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Maximizing Your Home's Value: The Best Timing for Pre-Sale Renovations
Before you list your home for sale, you need to do some maintenance, fixing broken things and making it look more presentable to potential buyers. A few minor remodels can even help boost your resale value. Choosing the wrong projects, though, can hurt rather than help the sale process and may cost more than they're worth. What renovations should you make, when should you make them, and which ones should you avoid to make your house stand out from other North Conway homes for sale or Jackson homes for sale? Here are a few do's and don'ts for timing your pre-sale renovations.
- DON'T: Remodel the Kitchen. It may seem like a brand-new kitchen would be a selling point for a home, but it can often be the opposite. Different people have different wants and needs in the kitchen, so what you decide to put in may not be what they're looking for. Plus, many new homeowners enjoy doing their own kitchen remodeling to take the space and make it their own.
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Austin Hale of Badger Peabody & Smith Realty Earns Maine Real Estate License
Badger Peabody & Smith Realty team member Austin Hale recently earned his Maine real estate license, expanding his ability to serve clients in both New Hampshire and Maine.
Hale joined Badger Peabody & Smith Realty's office in
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Add These 5 Things to Your NH Bucket List
Do you think of your bucket list as things to do "someday?" Well, someday has come. Celebrate National Bucket List Day on Wednesday, April 24, by adding these five exciting activities to your own bucket list.
- Spot a Moose
As the second-largest land animal in North America, a moose presents an awe-inspiring sight. Pemi Valley Moose Tours offers great opportunities to spot these breathtaking animals. Over 25 years of conducting their tours not far from Lincoln homes for sale, the company boasts an impressive 90 percent success rate in finding moose. Pemi Valley is the only moose tour company in New Hampshire that features guides, providing a set of experienced eyes to improve the odds of spotting moose. The 2024 season runs from May 18 through the end of September. Tours depart at 8:30 p.m. each night, and prices are $35-$45.
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6 Homeowner Tips for Tree Planting on Arbor Day
Arbor Day will be celebrated this year on April 26, and you might be thinking that your landscaping could benefit from more trees. But have you ever planted trees? If you do it right, they will have the best chance of flourishing at your New Hampshire home. Following are some hints from
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Badger Peabody & Smith Realty Makes Annual Donation to AHEAD
Continuing with an annual tradition, Badger Peabody & Smith Realty has provided a donation to AHEAD (Affordable Housing Education and Development) in a unique way through the generosity of the buyer and sellers they work with, as well as the firm.
The buyers and sellers they work with throughout the year agreed to have their escrow funds placed in an interest-bearing account, with 100% of the interest going to AHEAD to support their many...