The Edit
The small fixes that pay. The expensive projects to skip. A designer's plan for your highest sale price.
Most sellers make one of two mistakes. They do nothing, and leave real money on the table over paint colors and cabinet pulls. Or they renovate the wrong things, spending forty thousand dollars on a kitchen the buyer plans to redo anyway. The truth, after designing more than three hundred properties, is that the highest returns almost always live in the lightest work.
So before you list with me, I walk your home the way a buyer will, and I hand you The Edit: a short, prioritized plan. What to do, what to skip, what each item roughly costs, and what it should return. Then, if you want the work done, I bring in my own contractors and vendors, the ones I use on my own projects, at the rates they give me. You skip the mystery quotes and the strangers from the internet.
And here is the part I like best: our interests are perfectly aligned. I only recommend work that raises your sale price by more than it costs, because the finished number is the one we both care about.
How The Edit works
1. The walkthrough. Sixty to ninety minutes, room by room, inside and out. I take the notes; you just walk with me.
2. The plan. A prioritized do / skip / maybe list with rough costs and expected returns. Usually the "do" list is shorter and cheaper than sellers fear.
3. The bench. Real bids within days from my trusted painters, handymen, landscapers, and stagers at preferred rates, and I coordinate the work if you want me to.
What The Edit usually catches
Paint that photographs badly. The single highest-return line item in almost every home.
The first thirty feet. Landscaping, the front door, house numbers, porch light. Buyers decide more in the driveway than they admit.
Fifty-dollar neglect. Loose pulls, dripping bibs, cracked plates. Small repairs that quietly whisper "what else wasn't maintained."
Lighting and hardware. The jewelry of a house. Small money, outsized photographs.
The forty-thousand-dollar mistake. The big renovation you were about to do that a buyer would pay nothing extra for. Skipping it is also a return.
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