Getting your home ready to sell can be a lot of work. If you’re selling your home, you most likely want it to sell quickly, and for top dollar. It’s important to realize that things such as a clean house (no dirty carpets or cobwebs hanging from the light fixtures, for example), as well as a house with no clutter – will bring you top dollar in the least amount of time. Therefore, the work you do to prepare your house to go on the market is well worth the time and effort you expend.
Detach Yourself
It’s important to adopt an attitude of detachment when getting your home ready to sell. Most likely, you have lived there for years and there are a lot of memories you and your family accumulated there. However, it’s so important now, more than ever, to realize that you made a decision and that you must now regard the current situation as a project that requires a successful conclusion – namely, selling the house for top dollar. Focus on the future and why selling your house is required in order to happily move forward.
One thing to make sure you do is to “de-personalize” your house. Remove family photographs or anything else of a personal or sentimental nature. Make it easy for potential buyers to visualize their own photographs and personal items in the house. This is just another way to ensure a relatively quick sale. Remember, that’s your goal.
De-Clutter
The de-cluttering process in getting your home ready to sell is crucial. A neat, organized, and clean house is one that will leave potential buyers with a good feeling, and maybe even an offer to buy! Picture a scenario where the house they look at either right before or after yours has piles of clutter in every corner and dirt stains in the carpet. Which house will they likely prefer – yours or the cluttered one? Exactly.
Remember These Things
Getting your home ready to sell is never a waste of time. In fact, think of it as the first step in packing up to move to your new home. In this phase, you are clearing off countertops and cleaning out closets and cupboards so that not only does your house look appealing to potential buyers, but you also have the opportunity to give or throw things away, or to start organizing things and packing them away in boxes (which you will have to do eventually anyway, in order to move out of the house).
Also, be sure to make any obvious repairs, such as fixing a broken fence. Furthermore, re-doing dirty or peeling caulk in the bathroom, and touching up the paint on a wall where it is noticeably scratched off, goes a long way toward giving a good first impression of the house to potential buyers.
In short, look at your house from the outside, and from the entrance into the foyer, and each room, as if you were the one considering to buy the house. Would your house be on the list of houses that you would consider buying – or on the “other” list?
Even if you will be moving and replacing your primary home with another, you might be interested in reading my blog article, “Purchasing a Second Home,” for some useful tips.
In closing, remember to contact me to help you in the home buying or selling process. I’ll help make a process that can be overwhelming into one that is enjoyable with minimal stress.
Dana
Dana Davis Properties
386-569-4998