(Newswire.net — January 22, 2019) — The lawn is to a home as hair is to a woman.
If you are a woman, or you are close to one, you probably know and understand just how important having good hair really is to them. Hairstyling is just one of the most time-consuming activities that a woman finds herself doing.
However, the amount of time and money spent on buying hair products and styling tools are investments that ultimately pay off. Indeed, having great hair really makes a woman more beautiful and alluring. It also boosts their confidence such that they start speaking with more power and conviction.
Now, is the analogy that we make in the beginning of this article correct? Can the benefit that a woman experiences when she has well-styled hair be carried over (at least in principle) to a home with a well-manicured lawn?
The answer seems to be a resounding “Yes!” Why?
“You can only have one first impression,” Jim Murrett says in this Time Magazine article. And let’s face it, what’s beautiful is almost construed as inviting. Just imagine yourself on your first date, and you see that the other person is rather unkempt; you will surely be turned off, and the possibility of you ever seeing each other again plummets to almost zero.
Similarly, when a home is shown with knee-high weeds and untrimmed shrubs, it will surely look unappealing. It can even suggest that something in the structure itself is broken because of the neglect evident in front of the house.
You can think of lawn care as a way of packaging the property better. After all, when a buyer is faced with a multitude of options with almost the same offers, they will probably go with what pleases their eyes the most. After all, our sense of sight is arguably the most dominant among the senses. With almost everything right at your fingertips, it’s easier to get guidance and reviews on how you can make the most out of your lawn. Sites like BestOfMachinery provides reviews and buying guides on the best lawn care tools and products in the market now
But Murrett cautions about overdoing it, a sentiment that is echoed by the president of FormLA Landscaping, Cassy Aoyagi, when she was approached by a contributing writer for Forbes. While adding a fountain can indeed enhance the property’s aesthetic, it will be too much to expect that the increase in the property’s price will reflect the amount that you shelled out to have this extra feature installed.
The key is to keep it neat and simple, and the professionals cited on WikiLawn’s Washington DC page and others within that domain seem to agree.
According to a survey conducted by representatives of the National Association of Realtors, simple fertilizing and weed control efforts, which can cost you around $300, can raise the sale price by up to $1000. Other simple tasks such as lining a stone walkway with healthy greenery can add almost $5000 to the final selling price.
Indeed, sticking to what is simple and affordable will take you a long way, especially since the people that you are trying to sell the property to might have their own vision of what their lawns should look like. Offering them only the basics invites them to be more imaginative, which will hopefully lead to a juicy deal.