Most Minnesota home sellers want to sell their homes as quickly as possible for a fair price. One way to speed up the selling of your home is to spruce up your landscaping.
The plants and trees around your house make for a beautiful frame. When you have nice landscaping, your home looks more luxurious and more people will usually want to look at it and buy it. In fact, experts estimate that homes with well-maintained and beautiful landscaping have a 10 percent higher value when sold.
The following tips are great for giving your landscaping a makeover and they can help you sell your home faster:
— Outdoor containers: Container plants are simply plants in pots, often large or medium-sized pots. These plants are a great way to make your patio more interesting and inviting.
— Get fresh mulch: Mulch degrades over time. Putting a fresh layer of much down will help freshen your garden beds. Fresh mulch makes the color of your landscaping, contrasted against your plants, look especially beautiful.
— Choose colorful plants: Consider getting creative with the colors of the plants you choose. Flowers can also add some vibrancy to your garden areas.
— Water fountains: Water fountains and stone-walled landscaping beds can add a lot of beauty to any yard.
— Trim overgrown shrubs and trees: If your shrubs and trees have dead branches and overgrowth, it’s important to trim them. Just like getting a fresh haircut, this can improve the look of your landscaping.
Once you’ve gotten your gardening and landscaping under control, it’s time to start trying to sell your house. Although many Minnesota residents only use a real estate agent to help them with the contractual and legal aspects of their home sales, an experienced real estate attorney can also be very beneficial to ensure that your real estate transactions are handled in a legally appropriate manner.
Source: HGTV, “Landscaping Tips That Can Help Sell Your Home,” accessed May 19, 2017