Hey, it's Wayne Turner and you're watching the Daily Real Estate Show. Hey, I'm Wayne Turner. I'm the broker over at Turner Real Estate. You do not want your front door to look like this. If you wanna buy a house, just ask yourself these three questions. Purchase these houses for literally 500 dollars out of pocket. For more than 21 years, I have specialized in the sale in homes. Beautiful day, going to list a house.

 

I wanted to talk a little bit today about homeowners, condition of property, first time homeowners more so than anything and I get this question a lot. What about the condition of my house? They'll say, "Wayne, I've never saw the house before." Or most os the time, I can just kind of tell. I've been doing this for a long time and I can just kind of tell and I ask people, "Have you ever owned? Was this your first home? Have you ever sold a home before?"

 

We try to make it as easy as possible. Most importantly, the purpose of the videos and the things that we do is to educate consumers here on the North Shore about selling their home and pretty much anywhere in the country, if you're selling your house.

 

So condition, people ask me about condition. The best thing to do is clean, clean, clean, clean, clean. Start at your front door and wipe down your front door. After you wipe it down, if it still looks like it may be a little mold, a little mildewy or if it just has a little bit of dirt or grime, put a fresh beat of caulk, fresh coat of paint. Clean it up really good. If you have to, change the doorknobs. If they're faded, the sun's beat them down, change the doorknobs. By changing the doorknobs, it will actually make the house look a hundred times better.

 

It's that first impression. When you walk up to the house for the first time, you're looking at homes you walk up to the door and you're like, "Wow. If the front doors look this nice, the inside must be fantastic." That's the first thing is clean front door. The next thing is landscaping, spruce it up on the outside. Put down pine straw. I've discovered over the years that you can use pine straw as opposed to pine bark mulch. It's much cheaper. It doesn't put off the odor and termites don't eat the pine straw, but they love ...

 

I never figured that out. Think about that. You're going to take moist chops of wood and put it all along down on the ground, right up to your house. Don't do that. Just use pine straw, pine needles. A quick little shout-out to Gomez Pine Straw. He does a fantastic job. I've used him personally for years. He delivers. Gomez Pine Straw. Just google Gomez Pine Straw [inaudible 00:02:32]. Tell him Wayne Turner sent you.

 

Anyway, that's the only condition. Hope you're having a good day. If you've just tuned in, you're watching the Daily Real Estate Show. The thing that ... The other thing is people say, "What is your house worth? Well, what is my house worth? How I know what my house is worth?" We do a couple of things. One, I subscribe to the same database as real estate appraisers do. I know based on other homes that have sold in the last six months in the area, within a three mile radius of your house, what the value is going to be.

 

For example, if your house is sold and your in a residential neighborhood with 500 houses, I can promise you there's going to be at least three homes that are gonna be comparable to yours that have closed in the last six months. That's real simple. We just take those sold properties and we look at what your bedrooms, baths, square footage, year built and we try to find three comparable properties. We're not looking at active homes. We're not looking at homes that are on the market. We're looking at the homes that are physically closed and sold.

 

Once we find those three, we pretty much look at those. We make some variances based on condition, paint, carpet, what theirs has that yours doesn't have. I hope you're having a good day. You can catch us on the web, Wayne Turner d