BATHROOMS:
Make the faucets new or look so much like they are new that you have to take a microscope to see they aren’t fresh form the faucet factory. The bathtub has to be spotless, and the floor has to look like it has just been installed and cleaned within an inch of its life. Oh, yes, the toilet. If they are old when you get the property, they will probably be nasty from “deferred maintenance”. If they are old enough, or if they are in an area where the water is hard (has a high mineral content), then the little holes under the ring of the commode where the water runs when you flush it will fill up with minerals too. That means that instead of a curtain of water flowing from the ring into the bowl when you flush it, the water will look like little ropes and spaces where there is not water flowing. If you toilet behaves like this when you flush it, put in a new toilet. They start at $60 in Home Depot or Lowes.

TOILET SEAT:
Another thing about bathroom remodeling is, the commodes. I always put a new seat on them if I do not replace them. I also leave the plastic wrapper covering the seat so that the buyer will see that when they go to use the facilities they will sit where no man has sat before. Women either. It is a consideration that never goes unnoticed.


Kevin Smith
Forward Assist Inspections
(713)858-1330
Texas Real Estate License #3234