If you want to speed up the sale of your home in this semi-slow market, you must make sure your home is in top-notch shape. The days of throwing a “for sale” sign up, attaching a lock box, and entering your home on the internet are long gone. Buyer’s are in charge now and they are more educated than ever. The internet has allowed buyers to learn and become experts in the home buying process.
You as a home seller must now educate your self to what a “buyer’s market” is and what it means to you as a home seller. You are going to have to work hard and team up with many professionals to be the shining star on your block – where in reality there is a constellation of homes on the market.
I am sure you have read all of these tips before and now you need to implement them.
1. You will not be living here anymore – so take down your personality. Remove all of your “do dads”, “trinkets” and photos of Aunt Carolyn’s last birthday. You want your home to look like a new construction model home. Bring a real estate home-staging professional on board your team.
2. Pack it up. You will be moving so rent a storage locker and move some of the crap family’s belongings out. Buyers want to see how spacious your home is. They want to imagine their crap possessions in your home.
3. Get it fixed! The title says it all, “Buyer’s don’t want to buy repairs”, and they don’t! I know several of you have a few of those small little projects you have been meaning to finish.
- Replace the cracked bathroom tile
- Re-caulk the Kitchen sink area
- Stain the back deck
- Patch the holes where Jason hung his CD collection
- Touch-up paint the baseboard molding
- Re-attach the end gutter piece
- Put that one electrical plate cover back on
- Replace the vinyl in the laundry room where you ripped it while trying to move the washer
- Install a new toilet in the kids bathroom
4. Do everything you are told. You are going to be hiring professionals to assist you in selling your home. Did you see that word “assist”? You need to remember you are a part of this team and you will have to pull your weight with the home selling plan. Your real estate agent, your home stagger and others will have precise instructions on what your roll is and what their roll is. Listen and Implement!
Give me a call if you need to chat about selling your home, I am always available to answer your questions and for FREE.
