How To Get Your House Ready To Sell In Marin County…Quickly
This should have started a few days ago, but better late than never. We’re preparing a new house for sale - 444 Oakdale in Corte Madera. It’s a 3bd, 2 1/2 bath corner lot, with a family room, level yard, in a great neighborhood where all the kids walk to the Neil Cummins Elementary School.
My wife Pat started working with this last week. She has supervised, among other things, painters, movers, landscapers, handymen, carpet installers, and others to get the property ready. The whole house has been repainted, new carpet installed downstairs, the inside decluttered and staged, and the outside completely re-landscaped, all in about 10 days.
Well, almost. Our first showing is the open house, this Sunday. Here’s what the house looks like at 5 pm today:
That’s the owner in the doorway and our best painter, Greg Strohmeyer, trimming out the door. The front looks great.
This is the downstairs bath, where they’re installing a new sink and repainting.
The yard is pretty much a disaster at this point. It still needs a tremendous amount of work, and there’s only two days left. It will be completely planted with flowers and sod by Sunday, though.
Finally, here’s the family room, with the new carpeting that went in today. There was a problem with the first carpeting job. Pat had it all pulled out, and this was re-installed.
It’s actually looking pretty good, all things considered. There are about five or six people working on it at any given time. The real staging takes place tomorrow, I’ll get more pictures then, and try to illustrate how this comes together.
The real point though, is the value this will add to the property. The price for this house will be $1,049,000. I’m sure it will sell quickly, because when this is done, it will be absolutely beautiful, and the kind of house most families with small children are interested in.
More tomorrow…..
