Tips to enhance curb appeal - Highlands Ranch
By Jacqueline Soule/Special to The ExplorerWith the real estate market still behaving badly, selling your home can be tough. Luckily it is easy to increase the "curb appeal" of your home with a little landscaping.
The American Association of Nurserymen reports that a nicely designed landscape with ample shade trees can add as much as $10,000 to the sale price of a home (based on identical homes on similar sized lots).
If you have no shade trees, the best time to plant them was 20 years ago. What is your next best strategy at this point? Go with the "nicely designed" landscape, and skip the trees for now. A sapling with stakes will suggest care issues to the prospective buyers, and detracts from curb appeal.
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The American Association of Nurserymen reports that a nicely designed landscape with ample shade trees can add as much as $10,000 to the sale price of a home (based on identical homes on similar sized lots).
If you have no shade trees, the best time to plant them was 20 years ago. What is your next best strategy at this point? Go with the "nicely designed" landscape, and skip the trees for now. A sapling with stakes will suggest care issues to the prospective buyers, and detracts from curb appeal.
Read the rest of the story.
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