Helpful Tips to Get Your Home Ready to Sell

Getting your home ready for selling can be very nerve racking and hard. Click Here for some helpful tips you can do to make the process a lot easier on yourself, and to ensure that you get top dollar for your real estate property.

The first thing you should do to get ready to sell your home is to “let go” of the home. You have to take into consideration that this will not be your home anymore. You should envision yourself saying good-bye to every room, handing over the keys to the buyer, and not looking back.

The next thing you should do to get your house ready for selling is to de-personalize. Pack up all of your personal items. You don’t want the buyer wondering who lived there. You want them to envision themselves living there. You don’t want your buyer to be distracted by all of your person items. Let them envision what their furniture will look like, and what their paintings and family pictures will look like hung up on the walls.

Next, take the opportunity to do a thorough cleansing. Take all of the items that you rarely or barely use, and either donate them to a local charity, or toss them in the garbage. No only will you declutter the house you’re trying to sell, more importantly you won’t traipse the useless junk to your new house.

You Should remove books from bookcases, pack up any little knickknacks you might have lying around or on shelves, and clean off everything from your kitchen counters. Take the essential items that are needed daily and put them in a closet or somewhere out of sight. This might even be a starting point to packing for your new house. You have to do it at some time anyway.

You should also clean up all closets and cabinets. Buyers like to snoop around when left alone. If everything is neatly organized they will believe that you have taken good care of the home. You could alphabetize spice jars, neatly stack dishes, have your coffee cup handles all facing the same way, have all of you clothing neatly hung together and facing the same way, and have all your shoes lined up the same way neatly organized.

Another thing you could do is get a storage unit and store your unused furniture or any furniture that is blocking walkways. Examples of this are to store your bookcases since they no longer have books on them, or take extra sections out of your dining room table to make the room look larger. You don’t want a lot of furniture everywhere. Leave only enough furniture so the buyer can tell what each rooms’ purpose is. You don’t want the buyer trying to figure out what function or role each room in the house has.

Next, you should take any items that you really want or any of your favorite things and pack them away. If you want any appliances or fixtures, you should remove them before showing your house. You can replace the items if you feel its necessary. You don’t want the buyer seeing the items and assuming that its all part of the deal.
Those are just a few helpful tips to get your home ready to sell. There are plenty of other things you could also do. A real estate agent in Guelph can help you with the rest of the items that can be done to improve the value of your house.