had a client a few years ago and she would not go look at the house because almost every room
was painted orange and i said just paint and um yeah she said but that's just way more work than
i want to take on so buyers they definitely will disqualify themselves by looking at the picture
online so at this point she did decide that she was going to paint those two rooms and tada
three weeks later we had an offer our showings almost doubled and i had some really really happy
clients and they were shocked that online people could make that big of a decision online so they
definitely can so what colors what's trending go on to pinterest that's one of my favorite sites
i don't know how many boards i got in there and see what's trending in colors and style maybe the
new wallpaper you can call a local realtor hello i don't mind at all i was just at someone's uh past
client's mind is going to be selling their home in about 12 months we went over some things i'm
always available to go through the the house with you so let's talk wallpaper so wallpaper
as i said mine in the dining room i had put it on the 90s i knew i could steam it get it off pretty
easily so i did and i painted the wall you know but if it's an old house you know one i was in one
the other day 1959 yeah 1959 in wallpaper almost everywhere everywhere so couple things on that you
don't know what it was put on with hey you don't know what it was put on with you don't really know
what's behind it so you don't try and take it all down well and sometimes you know like my really
senior clients they just don't have the ability to do it so just in that case just reduce the price
and then whoever the buyer whatever the buyer wants to do when he goes in
he can change it especially if it's an old house he might even decide he's just going to put some
some chip rock up so yes fresh paint really makes a difference and doesn't it it just looks so clean
and it smells so fresh so you know even the baseboards get so toughed up it's like scuffed
up you never think about it walk in an entryway it's just been painted the baseboards are gleaming
white paint yes get you more money not necessarily will it make you more desirable absolutely no
question no question so so that is the topic of the day i'm just going to turn my little girl
around here so to paint or not to paint that is the question check out this next video on
the desirability factors i'm brenda k this is the sweet miss frankie we'll see you next week cheers
you