Does Your Home’s Web and Curb Appeal Get an A+? It had better.

There are many pieces to the puzzle when selling your home in today’s market. Two of them are web appeal and curb appeal. Both are extremely important and should be a main focus when selling your home. If either are not done well, you may turn away potential buyers and/or get a lower priced offer than you had hoped for.

Web Appeal

If your home’s web appeal is not A+, your home will fall into the “possibilities” and “discarded” folders of buyers’ searches. If your home stands out from the crowd and makes buyers say, “That looks nice!”, then your home goes into the “favorites” or “must see” folders.

Speaking from experience along with countless studies done on the topic, if your home is not in the top 3 to 5 of a buyers’ “favorites” folder, the buyer will most likely not want to see your home in person. And you can’t sell a home to a buyer who doesn’t come to see the home in person.

Curb Appeal

Once a buyer drives past your home or arrives to see it in person, your curb appeal is your home’s first impression to the buyer. The first impression can attract or deter the buyer within a matter of seconds. If your curb appeal is lower than an A+, someone driving past your home may say, “Bleh. The other house around the corner looks better”.

And someone coming to see the house in person will have a less than positive outlook on the entire property if the curb appeal isn’t excellent. You may either deter a potential buyer from seeing (and buying) the house or you may lose money because anything negative equals less money that a buyer will offer.

If you have your home on the market or about to put your home on the market, what grade would your home get for web appeal and curb appeal? If it’s not an A+, there’s something wrong. No, getting an A+ in web appeal and curb appeal is not like acing a master’s level class. And it can be done by even the busiest of sellers and listing agents.

So how do you get an A+ in web appeal and curb appeal? I’m going to go into detail about web appeal and curb appeal each in a separate blog post. The blog posts will be coming out over the next 10 days so grab the RSS feed, add this blog to your Google home page/reader/Google+ or other service you are using or just check back.

Regardless of how you access the posts, make sure you read them. Though the posts are free for everyone to read, what you get out of reading them may be the difference in whether you sell your home or not and/or may make you thousands of extra dollars when selling your home.