The past two to three weeks Bob and I have been helping my son-in-law and daughter get a house they have inherited ready to sell. I have painted for a couple of weeks and Bob washed all the windows inside and out and cleaned the woodwork and cabinets and then applied some stain to them to freshen them up.
We have, along with my daughter and granddaughter, painted every room in the house and taken the wallpaper off two rooms and painted those walls too. All the rooms were painted off white, beige or tan . When we finished that, we had the twenty year old carpet cleaned and it looked great.
They had not listed the house because we just finished the painting on Saturday. Then Tuesday evening a realtor called them and asked to show the house. He showed it and then obtained a contract on it. It appears the sale will go through. They are to sign a contract tonight.
Talk about quick!
Of course all that painting and cleaning made a vast improvement. That just clarifies my belief that if a house is kept clean and crisp, the property will sell. We have sold a number of houses over the years and none of them has been on the market more then a month.
The housing market may be in the cellar everywhere else but in southeast Kansas, housing is in short supply and the market is fine.
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