Have you been considering selling your home in the near future? If you have, then it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take a good long look at your home, using an unbiased eye.
After all, a clean, appealing, well maintained home has much better odds of selling, selling for more, and selling faster.
When looking at your home, the thing you need to keep repeating to yourself is that “first impressions are lasting impressions.” This couldn’t be truer when it comes to selling real estate.
However, this doesn’t mean that you should take on a major renovation project just so that you can sell your home. Remember, there are no guarantees that you would recover the costs of an enormous overhaul.
The following are some practical tips
Your home should smell good. When this comes to selling the home, it means that there should be no noticeable odors. Make careful attempts to get rid of the following smells:
* Pet odors
* Stale cooking/food smells
* Cigarette smoke
Smell makes an enormous impact on people when they enter a home. Furthermore, while smokers and pet owners may not even notice the smells in their home – having become quite accustomed to them – they may be an overwhelming turn-off for potential buyers.
In this case, have a non-smoking, non-pet owning friend come over to perform a sniff test.
While it used to be recommended that you bake bread or steam cinnamon potpourri before potential buyers come, it’s no longer recommended. The same goes for spray air fresheners.
If you insist upon adding a scent to your home, make it a very – repeat, very – lightly scented candle, or scented oil. However, it’s better not to scent the home at all.
The best way to get rid of scent problems in a home isn’t to cover them up, but instead, it’s to remove them at the source. Recommended techniques for accomplishing this include:
* Scrubbing thehome
* Having the air vents cleaned
* Replacing old, smelly carpeting
* Smoking outdoors
Just like you, buyers are lazy when it comes to having to take on large projects within the home. They want to be able to move in and be happy with what they’ve bought.
If your home is in need of work, such as the following, you should tackle them before the potential buyers get to see it, so that all they will picture is moving day, not all the work they’d have to put into the home e.g.
* Old, dated wallpaper
* Ratty carpeting
* Cracked or peeling paint
* Cracked, broken, or missing tiles
* Other similar projects
Most buyers will want all of the important work done before they move in. They don’t want to have to worry about tearing the place apart as soon as they get their stuff inside.
They want to buy a home, and not remain unsettled for a long time while they bring the place to the level that they consider to be livable.
With each change that the prospective buyers calculate that they’d have to make to your home; they’ll become just that much more concerned. When it comes to selling your home, you need to make it your priority to assuage these concerns.
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