If you are selling your home, you’ve probably invested some time and effort into making it more appealing to potential buyers. Chances are, you’ve painted, decluttered, strategically arranged a few outdoor planters, and generally spruced up your home. You may even have replaced or refinished your front entry door in order to make your home more inviting. However, you may have overlooked an important part of your home’s view from the street. Many homeowners are surprised to learn that a new garage door can help their home sell more quickly and for a higher price.
Curb Appeal
Curb appeal is the phrase real estate agents use to describe the view potential buyers have of your home as they approach it from the street. Although you may pay little attention to it, potential buyers base their first, and often their last, impression on your home’s front elevation. With this fact in mind, sellers typically focus on improving the appearance of shutters, porches, walkways, and entry doors.
Garage Doors
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As a result, owners often suffer from a kind of tunnel vision when they look at the front of their home. This makes it easy to forget that a front-facing garage door is a critical aspect of a home’s curb appeal. That’s because a buyer has nothing but the appearance of your home’s front exterior on his or her mind during the approach to your front door. Your garage door is a huge part of that critical first view. It is also a very large one. In fact, aside from your home’s siding, your garage door may be the largest feature of your home’s front