If you want a slick and quick sale of your home, at the best possible price, there are a few simple steps to achieving this. Being professional, proactive and business-like is vital. Forward planning with care and attention will help too. A successful sale is not based on luck.
What follows is a guide to preparing your home, to make it saleable and attractive to potential buyers. Try not to be subjective and emotional; this is only a house, bricks and mortar, just like any product in a shop. It's not your home. Let it go, and look to the future, when you'll move on and this house will no longer be yours.
Have in your mind's eye the moment where you hand over the keys, and various paperwork. Bid farewell to each and every room, and look to the future, and where your new home will be.
Make your house a blank canvas. Pack away your personal belongings, make the walls bare. This way, you'll allow buyers the freedom to imagine this house as their home; their possessions, heirlooms and other personal items in place. They can't do this if your things are in the way.
Most of us accumulate things unnecessarily over the years. Do you really need everything? If you've not used something for over a year, you probably don't need it. Give it away to a friend or family member, even the local charity shop. Pack up your books, and send to storage any other non-essential items. For those items you use every day, have a box to put them in, and keep this hidden away when not in use. This will also be motivation to get cracking with your packing!
Buyers looking around your house will be nosey. They'll look in drawers, cupboards and wardrobes. If you minimise clutter, and everything's neat and tidy, this will help to give a good impression, as well as showing how much you have cared for the house. Hang up your shirts neatly, clear the tables, and keep the kitchen clean and tidy. This makes you and your house look good, and is encouraging to buyers.
If you have a lot of furniture in your house, send it to storage. There's nothing worse than a cluttered home; your buyers need to have the freedom to look around easily, as well as imagine each room as their own, and how they will use it. Once the bookcases are bare, remove them. If any items of furniture make a space look cramped, remove those too.
To help your house look as well maintained as possible, take the time to repair any minor issues. If there are holes in the walls, patch them up. Fix any doors or windows that are difficult to open or close. Make the effort to paint walls neutral colours. There's nothing worse than a buyer remembering your house for a green bathroom or pink bedroom!
What follows is a guide to preparing your home, to make it saleable and attractive to potential buyers. Try not to be subjective and emotional; this is only a house, bricks and mortar, just like any product in a shop. It's not your home. Let it go, and look to the future, when you'll move on and this house will no longer be yours.
Have in your mind's eye the moment where you hand over the keys, and various paperwork. Bid farewell to each and every room, and look to the future, and where your new home will be.
Make your house a blank canvas. Pack away your personal belongings, make the walls bare. This way, you'll allow buyers the freedom to imagine this house as their home; their possessions, heirlooms and other personal items in place. They can't do this if your things are in the way.
Most of us accumulate things unnecessarily over the years. Do you really need everything? If you've not used something for over a year, you probably don't need it. Give it away to a friend or family member, even the local charity shop. Pack up your books, and send to storage any other non-essential items. For those items you use every day, have a box to put them in, and keep this hidden away when not in use. This will also be motivation to get cracking with your packing!
Buyers looking around your house will be nosey. They'll look in drawers, cupboards and wardrobes. If you minimise clutter, and everything's neat and tidy, this will help to give a good impression, as well as showing how much you have cared for the house. Hang up your shirts neatly, clear the tables, and keep the kitchen clean and tidy. This makes you and your house look good, and is encouraging to buyers.
If you have a lot of furniture in your house, send it to storage. There's nothing worse than a cluttered home; your buyers need to have the freedom to look around easily, as well as imagine each room as their own, and how they will use it. Once the bookcases are bare, remove them. If any items of furniture make a space look cramped, remove those too.
To help your house look as well maintained as possible, take the time to repair any minor issues. If there are holes in the walls, patch them up. Fix any doors or windows that are difficult to open or close. Make the effort to paint walls neutral colours. There's nothing worse than a buyer remembering your house for a green bathroom or pink bedroom!
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