I know you hate to imagine swallowing 10 tough When Selling a Home handle the Tough thingspills when you’re thinking about selling a home, yet it happens. There can be some tough pills you have to deal with once that sign goes in the front yard and the sale doesn’t go as planned and you weren’t prepared for the outcome.
Handling the tough pills is the discussion here. The tough pills and how best to resolve them. You’ll be glad to learn now instead of learning the hard way, while you’re in the midst of selling your home. Swallow hard and let’s jump in.
Don’t expect dollar for dollar return from your lovely upgrades
Buyers will only pay what the local Real Estate market will bear and not what you spent. Unfortunately when you over improve, you risk losing the money you invested. Therefore, choose wisely.

A minor Kitchen remodel will recoup roughly 80% of your costs, which varies according to the area in which you live. An upgraded Kitchen however, can certainly have added appeal to bring in more interested Buyers. Simply know you cannot add the cost of the remodel to your home’s selling price.
Don’t let this discourage you however, as there are a few home feature replacements that will recoup over 100% of the cost. Now that’s good to hear. This good news will offset the fact that most will not come in at 100% coverage.
To brighten your mood, if you replace your front door with a new steel replacement door you can look at recouping your cost nicely at about 110% of the cost. You liked that good news, I’m sure! It’s short lived, as I must continue with the 9 other tough pills to swallow when selling a home. Let’s keep going. We buy houses in Jackson Ms.
Just because your neighbors home sold for such and such doesn’t mean your home will sell for the same amount of money
If I could tell you the number of times I’ve heard homeowners spout out that their neighbors home sold for $350,000 so their home should too, as they just love the home that they’ve lived in for the past 15 years. Little do they know that their neighbors home just had a complete Kitchen renovation. Do they think a Buyer will pay the same price for the home they’re trying to sell that has an outdated Kitchen with laminate countertops and cabinets? I bet you know the answer to that. Emotional attachment routinely gets in the way of making an educated decision regarding the home you want to sell. You simply need to trust the advice of a Real Estate professional who sells homes for a living, like I do.