Learn how to make your home ready to sell. There are many things you can do to make your house look much more inviting and increase it's value and the chance of selling it, with little effort.
There are many things you can do to make your house look much more inviting and increase it's value and the chance of selling it, with little effort, in fact.
Look at your house through the buyer's eyes. This will help you to see some quick fix areas. If you are too busy to do them yourself, you could hire someone, but to keep it inexpensive, doing it yourself is just as easy. First of all, start on the outside of the house, because once you put up the for sale sign, prospective buyers will be driving by looking at it. They expect to see a very inviting, attractive place if they are going to spend their hard earned money on it. Here are some things you can do to increase the marketability of your home.
-wash the outside of your home. Clean sells. Get rid of cobwebs and dirt! pick up everything in the yard and outside. Make it look nice and neat!
-get ideas of what needs to be done the most from friends or your realtor. Someone else might see something you don't.
-a good coat of paint! If you don't have time to paint the whole house, try just the trim, or you can hire someone to do it. Light, clean looking colors are best.
-think bright, light, fresh and clean. Change burned out light bulbs, paint paneling or dark colored walls, white or light. Nothing too overbearing or bright. Take down dark colored curtains.
-have a yard sale, this will help you de-clutter. Clutter gives the impression of your house being smaller than it really is. Get rid of everything you don't need. Move what you can possibly to your new home or you may have to rent storage space. The cleaner and neater the place is, the more attractive it will be. In this case, less is more!
-paint over interior water stains from leaks that have already been fixed. Even if the leaks are fixed, those ugly water stains make everybody nervous. They are an instant turn off.
-make sure all repairs are done. Buyers don't want to buy someone else's problem!
-deodorize, clean smelling is as important as clean looking. Open up the house, give it a good fresh airing out.
-clean the walls and the floors and the carpets. 80% of the attractiveness of a house is on the floor. Who wants to buy a house with dirty, stained, matted old carpet in it or old torn linoleum floors with dirty wax build up.
-give it sellable finishing touches. Get rid of your personal memorobilia and put in fresh flowers, wicker baskets, fresh decorative soaps, etc. Any easy quick simple home decorating tricks that will make the place look new and inviting.
Displaying your house in this attractive way will help you sell your house as someone else's potential home, for the most money in the least amount of time.
