Your house is on the market – it needs to be at it’s best. Now is the time to take a step back and really take a good hard look at your home with objective eyes.
Nothing will turn a buyer away faster than walking into a prospective new home and smelling the odor or a dog or smoke. So be sure to keep your windows open for a good length of time before your house is being ‘shown’. Exchange that smell for the smell of fresh coffee and baking cookies – yes it’s the old standby but it does work. It will help the buyers identify and bond with your house.
A buyer wants to feel that you have taken good care of the home they are thinking of buying – so – make cleanliness your new motto of the day. This will put the buyers mind at ease that you have been mindful of your residence in other ways as well. So take time to clean everything from the baseboards up to the light fixtures. Hire a contractor to power wash windows, walkways and clean out eavestroughs. Fix those leaky faucets, fix the cracked tiles and redo the old caulking around the bathtub if it looks a bit shabby. One of the most important items to get in good shape is the furnace so spend some time making sure it is in good working order and clean and tidy – this will also help to make it look like new.
Remember that staged homes show better than competing homes for sale and are recognized by buyers as the best properties to see. As a professional Home Stager I am in the business of preparing a home for sale in order to help achieve the very best price in the fastest time. Remember that living in a house and getting a house ready for sale are two very different things.
Barbara Milligan
Legacy Re-Design & Interior Decorating
Office – 250-246-2073
Cell – 250-210-0710
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