Carpets – Time to Replace Before Selling

Posted on December 8, 2008 
Filed Under Listing and Selling Your Home, Valerie Zinger

Have you got some old, oddly coloured carpeting installed in your home?  Have you spent time trying to decorate around the carpet, finding furniture that will go with putrid green, orange shag, purple morning mist, etc.  If you can’t stand the carpet, why do you think buyers will like it?  My advice is to get the carpet removed and, depending upon the value of your house either install hardwood or, if the market will not defend hardwood, then new linoleum or wall to wall carpet.  If there is carpeting in the bathroom, please, please remove this.  It just makes people a bit queasy to think of what may be in the carpet.  Here are two examples that should have you thinking linoleum and hardwood. 

 

Photo credit:  Stairway to heavan @  http://www.flickr.com/photos/yarhargoat/1796838151/

 

Photo credit:  carpet in the bathroom? @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/spine/2103894277/ 

It is so annoying to think that you are fixing up the house just so someone else can enjoy it.  Now, why are you waiting?  Fix it now.  Enjoy it now.  Hope for a good return when you sell at some later date.  There was one home I lived in that had a large hump in the middle of the living room wall to wall.  It bothered me every time I was in the room.  When did I get the carpet stretched and fixed?  Yes, you guessed it.  I had the carpet guy come to the house and kick out the hump just before putting the sign on the lawn -

For Sale. 

 Valerie Zinger ~ Ottawa, Canada ~ T 613-723-5300 ~ E. vzinger@royallepage.ca

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One Response to “Carpets – Time to Replace Before Selling”

  1. John Rigby on December 18th, 2008 8:45 am

    I was just thinking about Carpets – Time to Replace Before Selling and you’ve really helped out. Thanks!

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