Tips For Preparing Your Home For The Market

You’ve decided to sell your home. You found an agent you can trust to represent your best interests. You’re motivated to sell fast and for top dollar. Now what? Prepping your home to be viewed by potential buyers will have a huge impact on its marketability. A few tips to consider:

• Repaint walls with neutral colors – A fresh coat will stand out, bland colors might not. Make color choices that will compliment your home, but not so bold as to narrow your audience. Repair any nail holes, damage you find along the way.
• Clean up – A tidy and well organized home will make it more appealing and gives the buyer a better idea of the space they have to work with. Pay attention to the details: dust on top of the fridge, cobwebs on your ceilings, dirty window screens, etc.
• Keep an eye on the little things – Some small scale renovations can go a long way. Get to those little things you’ve been meaning to fix, lest potential buyers notice them.
• It’s not your home anymore (in time, anyway) – Personal items that made it yours may distract a buyer and not give them ample opportunity to envision how the home will work for them. Plan on packing up pictures, mementos, etc. anyway – get a head start.
• Bring life into your home – a few well-placed plants energize a space and can bring focus to features of the home that will impress.
• Arrange any remaining furniture to compliment the room and give it a bigger sense of space.
• Optimize closet & storage space. When a perspective buyer opens a closet or panty, they want to see how much room they’ll have to keep their items, not how you managed to stuff that last can of beans into the pantry or that last sweater box into the closet. See it from the eyes of your buyer.
• Spruce up your curb appeal – The first thing a potential buyer or passer-by sees is the exterior, impress them from the outset by cleaning up, sweeping driveways and walk ways, trimming shrubs and pulling weeds.

Your agent can give you a few more suggestions to prep your home to sell fast and for a great price. A few home improvements here and there can go a long way!