The real estate game is a big game to be in. Every year in the United States alone, the trillion dollar industry seems to just keep growing. With the housing market in 2008 lower than usual, real estate moguls are looking for an edge and for unique selling points to help them sell homes. Plain homes have been harder than usual to sell in the current buyers market and it's the homes that offer the most upgrades that are doing well in the industry. Curb appeal, as every real estate agent knows, is near the top of the list as important factors that increases a homes sellability. Real estate agents love when the home seller has put in the effort to make the home attractive on the outside so they can have a happy customer before they even take them to the inside of the home. The window box is a powerful tool and cost-effective way to add curb appeal to a home and put a smile on a realtors face. Agents love window boxes because they are unique selling points for a home and they add curb appeal. Builders and home owners are starting to love them too, because they are a cheap and affordable way to totally change the feel of a home and put some life back into it.
Wooden window boxes can be purchased in the $50 - $250 price range and often just a couple of these will make a dramatic change to the face of a home. Also, rot free PVC window boxes have come down in price and made it that much more affordable to dress up a home and make it more sellable. PVC window boxes look like wood and can be painted, plus they don't have any of the maintenance issues of wooden window boxes. These upgraded window boxes usually cost around $70 - $350, but last virtually forever. It's almost always a good move to spend money on the outside of a home. The money you can make back just by getting it off the market quicker is almost always worth the investment. There's nothing that makes a real estate agent smile more than to have a house complemented on by the home buyer before they even step foot in the door.
Window box planters are an affordable secret weapon that builders are using in a buyers market and real estate agents love them too. It's a good way to add landscaping that puts permanent value in a home and it's such a rarity, that you will set a house apart immediately in a good way. From a home buyers point of view, we make a list of houses that we consider as potential and we often list the pros and cons that each have to offer. When you can add a house to your list of potential homes and it has something unique to it that people remember, then you have an edge over the competition and a winning strategy in real estate.
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Matthew Buquoi is the owner of
Flower Window Boxes, a manufacturing company that does no rot PVC window boxes and custom
window boxes. They offer custom window box sizing and many styles to choose from and they ship all over the nation.
Occupation: Business Owner
Matt Buquoi lives in Cumming, Georgia and is the owner of an online window box business called Flower Window Boxes. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 2003 with a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and uses his engineering skills to manufacture and fabricate affordable no rot window boxes. His hobbies are gardening, landscaping, and writing.
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