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Help! Are these things we should fix?
Our home is over 50 yrs old and we are selling. We have fixed up a TON of things to the tune of $30,000. We want to list now. The following things are still wrong with the house but we don't want to invest more time or money to fixing. Please let me know if any of these are a must fix before selling:
- Outlets not grounded
- sprinklers in front lawn not working
- sprinklers in back don't fully cover grass area
- some tiny holes in walls from nails, but pics are up so people won't see the holes, but will know they are there
- a crack in one of the kitchen flooring tiles
- a non-fire safety door that should be a safety door
- a bedroom door that is hard to close (sticks)
- an unlevel floor area in one of the bedrooms
- some scratches on the hardwood flooring
Would any of these or all of these be a huge priority to fix before selling?
Re: Help! Are these things we should fix?
I bolded the two i thought you might need/want to fix. We had a FHA mortgage and I know these items would have been an issue for our mortgage so in case you have a buyer with this type of mortgage you could keep that in mind.
For issues like holes b/c of pictures, i think and would hope that most buyers would expect that.
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I'd definitely do the bold but they are all probably pretty easy fixes.
Any idea what it would cost to ground the outlets? My husband thinks it's rewiring the entire house and may be a couple thousand.
The unlevel floor is from settlement. Yes it's a big deal but it's also common in our neighborhood and we are selling lower because of it. We had new flooring put down and they did a horrible job in that room at the unleveled area. It is close to a closet and if they tried to fix the floor, it would have made the closet not close. I'd have to call another flooring specialist and a concrete person out to make it level and I'm sure that would be a lot. I don't mind knocking some $$ off the sale price, but is it likely people would turn away because of these issues?
If I was interested in buying your home, the only thing that might be a turnoff for me would be the unlevel floor area problem. And that just depends on HOW unlevel it is, and what it'd take to fix it.
That being said, if we decided to make a bid and we had an inspector go through and point out this stuff to us, we'd probably ask you to fix the front lawn sprinkler issue and the safety door issue as part of the deal. We could fix the other stuff ourselves or just have it taken care of eventually (like replacing the tules and re-doing the hardwood floors).
It'd be a turnoff for me if the seller just outright refused to work with us a bit.
We also had an FHA and our sellers had to replace an outlet in the garage with a grounded one. As far as I know (my home-fixing-savvy dad was there for our inspection), all they had to do was replace the outlet with a grounded one, no re-wiring. I could be wrong, though.
Nothing you listed would have turned me off. We would have asked that you fix the outlet, replace the door, and fix the sprinkler. Otherwise, I think those are all things that are expected.
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I think you need to worry about the unlevel floor, first. A potential buyer won't walk through and see that outlets aren't grounded or that a fire door is needed - they will become issues once you're under contract and as long as you're willing to fix or credit at that point, you're fine. But an unlevel floor could make people uninterested. I looked at a home that I otherwise loved but the kitchen floor was sloped and it seemed (to my uneducated mind in the area of construction) like too big a problem to want to worry about in a new home.