Many homeowners who are planning on selling a home are focusing on all the fixed and repairs they have to do on the inside and forgetting to keep up with the look and repairs on the outside.

No matter how great your home looks on the inside, when you do not have the inviting seductive outside, a potential buyer might not step foot in your home or might not make an offer due to the lack of appeal on the outside.

You can hire a landscaping company to help you, but you truly don’t have to.

Personal I have found that when after leaving town for a while and coming back was the time for a new set of eyes to look at a home. Did you like what you see or did you have the sinking feeling looking at your home after being gone for a while? Did you fall again in love with your great looking home or did you have the blah feeling because your home looked just like all the others on the block.

The greatest indicator that your home needs a bit more curb appeal is when you give directions to friends and family member based on a balloon tied to the mailbox or having to put a sign in the yard for them to be able to find you.

Some of the fixes can be as simple as adding different landscaping to a yard or changing the paint of the front door and either loosing or updating the current shutters.

Here are some examples: