84- Friday, May 22, 1998 — North Shore News

ee ee eee $A facelift
: will help

FOR homeowners looking
to sell their house this sum
mer, minor improvements
can be the difference
between a quick deal or an =]
ongoing ordeal.

erts at Phe Home Depot :
d minimizing the “fix-
up” chores facing a potential buyer
by investing s« ime and effort fill
inte several cust- ve projects.”: i
“Putting a few hundred dollars
into s home before yew sell it is:
great investment, considering you
May get a tew thousand more fo
your nome and a faster sale,” said
Dennis Wilke, a Home Depot. asso.
ciate and an editor of Hong
Impravement 1-2-3, a how-to boa
on projects for do-it-yourselfers.°
“The cleaner and better m
tained a house appears, the- tessf
mone buyers believe they'll need
to put i ” he said. “In today’s
economy, this wiil dramatically
Improve a home's attractiveness:224
To improve saleability - and
increase value, he recommends:
M@ painting exterior fences and.wa
B covering bare spots in the gi
with wand chips or pine mulch,
B screening off eyesores, such,
utility areas, with lar
shrubbe TY;
B pruning shrubs, trees and
ing the garden;
@ adding potted plants and flow
both inside the nome and out,
“Remember to be caretul sw
any fix-up project because you Wz
to keep it conservative and nei
sey it appeals to 3 broad number
buyers,” he said. :

NEWS photo Brod Ledwidge

Preschool pick-up

PRESCHOOLERS Samantha and Nathan pitched in recently with classmates and parents of the Upper Lonsdale Parent
Participation Preschool to clean up the North Lonsdale United Ghurch yard and Carisbrooke Park. The chitdren had heip in the
form of (very) small gardening gloves from the North Vancouver Revy Home and Garden Warehouse.

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