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- Preparing Your Home for Sale
Buying real estate is often an emotional decision, but when selling real estate you need to remove emotion from the equation. Your house is a marketable commodity. And your goal, when preparing your home for sale is to get others to see it as their potential home.
Here are some tips from professional home stagers and our real estate agents in preparing your home for sale.
- Be flexible with showings. A lockbox insures easy showing appointments with minimal hassles.
- Prepare to be gone for showings; to put buyers at ease in viewing and asking questions.
- Mow and trim the lawn. Weed flower beds.
- Clear any clutter from the yard, porch and decks.
- Review each room and closet as if you were the buyer.
- Clear and remove any items/papers/etc. from counter tops, the refrigerator, and “catch-all corners”. If an item hasn’t been used in 3 months remove it. . (The less clutter in a kitchen helps the buyer mentally move their own things into your kitchen.)
- Remove excess furniture to make rooms more spacious. Clean and organize the closets. Store boxes in an out-of-the-way location or rent a temporary storage unit so you can de-clutter every part of the house.
- Pack up the bulk of large, personal collections, so that buyers don't get so interested in looking at them that they forget to look at the house.
- Pack away most of your family photos. Buyers need to imagine their possessions in the home.
- Kitchens and Bathrooms are the most important rooms to a buyer.
- Buy or borrow living houseplants. They look better than artificial ones.
- Remove area rugs if they expose nice hardwood floors.
- Create a mood. Bake bread, pie or cookies or burn candles during showings.
- For Day Showings, be sure to leave all curtains open, for natural lighting. For Night Showings, turn on many lamps and insure good lighting.
- If you're thinking of selling your home this year, NOW is the time to get your house ready to sell. Please don't hesitate to call if you would like to know the value of your property in today's market. You pack, we’ll sell.
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