TWO CENTIMETER ROADBLOCK TO SALES:
This entry was posted on 4/15/2008 9:25 AM and is filed under Real Estate marketing.
TWO CENTIMETER ROAD BLOCK TO SALES:
As the season turns to spring selling property faces new obstacles in many parts of the country. The obstacles to which I refer can be a devastating deterrent to prospective buyers whether they are tiny or enormous, whether they are dead or alive. I am talking about bugs, insects, creepy crawling, or lying on their back their presence usually has a powerfully negative affect. A potential buyer could be in the one home that fits all their needs as far as location, layout, price, and then, within the toilet bowl floats three tiny cockroaches. Suddenly, the thousands and thousands of relatives these tiny three cockroaches have come sckimmering through his or her mind, and where they might of come from, and what holes let them in the house. Your perfect buyer then subconsciously feels a tiny bug crawl up his sleeve and can’t run away fast enough.
Take care of the bugs before the bugs take care of business for you. There are at least two ways to keep insects out of the house to begin with. The first is routine lawn maintenance. You might consider doing this anyway for curb appeal. Keep high and bushy vegetation at a minimum directly surrounding the house. Trees with branches hanging over the house, overgrown vines and untrimmed bushes are cushy harbors for all types of bugs, and rodents to hide and eventually borough their way through to the house. The second is a chemical lawn treatment which can be applied to the surrounding yard. The chemical can be found at most home improvement stores or in the lawn and garden section, and works sort of like an insecticide. It keeps bugs from even coming near the house.
If the bugs are already in the house there are the run of the mill, mostly inexpensive options found at your neighborhood Wal-Mart or the like. Of course there is always the exterminator, notably more expensive but usually more effective. With any of these options take care that the job is not done when the poison or trap is laid. Many poisons cause bugs to come out of hiding and die right in the middle of the kitchen floor or in sinks and so on. Check in advance of showing the property that any dead insects are cleared away.
