Are you Ready to Sell your Property?

• Put up a lawn sign, and if your property is off a side street then you need to have 'Property for Sale' arrow signs. Also keep the lawn sign on a tree at 'eye level' or slightly higher and replace it if it breaks or fades.
• Mark the corner or dimensions of the property with some sort of colored weather proof tape. This is important of its beside other empty lots, backs onto green property or is not fenced. If there is housing all around then this is irrelevant.
• Clear some area for buyers to walk through.
• Keep garbage cleaned out of the ditch.
• If the land needs septic then you'll sell faster with pre-approval. Same goes with water, hydro or other services.
  

Just like selling a home, first impressions can make a difference. While some buyers have the capability to see a 'diamond in the rough', a lot of 'spouses' do not often share the same view.

Here's an example: Terry and Gerry take a Sunday drive to look at a piece of property they think may be perfect. Upon arrival there is no lawn sign, so they have to guess which property it may be. There are no markers showing where the property starts or ends and the area is so over grown in thorns that they can not walk the property for ideas of building the home they want. While Terry is happy to see the potential, Gerry is a bit frustrated that the 'perfect' lot looks like a piece of bush and would rather keep looking around.

Let's take another look: Terry and Gerry take a Sunday drive to look at a piece of property that they think may be perfect. Upon arrival there is a bright, easy to read simple lawn sign that says:


'FOR SALE' 120' x 200' building lot Ocean view possible from 2 level home Feel free to walk about Ph# 250 338-2999 FMI

The property lines are also marked with orange 'surveying' tape on some of the bushes and the owner has taken a day to clear a path to walk around the perimeter of the property.