Comments on: Landscaping and it’s impact on your home sale price…

By: SpellingNazi

SpellingNazi — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:16:14 +0000

“Landscaping and it’s impact on your home sale price…”

is actually spelled

“Landscaping and its impact on your home sale price…”

By: andy capelluto

andy capelluto — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:19:59 +0000

This is exactly why I preach that every home – no matter what the price point must be staged and that includes ’shabby ramblers’ What you have accomplished here dear Reba is a perfect example of upgrading the curb appeal – enormously. That at the end of the day is what exterior staging is all about. The cost incurred was minimal and the changes will definitely get the houses noticed (rather than some seller think that he’s found a bargain or a tear down. ) Both these ‘after’ photos show homes with a far better ‘presence’
Good job – again!

By: Reba Haas

Reba Haas — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:42:08 +0000

Unfortunately the system doesn’t let me change the photo size to get all of the photo in here so some of them got cropped off. Sorry about that but not much I can do with it at the moment.

Joel, sometimes you can get a slightly better deal when there is no curb appeal but it’s no guarantee.

The 70’s house was done prior to my beginning to use a pro photographer so perhaps the color contrast isn’t perfect. There is no true “pink” there but the door was a salmon color in the after shot but it was also the chosen color palette from the paint supplier for that grouping and in person was quite striking – I personally wouldn’t have chosen it for my own home but for this development the color scheme fit right in to what the other homes had been updated to over the years. Believe me, it was WAY better than the original gray and maroon color combo that was truly dated and made the house a little depressing compared to the neighborhood.

The before and after of the one story home are going to be different kinds of shots because one is taken by me and the other by the photographer I use. He has wide angle lenses and I don’t. I would have had to post several more photos to show the full exterior and I chose not to to save space – simple enough.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:12:25 +0000

Remind me to avoid looking at houses with good landscaping. I’d hate to pay (on a half mil house) $35k to $75k for a couple hundred bucks worth of landscaping. In fact, is that a good way to find bargains? Look at houses with crappy landscaping?

By: Bill Waters

Bill Waters — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:00:45 +0000

Pink trin and a white door to white trim and a pink door. Why?!?

By: czb

czb — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:55:14 +0000

As with most before and after pictures, there are many features in these pictures that seem to deter from the aesthetic appeal of the former while enhancing that of the latter. Kind of like those plastic surgery examples in airline magazines where the patients are pasty-skinned, somber, shabbily dressed, in a poorly lit and unappealing setting in the ‘before’ pictures but smiling and tan in the midst of a tropical paradise in the picture after their mole removal or tummy-tuck. This is particularly true of the first house shown, where the ‘before’ picture is simply a closeup of a wall with two shrubs. The house definitely looks better after pruning the bushes – it even sprouted a patio and garden furniture. The appearance of the large tree in the second series of pictures and focus on the more appealing (ie non-garage) part of the house in the ‘after’ picture has a similar effect. I think Reba’s point is a good one, but the examples provided seem somewhat deceptive. I doubt that nice landscaping will raise the house value by 7-15% any more, but the extra investment in time and $$ may actually mean your house gets sold rather than sitting indefinitely like the non-landscaped ones for sale next door…

By: R Duke

R Duke — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:05:59 +0000

Oh,
Plus,they added a mighty fine new pink front door,prolly to attract those pink ponys Sniglet was talkin about,Im startin to “get”it

By: R Duke

R Duke — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:01:34 +0000

Jillayne,
I dont really agree w/”stubby rambler” in first set of photos.I for one think thats a fine looking mo-bile home listing Reba got her self a hold of there.
The second house,its the angle from the street that crops the huge pine.
I like this site,you guys are funny.Reba seems to have a sense of humor,that chicken little gimmick was great.

By: Jillayne Schlicke

Jillayne Schlicke — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:23:24 +0000

Huge?

I really don’t mean to be too terribly critical here, but in the first set of photos, the shorn down shrubbery still doesn’t make the house look any less like a stubby rambler.

In the second photo, the shrubs appear to only have undergone a mild pruning and there’s now a huge pine tree in the front yard, even though the picture is closer to the house. The before picture doesn’t have the pine tree.

I don’t see landscaping in the photos.
I do see teensy weensy flower pots in the “after” shot of the first set and I see flower boxes on the basement windows in the second set.

A more accurate title would have been, “easy, fast, and inexpensive ways to cheer up your home exterior.”

Please let us know if these (and only these) changes netted the seller 7 to 15% more.

By: Deborah Burns

Deborah Burns — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:23:15 +0000

I just came back from watering one out-of-state clients lawn and flowers, then stopping by a home I will be listing in a few weeks to let the homeowner know that I will be trimmng the ornamental pine and overgrown rhodies in the entry to open up the house, and voila! Here is a great example of why with before and after shots…good illustration!