Light Switch

So I get around a bit, not so much it is a bad thing but I have been in a few houses.  When you visit a home unknown to you, you have certain expectations.  You walk into a dark room and look to the left and right inside the door for a switch, no switch you look for a lamp, no lamp a draw string.  Another expectation might be that if you find a switch, and you switch it, something will happen.  If nothing happens I, and maybe the buyer I am with, will suspect something is wrong.  I will think that there is a dawn to dusk sensor or there is a bulb burned out, or the fixture is around a corner or outside, maybe just maybe a bad switch, but my buyer thinks there is an electrical problem. My god, who would buy a house with an electrical problem?

When you create your prep-to-sell list of to-do items, make sure you take an inventory of your switches and see that when you switch them, something happens.  If nothing happens, fix it, plug something in so something does happen or leave a note as to why nothing happens (exterior fixture, garage light etc.)

While I have your ear, replace all of your older but grounded two prong outlets with three prong.  That, to some cries $2.50 and 10 minutes, to others it cries “electrical problem.” and who buys a house with electrical problems.

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