It’s Almost Spring!

Doesn’t that title just scream!! You’re thinking to yourself “SPRING” yeah, right!! There is snow on the ground and the temp is freezing and I am telling you its almost Spring! Yes I am. Think about it. There are only two more months until spring. December is really gone and in a few days it is January. Then you will have a short month - February and then MARCH!! And SPRING!!!

Spring is a very favorable time to sell a home. Regardless it’s a buyer’s market or a sellers’ market home inventory always rises in the SPRING. Spring is the time when large numbers of buyers start to actively search for a new home.

If you read my last blog, “You WHAT? You have decided to sell in the SPRING?” I talked about some items you needed to accomplish to be ready for the spring market. Let’s recap “the list”!

THE LIST

1. Get those bulbs in the ground. (This will start your “curb appeal”)
2. Rake those leaves now! (They will kill your grass if you leave them)
3. Trim those bushes, chop back those trees. (We want to SEE the house!)
4. Dig up any plants that won’t be surviving the winter. (Do it now – not “in the Spring“)
5. Do your “Spring Clean” in January. (When you are taking down the entire Holiday affair)
6. February is “Paint what needs to be painted” Month. (Yep, it’s on a calendar somewhere!)

It might be too late to get some bulbs in the ground but if you don’t have frozen soil do it now!

Just remember Spring is Spring and not June. If you don’t get your home ready now you will miss the buyers that want to close on a home at the beginning of June so they can enjoy their new home in the summer.