Adding Value to your Home Regardless of the Sacramento Housing Market - Tip #1

With all this talk about the housing market going up or down, I find a lot of people don't pay attention to factors they can control about the price their home can command. The market is beyond the control of homeowners, but the condition of their home is.

Get the front and back professionally landscaped. At the very least, add a sprinkler system. If your home is not going on the market any time soon, you may have time to watch the grass grow back. This is especially important in the Sacramento heat, where infrequent watering will kill the lawn in less time than you can say "Scotts Weed and Feed." Use a timer!

Here are before and after pictures of one of my rentals as it looked when I purchased it and when it was rented out. (Yes, the healthier lawn is when we were through with it, not the other way around.)