{"id":2273,"date":"2020-02-28T12:59:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2020-03-08T13:20:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T17:20:36","slug":"prep-your-home-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/prep-your-home-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Clean and Prep Your Home Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month I sent my annual reminder out to my clients that springtime is the natural time to spruce up the house, and also a good time to check its market-readiness and market-worthiness:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You may have no intention of selling your home but that&#8217;s no reason not to have it feeling as good to live in as one that&#8217;s been prepped for the market. It&#8217;s important to keep maintenance up on a property, as we all usually learn from hard experience over the years [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are many good reasons for keeping your home in a condition that can be made market-ready in a short period of time. Not only is such a home a greater pleasure to live in, but keeping a home up to scratch makes our greatest asset truly valuable as a hedge against sudden surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Most people who&#8217;ve put their home on the market at one time or another have been surprised by the sheer workload that can arise in order to turn a comfortable and lived-in property into something suitable for display to a potential buyer. We tend to put off a lot of things that we suddenly have to get done all at once.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to read more about this and other aspects of market preparedness, take a look at my article explaining why you should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ready-to-sell-in-30-days\/\">Always Be Ready to Go On the Market in 30 Days<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month I sent my annual reminder out to my clients that springtime is the natural time to spruce up the house, and also a good time to check its market-readiness and market-worthiness: You may have no intention of selling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/prep-your-home-investment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stephaniepassman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}