Hurricane Season in Myrtle Beach: How to Be Prepared

The spring real estate market in Myrtle Beach has finally arrived!  Happy first day of Spring! Since today’s the first day, I decided that I would share with you some simple things that you can do outside to your house to get your home ready for sale in this spring market.  These items are fairly inexpensive to do and will not take a ton of time either. I’ll start with this video below sharing three and then elaborate more after.

Ok so the first thing you want to do with your house make sure the grass is looking great. Get your lawnmower out and cut the grass. Use the weed eater and get nicely trimmed edges along the sidewalks around flower beds, make it look pristine. You have to think, when people are pulling up to the house the first thing they are going to see is the grass in the front yard. If need be, buy a bag of fertilizer put it on and get your lawn looking great and green. Since we live in the south, plan on repeating this process every 7-10 days moving forward and all the way up until halloween.  

The second thing that I want to talk about is along those same lines and it has to do with your flower beds. Go and buy yourself some mulch. Whether you go down to the Mulch Bucket and buy by the dump truck load or you go over to a place like Lowes or Home Depot and buy it by the bag.  In our neighborhood, the local Boy Scouts troop is even doing a fundraiser where you can pay them and they will go purchase the mulch, deliver it and spread it out for you for a nominal fee.

Since we have three children, my wife and I do it ourselves and employ the children to assist. These bags are maybe going to run you $2-$3 a piece and you might spend $150-$200 to get the amount that you need to cover your yard but it is going to make a huge difference and it does a lot of things.  It helps slow down the amount of weeds sprouting back up through mulch and gives your yard a nice vibrant pop of color on the flowerbeds. It helps to make the appeal of the outside of your house dramatic with a very minimal cost involved.  Last year around this time we did this at my grandmothers house before placing it on the market in this helped to get her homes sold in under two weeks.

While you are at the store picking up the fertilizer and mulch, I’d also recommend picking up a few inexpensive flowers that you could plant as well to give an added pop of color to the outside of your home. You don’t have to go crazy spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars here, but just a few crates will make a big difference.

And the third thing that I would do, and actually I would do this one probably before putting the mulch out is get out the pressure washer. This thing right here is your best friend. Take it entire exterior of your home. If you have a side of your house that doesn’t get very good sun, you may start to have some mold/mildew growing on the side of the house. With a little bit of hard work and time, you can get that mildew removed off the side of the home in no time.  Since we have such warm humid climates in Myrtle Beach, this unfortunately can cause the mildew you to grow quicker than in other parts of the country. I have to do this to my house 2 to 3 times a year.

While you have the pressure washer out, take it to your grill, take it to your smoker, take it to your patio, clean off all the pollen from the spring time coming through and it’s going to make a huge difference. This is going to take you a little bit of time, and a little bit of labor, but once again, the end result is going to be huge. I even use an attachment for the sidewalks and driveway to get them clean. Once again, you can do this project yourself, or hire somebody for a few hundred dollars to do it for you.

So here are a few simple tips to help you get your home ready for sale in Myrtle Beach for this year’s spring market. If you have any questions feel free to contact me. Or, if you have a home that you want to sell this spring in Myrtle Beach, feel free to call me directly at 843-222-9402.