Quality home sales require the proper kind of preparation for maximum impact. I will “walk” you though getting your house ready…
To optimize home sales $$$ and time, we need to make sure potential Buyer’s first impression is a good one. Here are few hints for making your house look great to potential buyers:
Exterior
- House in good repair
- House number easy to read
- Eaves troughs, down spouts and soffits in good repair
- Garage/car port clean and tidy
- Litter picked up
- Cracked or broken window panes replaced
- Lawns and hedges cut and trimmed, garden weeded and edged
- Walks shoveled and salted
- Boot tray inside front door
- Doorbell and door hardware in good repair
- Porch and foyer clean and tidy
- Exterior well lit—install timers
Interior
- Chipped plaster and paint touched up or replaced
- Doors and cupboards properly closed
- Leaky taps and toilets repaired
- Burned out light bulbs replaced
- Squeaky doors oiled
- Mirrors, fixtures and taps cleaned and polished
- Seals around tubs and basins in good repair
- Floors cleaned, garbage containers empty
- Bathrooms “squeaky” clean…toilet seats down
- Ensure bathrooms aren’t steamy from recent showers
- Inside of closets and cupboards neat and tidy
- Wash walls —clean finger prints
- Appliances cleaned
- Countertops neat and polished
- All lights turned on—install timers
- Air conditioner turned on in warm weather
- Fresh air in house
- Fireplace lit in cooler weather
- Halls and stairs cleaned
- Drapes opened during daylight
- Carpets freshly vacuumed
- Fresh flowers in various rooms
- Jewelry and valuables locked safely away or taken with you
- Valuable property, such as art, vases and figurines out of reach, out of sight or locked away
- Pets absent, where possible, or contained during the showing, and litter boxes clean
- No food odours
- Declutter as much as possible…buyers want to imagine their things in your space
- Consider using a stager
