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Stage Your Pool Before Selling Your Home

Looking to sell your home with a pool and hot tub? Perhaps you’re wondering if your swimming pool will add value to your property or detract from it. The answer is: it depends. Those factors include market trends, the preferences of each buyer, and the overall appearance of the pool area itself. The latter is imperative. If your pool doesn’t look appealing, it will take away from the value of your property, or at least cause it to remain neutral.

A pool that is poorly maintained, run down and murky with cracked decking, broken fencing, and poor landscaping will have a tougher time selling at the price you want. No buyer wants to take on a project of that size. They know they will have to shell out a lot of money to fix it up. And if it looks unsafe, they won’t want their kids a part of that.

In the end, you want to show buyers the potential of your pool area, adding great value to the overall asking price.

Tips for Staging

Staging usually occurs on the interior of your home, where you spruce it up to appeal to all buyers. This can also be done to the exterior of your home as you prepare to sell. You can hire a staging company or you can do the following things yourself. Check out these tips:

• Remove all leaves and debris from the pool.
• Remove weeds from cracks and patch them up. Power wash the decking to remove stains.
• If you have a lawn that’s strewn with riding toys, tools and junk, clean it all up. Store any equipment or accessories in a shed or garage.
• Scrub down the walls of the pool and clean all accessories, from ladders to railings.
• Shock the pool so it’s clear to the bottom.
• Hire someone to landscape the pool area or do it yourself. Pay attention to mulching, planting, mowing, edging and more. Be sure to utilize trees, bushes and shrubs in an attractive way, making sure the filter area is hidden by shrubs and flowers.
• Keep the area free from a mess of pool toys and floats.
• Make sure the fencing has no holes and stands upright. Gates should have working locks for safety.
• Showing your pool in winter? Invest in a safety cover instead of that old tarp. Showing it in summer? You don’t need a cover but you have to make sure the water is clean and clear.
• If a hot tub is part of your pool area, scrub it down to rid it of dirt and mildew.
• Get a new hot tub cover if it is old, brittle, heavy or cracked.
• Clean the patio furniture and wash it down. If it’s run down and ugly, junk it and get a new set. You can always take it with you to your new home. Or, you could hire a staging company to bring one in for the open house.
• Same with the grill and other accessories. You want to appeal to the buyer’s visions of a perfect summer day barbecuing by the pool. No one wants to see an old rusted grill sitting sadly off to the side.

Do you need help with getting your pool ready for sale? We can take care of all things related to your pool and surrounding decking. Please call Central Jersey Pools today at 732-462-5005 to learn more.

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