Before you show your home to any potential buyers, you want to make sure the staging is perfect.
Follow these general tips and your home will look better than the competition.
Bye, Bye Clutter
The most important thing you can do to prepare your home for sale is to get rid of clutter.
One of the major contributors to a cluttered look is having too much furniture. When professional stagers descend on a home being prepped for market, they often whisk away as much as half the owner’s furnishings, and the house looks much bigger for it.
You don’t have to whittle that drastically, but take a hard look at what you have and ask yourself what you can live without.
Get Your House Sparkling Clean
From shining floors and gleaming windows to clean counters and scrubbed grout, every surface should sparkle. This is the easiest way to help your home put it’s best foot forward.
Open Your Closets
Potential buyers will look inside all your closets.
Closet space can be a make-it-or-break-it selling point. Even if you have to store a few boxes elsewhere, it’s worth it.
Aim to have 20 to 30 percent open space in each closet to give the impression of spaciousness. Make your closets look like a retail display.
Do Repairs
Now is the time to fix anything and everything in your house that is unfinished or broken.
The last thing you want is for a buyer to have negotiating power because of repairs you will have to fix any way before you close.
Try to look at your house “through a buyer’s eyes”. This exercise will help you see what needs to be done.
Once you accept the challenge that your are turning your home into a “model home” to sell at top dollar and in record time, you’ve won half the battle.
You will be well rewarded for your efforts!
Want to learn more? Contact Melinda Sullivan today