If you’re looking to sell your home quickly and for a good price, then take a look at some of our tips. Today we are discussing how to prep your home to sell.
A special thank you to Melissa Branson from Chamberlain Reality and Alice Decker from Decker8 Designs for sharing their expertise. These ladies know what it takes to prep a home for the market! Below are their best tips to prep your home to sell.
Setting The Foundation
When the time comes to selling your home, you’re probably feeling a mix of excitement and anxiety; selling your home is a big deal! You need a solid game plan if you want to make the most money from your home sale.
Our first tip is to schedule a consultation with a Realtor about 30-60 days out. This action will help set you up with a solid base for a successful, profitable home sale. Your Realtor will help you to create a customized plan based on your specific needs and situation.
Listing your home on the market, selling it quickly, and getting the most money is all about preparedness. The more prepared you, the more money you will get out of it and the smoother the process will go. As Melissa likes to say, a prepared seller is a happy seller.
How to Prep Your Home to Sell
Once you have an action plan in place for selling your home, then follow these tips for ultimate success.
- Make those home improvements
You know that old, stained carpet that you’ve been meaning to replace? Or that broken floorboard? Now is the time to roll up your sleeves and get to work on those home improvement projects. You want to put your best foot forward for potential buyers. Don’t give them any leverage for negotiating a lower price.
- Declutter and Detach
It’s usually only when we’re preparing to move that we realize the magnitude of the amount of stuff we have. Potential buyers don’t want to see your clutter; and you don’t want to pack up and move junk with you. It’s vital that you take the time to declutter and detaching from items that aren’t serving you any longer.
- Pre-Pack
Once you get rid of all the stuff that you don’t need then you can see what can be pre-packed. By pre-packing your items before you sell, you’re getting them out of the way so that your home can shine. Once you move into your new home then you can unpack them and find their place there. Buyers love seeing how much space is available, don’t cram cupboards and closets with stuff to obstruct their view.
- Depersonalize
Potential buyers want to see themselves living in your home, so it’s best to depersonalize it as much as possible. Takedown those family pictures and your kid’s artwork, you’ll find a place for those in your new home. Let your potential buyers focus on the features of your home, not your trophies, diplomas, and personal artifacts.
- Deep Clean
Deep cleaning is more than just running the vacuum across your floors and wiping down your countertops. This is the nitty-gritty clean that includes all those small, overlooked places that we typically never get to. Windows, baseboards, ceiling fans…you get the idea. It may even be worth your investment to hire a cleaning company to take care of this for you.
- Design
We all have our own style and like to keep our homes the way we like them. However, when it comes to selling your home, you really need to think about appealing to the masses. By adding in a few timeless design elements, you can really make your home stand out. Keep it simple and universally appealing for your best shot of selling quickly.
Get to Work!
Whether it’s your first home sale or your fifth, it really can feel intimidating to get started. However, when you’re armed with a solid plan, you can sell it quickly.
Thanks again to the contributing professionals for their pro tips for how to prep your home to sell. We hope you find these tips useful! Reach out to Pretty Neat to help with your next move.
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See you soon,
Audra
