Want that New House? Why Not Ask the Builder to Fix Yours!

June 2nd, 2010 categories: Selling your home

“Desperate affairs require desperate measures”, Horatio Nelson put it well. Right now many sellers are desperate to move on to a bigger and better or smaller and saner home. Either way many of us feel like we’re stuck. Here’s an idea that’s so crazy it just might work.

Lew Sichelman, Chicago Tribune tells us about builders who are putting idle craftsman to work…fixing up homes of would be buyers so they can sell quicker so they can close on the builders home! Now that’s thinking out of the box! Read the full story here.

“Mulcrone called on builders to visit their would-be buyers’ “departure” houses to determine what can be done to make them more saleable. If a house needs a coat of paint, send a painter, she advised. If it needs some sprucing up outside, send over a landscaper.”Their old house is going to be someone else’s new house,” she explained, “so help it look new again.”

courtesy of www.somersethistoricalcenter.org

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