Before selling our house, a real estate agent recommended getting some repairs and refurbishing done, and so I wound up on the market for a Destin Handyman who could do a little bit of everything. After some looking around, I ended up asking the guys at Sound Venture, Inc. to come out and take a look at the home to offer some suggestions and estimates on getting our house ready to put on the market. I had a few ideas of what should be done, but wanted a professional opinion on what was the best investment to make.
My house is in Destin, Florida and they were local to me, so they were able to come out quickly, and they were really nice about working around my work schedule. We went over the things I definitely wanted done (freshening up the stucco, new cabinets and counter tops in the kitchen, and replacing the carpet) and then I just asked the guy to take a look around give me his honest opinion on the rest of the house. I was really surprised that he didn’t just start making a laundry list of tasks to be fixed or fixed up.
He recommended getting some maintenance done to HVAC system on the house to help the air quality and doing some basic weatherproofing to help offer a more energy efficient home to a new buyer. Although I wasn’t necessarily in the market for a ‘green’ contractor, after he went over all of the things that can be done to a house to save on energy costs, I was pretty happy that they were. I hadn’t even thought about offering a long-term solution like energy efficient upgrades to potential buyers.
In the end, they fixed everything I asked for, within the budget we had set. The real estate agent even complimented us on the repair choices, and our house sold faster than I expected.
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