Leave it to me to find a way to liken cooking ribs to selling real estate, but I think I have found a way. The parallels were so many I had to share. This weekend I had the honor of hosting both a casual reception after my infant daughter's baptism and a back yard barbecue for my older daughters 5th birthday. I spent Saturday making arrangements, one of the things I did was boil the baby back ribs I intended to smoke on Sunday. After an hour or so simmering on the stove I pulled the ribs and left the pot to reduce into my special sauce. After a night in the fridge the ribs looked average. They were bland in color, almost gray, the bones showed through in spots and they almost looked unappetizing.
Later on Sunday I put the first rack on the grill, in less than two hours, those gray, cold, unappealing ribs transformed by the way of smoke, heat and slathered on liquid love into the best ribs I had ever eaten. Think of that smoke, heat and sauce as preparing your home for sale. I could have eaten those ribs straight out of the pot, and they probably would have tasted great, but I didn't. I put in little extra effort that made for that much better a product.
Taking care of little things before you sell your home, and justifying those repairs and updates you had always wanted to make will help your home sell faster and for a better price. Will you get every nickel out of it that you put in in those final days? Will you care when you sell your house faster than your neighbor and are able to move on with your life, unburdened by a a second home, a bridge loan, or simply a desire to be elsewhere?
Take your time and put in that extra effort, your ribs will be that much better.
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