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If you want to increase the value of your Las Vegas home, the best thing you can do is to stand outside—way outside, across the street—and view your property as if seeing it for the first time. Would you want to knock on the door?
Common sense dictates that when you are out cruising Las Vegas neighborhoods looking at houses, you’ll judge on what you see first—a home’s outer attributes, or curb appeal. If the outside doesn’t catch your fancy, then you will drive on by to greener lawns. Add to that the latest phenomenon, the 7 people in 10 who use the Internet to identify homes enticing enough to visit in person. Follow these suggestions to ensure your home has appeal at the curb and the computer.
Walk around the perimeter of your Las Vegas yard to pick up litter left over from trash day, leaves, garden tools, pieces of projects not yet completed, weeds and foliage gone wild. Cleaning up is pretty basic, and yet when we live in an environment, we tend to stop seeing it as a newcomer as a potential buyer will.
With a critical eye, tour the sidewalks around your Las Vegas house, walkways leading to it, the yard (all sides) and landscaping, and scour any portion of the house visible from outside, including siding, roof, gutters, doors, windows, window treatments, porch, deck, garage and sheds. Make a list of anything that needs to be cleaned up, repaired, painted, planted, trimmed, etc.
Once you’ve completed your assessment, determine what tasks are truly just a matter of cleaning up, what will need repairs or muscle work, and what may need professional help or significant investment.
Power-wash siding, walls and roof tiles
Wash windows
Sweep walkways, mow lawn, clean up plant beds, add flowers
Accessorize, especially in front areas
Re-pave or fill cracked sidewalks
Re-hang dangling gutter pipe
Trim tree branches that touch buildings or block needed views
Green up patchy lawn, fill bald spots in border plantings
Check lighting
Commit to extensive landscaping
Add a new roof
Refinish the driveway
Paint or refinish the exterior.
Use this checklist to help you evaluate your home’s curb appeal and find easy improvement solutions.
Yard and gardens
Pick up litter, pooper-scoop.
Weed, prune and mulch garden beds.
Mow lawn, trim edges, rake.
Prune shrubs and trees.
Sweep sidewalks, clear weeds from cracks.
Main entry
Clear sidewalks and driveway.
Clear and clean walkway to front entrance.
Clean porch. Repaint if needed. Accessorize with a new mailbox, potted flowers, stylish outdoor furniture, wall plaque or sculpture.
Front door
Clean surface, glass and handle.
If scratched or scuffed, repaint or refinish.
Make sure knob, lock and doorbell work and door doesn’t stick.
If screen door isn’t steel or tempered glass, remove it.
House exterior
Power-wash siding and roof—but not so hard that paint peels off.
Wash windows, inside and out. Replace worn or cheap curtains with treatments that look stylish from both sides of the window. Consider window boxes with flowers.
Clean deck or patio. Refinish if necessary, and accessorize.
Las Vegas real estate and home improvement experts say the most important key areas to spiff up are: main entrance, front door, exterior walls, roof and landscaping. In fact, good landscaping has been shown to hasten the sale of a home by as much as six weeks. In terms of investment, however, be careful not to “over-improve” for the neighborhood, as buyers won’t pay more than what other homes in the neighborhood are worth.
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