Carpet allowance when selling your home many times i talk to sellers who are getting ready to list their home for sale and t heir carpet is over ten years old and is showing signs of wear.
Carpet allowance 2017.
Many homeowners commonly consider decorating allowances for painting or flooring in areas of the home they believe to be in need of updating.
A decorating allowance is a sum of money a seller is willing to contribute to the transaction in order to help pay for remodeling or renovation to the home after purchase.
We are preparing our house for sale in spring 2018.
Originally posted by twowilldo.
How can a carpeting allowance be a bad thing.
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It may have to be.
However if the buyer s agent is searching for properties less than 200k this property will not be included in the search even though the net asking.
Banks are increasingly not liking cash rebates from seller to buyer with money they just loaned.
Most of the time the sellers tell me they just want to offer a carpet allowance when they list their home.
The net asking price to the buyer is 197k.
Many home buyer s ask for anywhere from 3 50 5 per sqft on average that is over double the price of what it would cost a home to have fresh carpet installed.
Which option carpet allowance or carpet replacement will provide you with the highest return on the sale of your spring texas house.
Carpet allowance repairs new fence furniture allowance landscaping etc.
Aug 07 2017 15412 views realtor only.
Plus giving the buyer a carpet allowance is much easier than replacing the carpet and there s no upfront cash outlay.
For example let s assume an asking price of 202k with a carpet allowance of 5k.
In my opinion this is not the best plan.
Carpet replacement is the answer.
I will say this about carpet allowances.
Buyer s typically ask for much more than 1 99 per sqft for their carpet allowance.
12 17 2017 06 32 am jannd.
On many real estate sales contracts we see credits from the seller to the buyer in the form of carpeting allowances or repair credit basically a buyer wants to purchase a home but wants the seller to replace the carpet or make some other repairs to the property.