When selling your home, don’t underestimate the importance of sprucing up the outside and keeping up with lawn care. After all, the first step to drawing potential buyers toward your home is making the exterior so appealing that they’ll want to see inside. Consider the guide below for advice on how to accomplish this.

How to Boost a Property’s Curb Appeal

1. Touch Up Your Siding, Garage & Windows

Using a pressure washer and extension wand, powerwash the siding, garage, and outside windows with detergent and warm water at low pressure. After letting the detergent sit for ten or fifteen minutes, rinse it off, keeping the same pressure. Squeegee the glass on the windows, and scrub stubborn grime off the siding with a rotating brush. If the color has faded or become patchy on the siding or garage door, apply new coats of paint to both. 

2. Perform Repairs & Maintenance

Replace burnt-out bulbs, ripped door and window screens, broken glass, and damaged or rotted parts of the siding. If your mailbox is crooked or chipped, straighten and polish it. Clean out your gutters with brushes and a hose or, if they’ve started to rust, consider getting completely new ones. Check your roof to see if you need to replace any missing or rotted shingles. Seal cracks in cement walkways and porches.

3. Beautify Your Front Entryway

To make the front of your house look inviting, update its aesthetic. Paint the door a bold or deep color that contrasts the rest of the house and install an elegant knocker. Add light fixtures on the underside of the awning or on either side of the door. Enlarge the porch with attractive stones or bricks, and upgrade the house numbers with a lovely font. Put up seasonal decorations and potted plants.

4. Nurture Your Greenery

Lawn care is especially vital now. Give special attention to trimming trees and shrubs and mowing the grass regularly. In any existing gardens, do some thorough weed control, then refresh the mulch and plant new flowers. If you haven’t started a garden yet, this is the perfect time to do it.

In need of exceptional lawn care services? Taylor's Weed & Pest Control of Hobbs, NM, can help bring out all the potential of your lawn and garden to impress every buyer that visits. Not only is every technician licensed in both landscaping and weed control, but they can also help with any stray pests you may have wandering around the property. To learn more about their offerings, visit them online. Schedule lawn care by calling them at (575) 492-9247.