Is Painting Your House Before You Sell Worth It?

I've recently noticed a lot of home sellers not wanting to paint their house prior to listing. Here's why investing in some paint is totally worth it.

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Recently I've received a lot of comments about a home's interior paint from home sellers. I'll see bold and wild colors in their home that they don't paint over because they think a buyer will just come in and paint the colors they want anyway.

However, I think it's extremely important to go ahead and paint your house and take on the risk of the small cost of it. You don't want to sell a house with bright blue, green, or pink walls. The colors could have been beneficial to your decor, but not when the home is vacant or staged. It will look especially bad on the Internet.

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Odd colors might look good with your decor, but not in a vacant or staged home.

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We want your home's online photos to be as good as possible so buyers can get excited about the house and want to come see it. Bright colors can jeopardize buyers even wanting to come see your home at all.

It's worth the money to paint with neutral colors that are common and that buyers want to see. You'd think people would be able to look past odd paint colors, but I've actually lost sales over it. 

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