Prepping for home sale

Spring is not here yet and our neighbor is already having all sorts of fence companies to get quotes for PVC fence put up on his backyard. He is trying to sell his house since last year but had to put it off because of the housing market is still down the pipe. His current fence is like ours, chained link which is as old as our homes. I wants to get his home repainted inside out and replace the appliances before he puts it out in the market again this spring. We want to sell, too. We will have to see how his goes.