How Important are Schools When Buying or Selling a Home?
On a scale of 1-10.......... I would say 10..... Here's River Dell Elementary in Clayton,NC, just promoted to an Honor School of Excellence!
On a scale of 1-10.......... I would say 10..... Here's River Dell Elementary in Clayton,NC, just promoted to an Honor School of Excellence!
So maybe you don’t have kids and you don’t care about the schools, then one day you get a call from the boss and you’ve been awarded that promotion you’ve been after.....Gotta move to LA, OK now how important are schools in your area, and not just in your area, it has to be the school that services the kids in your particular neighborhood. If the kids in your neighborhood go to the school that's not the school of excellence, then there is a very good chance that people with kids aren't even going to look at your house.
Re-sale values of homes are directly tied to the quality of the schools that the kids in that neighborhood will attend. They say all real estate is local and it is but you have to delve deeper because all real estate is hyper-local, meaning one neighborhood can be a hot seller while another similar one can be so so.
So what do you do if your house is not in a neighborhood with a school of excellence, accentuate the positive! Freshen everything, paint, landscape, de-clutter, new carpets, hardwoods, appliances.......and lower the price, at least make it competitive with your competition!
Some kids go to private school....that’s some of your market.
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