Live Well - Sell Over Ask
Decorating Tips and Tricks
Bespoke FM
4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Learn what features you can enjoy now and expect a nice return on when, and if, you sell your house.
We discuss not only what potential buyers are looking for now, but even more importantly, features you might want to live with before you call a realtor.
Like the title says "LIVE WELL _then _SELL OVER ASK"!
Some features we wholeheartedly agree will make your home more attractive to buyers, others not so much...
Listen in to hear the discussion and so much more, like our 'hot topic' chat, why we like today's crushes and an answer to a white paint question many people might have, but have not asked yet.
Here are the links we promised in the course of this episode:
Find Kelly's outdoor fireplace HERE.
Listen to our Home Trends 2020 episode HERE and hear our thoughts on a separate home office & more.
Learn how to set up a dedicated laundry room by watching HERE.
Listen to our "Pick the Right White" episode HERE.
Today's Hot Topic article is all about home decor app. Read it HERE.
Kelly is crushing on the New Yorker Fiction podcast. Short stories previously published in the New Yorker magazine read by literary folks. Listen to "The Other Side of the Street" by John Updike HERE.
Anita bought & loves a tiered tray. See it HERE.
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| 0:00.0 | Ask and you shall receive and maybe even more than you bargained for. |
| 0:05.8 | Listen in and learn how. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Kelly Wilkins here with Anita Joyce and this is Decorating Tips and Tricks, Episode 407, |
| 0:22.3 | Live Well, Sell Over Ask. |
| 0:25.7 | Today we're going to talk about things that you might want to add or highlight in your home |
| 0:32.0 | while you're living there so you can enjoy them and set yourself up for a crazy bidding war and get more than you |
| 0:40.5 | ask for for your home when and if the time comes to sell it you know that's so interesting the |
| 0:46.1 | house across the street from me my builder built that house after we moved in and they weren't really sure they were ready to move they put it on the market |
| 0:57.4 | and they put it on basically they thought was a very high number do you know they got three |
| 1:02.3 | offers over asking well your builder does a very nice job i could attest to that and uh they |
| 1:10.5 | the deal they worked out was not only did this guy |
| 1:12.5 | pay more than they were asking for, but he let them stay in it for a month for free before he was |
| 1:19.0 | able to move in. Wow. I'll buy it for more than you want to sell it for and you can still |
| 1:24.5 | keep living there. That's a deal. So the point is you can get more than asking in some markets if you get the right buyer, |
| 1:35.3 | if the house is right. |
| 1:36.7 | So it does happen. |
| 1:37.9 | That's what I want to say. |
| 1:39.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:39.7 | Well, what we're going to talk about today is specific things that you can add to your |
| 1:43.4 | home or features that you might want to consider including in your home, whether it's an older home or certainly |
| 1:49.7 | if you have an opportunity to build from scratch, you can work all these things into your plan. |
| 1:55.6 | But the thing we always say to you is, you know, don't in a sense dress up your house or do extra things |
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