Preparing Your Home For Sale
Create Great Curb Appeal
Make the first impression count. Clean up, paint front windows and doors, keep the lawn mowed and the bushes trimmed, plant or pot colourful flowers, clear the sidewalks.
Make the first impression count. Clean up, paint front windows and doors, keep the lawn mowed and the bushes trimmed, plant or pot colourful flowers, clear the sidewalks.
Make The House Shine
A home in immaculate condition sells more quickly – and for more money. Wash windows inside and out, make sure kitchen and bath features gleam, shampoo or replace carpeting, clean and dust throughout, take care of any pet odours.
A home in immaculate condition sells more quickly – and for more money. Wash windows inside and out, make sure kitchen and bath features gleam, shampoo or replace carpeting, clean and dust throughout, take care of any pet odours.
De-Personalize
You want buyers to imagine themselves living in your home. Pack up those family heirlooms and personal photographs.
You want buyers to imagine themselves living in your home. Pack up those family heirlooms and personal photographs.
De-Clutter
Less is more in creating home appeal. Keep counters free of personal items, pare furnishings down to the bare essentials, pack up those cute knickknacks.
Less is more in creating home appeal. Keep counters free of personal items, pare furnishings down to the bare essentials, pack up those cute knickknacks.
Make Minor Repairs
Don’t let maintenance shortcomings affect the sale. Patch any holes in the walls. Consider painting them in a neutral colour. Replace cracked floor or counter tiles, fix leaky faucets and doors that don’t close properly, replace burned-out light bulbs.
Don’t let maintenance shortcomings affect the sale. Patch any holes in the walls. Consider painting them in a neutral colour. Replace cracked floor or counter tiles, fix leaky faucets and doors that don’t close properly, replace burned-out light bulbs.
Remove Favourite Items
If buyers don’t see something, they won’t want it to be part of the deal. Remove fixtures or window coverings now if you’re going to take them with you.
If buyers don’t see something, they won’t want it to be part of the deal. Remove fixtures or window coverings now if you’re going to take them with you.
Rearrange Closets And Cabinets
Tidy, organized closets make a positive statement about your home. Keep medicines and other personal items out of sight, pack away much of your clothing, neatly arrange clothing, neatly arrange shoes and shelf items.
Tidy, organized closets make a positive statement about your home. Keep medicines and other personal items out of sight, pack away much of your clothing, neatly arrange clothing, neatly arrange shoes and shelf items.
Show Your Home In The Best Light
Your home needs to be at it friendliest when buyers go through it. Open the drapes and let the sunshine in, have fresh flowers on display, set a comfortable temperature.
Your home needs to be at it friendliest when buyers go through it. Open the drapes and let the sunshine in, have fresh flowers on display, set a comfortable temperature.
Lighten Up At Night
Turn on the excitement by turning on all your lights, both inside and outside, when showing your home in the evening. Lights add colour, warmth, and make prospects feel welcome.
Turn on the excitement by turning on all your lights, both inside and outside, when showing your home in the evening. Lights add colour, warmth, and make prospects feel welcome.
Be Absent During Showings
Try to leave your home during showings to give potential buyers comfort when they are viewing your home.
Try to leave your home during showings to give potential buyers comfort when they are viewing your home.
Watch Your Pets
Dogs and cats are great companions, but when you’re showing your home, pets have a talent for getting underfoot. So do everyone a favour, keep Kitty and Spot outside, or at least out of the way.
Dogs and cats are great companions, but when you’re showing your home, pets have a talent for getting underfoot. So do everyone a favour, keep Kitty and Spot outside, or at least out of the way.
Think Safety
Homeowners learn to live with all kinds of self-set booby traps: roller skates on the stairs, extension cords, slippery throw rugs and low handing overhead lights. Make your residence as non perilous as possible for uninitiated visitors.
Homeowners learn to live with all kinds of self-set booby traps: roller skates on the stairs, extension cords, slippery throw rugs and low handing overhead lights. Make your residence as non perilous as possible for uninitiated visitors.
Be Prepared
You never know when your agent may need to show your home on a moment’s notice. So make your beds and tidy up each morning, just in case.
You never know when your agent may need to show your home on a moment’s notice. So make your beds and tidy up each morning, just in case.
Defer To Experience
When prospects want to talk price, terms or other real estate matters, let them speak to an expert – your Real Estate Sales Associate.
When prospects want to talk price, terms or other real estate matters, let them speak to an expert – your Real Estate Sales Associate.
