Home Selling Tips
One of the most important things to remember when selling
your home is to keep it as clean as possible. If you need help or don't
have the time to organize your stuff, you can hire a home staging
professional in your area. Ask your real estate professional for more
information.
1. Remove any clutter from the home and place it in storage. Do not
store this stuff on the property if you don't have enough room. Storing
clutter in closets or in your garage, will often make these areas look
smaller. By removing clutter or even large pieces of furniture, the
rooms will look larger.
2. Disconnect yourself emotionally from your home. This is a big problem
for people who have lived in their house for long periods of time. If
you've raised a family here, the children could have emotional ties also
to the home. Some home sellers are looking for someone special to buy
their home, if you've got the time and money to wait, you can be
selective but be careful, because the longer you wait, the market could
go up or down.
3. When your real estate professional is
showing the house, it's always a good idea to leave the home until the
potential homebuyers are gone. One example of this would be if you were
in a bad mood or didn't have a good day and were a little upset at the
world. Your mood could cause potential homebuyers to lose interest in
the property. I've seen this more than once.
4. Make sure everything is operating properly. This would include doors,
door knobs, windows, kitchen appliances, garage door openers, cabinet
drawers, bathroom fixtures, toilets, faucets, lights, switches,
electrical outlets and anything else that moves, slides, turns or
rotates that is part of the home.
5. The Interior and exterior walls of the home should be in good shape.
Make sure there's no termite damage, wood rot, peeling paint, broken
windows or holes in the walls.
6. Make sure the flooring is in good shape. Some real estate
professionals will suggest, replacing the carpeting with a neutral
color. This method often works pretty good but I have seen plenty of
homes that were re-carpeted and after the home was purchased the
carpeting was replaced again, by the new owners. Just make sure the
flooring is in good shape.
7. Here's a trick that definitely works a little magic when selling a
home. Leave some cookies or a nice fruit bowl on the dining room table.
There is no need to leave a sign that says "Eat Me". It gives the home a
warm feeling, almost like a country atmosphere.
8. Even better than home selling tip number seven would be baking some
cookies just before the perspective buyers arrive, it's not the cookies,
it's the smell from the cookies that most people cannot resist.
These are just a few
home selling
tips but the most important is to keep the inside and outside of the
home clean.