Selling Your Home.....What Does Your Neighborhood Look Like?

The other day I was out with a buyer form out of town. Not familiar with the area and unable to steer him to one area or neighborhood more than another I had sent him an extensive list of homes to view. He picked out six to look at. All the homes were in neighborhoods and areas that met his criteria and I think after meeting hm were places he would want to live.

We instantly ruled out three homes by pulling into the neighborhoods.......Why? becuase of the way the neighbors homes looked from the outside. it was to the point he would not even go inside the houses to look at them. he said driving through the neighborhoods " you can tell a lot aboout the neighborhood and the people by the wya they keep their homes, yards and cars parked in the driveway". When I asked him to eleaborate for me...he explained it.

His theory was that if the yards were well kept, house looked presentable from the outside and the cars were not disabled or broken down in the driveway then the neighborhood took pride in their homes. if the reverse was true; it was either people stopped caring or the neighborhood was becoming a predominant rentla community. Both options did not appeal to him.

As I look back at some f the buyers I took out recently I remeber a trend now. When we got done looking at a house that they liked; they would look around at the other homes in the neighborhood. Were they doing the same thing?

A recent feedback on one of my listings posed the same scenario to me....The agent informed me they were not going inside the house at all because his cleint did not like the neighborhood or the curb appeal.

So, if you are selling your home; or thinking of selling your home....what does your neighborhood look like? it could make a difference in someone buying your home ornot.....



Dave diCecco

Realtor/Broker

www.davedicecco.com