7 Tips for Orange County Home Sellers
Posted by Leslie Eskildsen on Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 4:47pm.What To Do Before You Sell Your Orange County Home
The key to getting your house ready to sell is to make it look as attracive as possible to as many buyers as possible. And since some statistics report the 90% of home buyers begin their search on-line, you have to make your home a star right from the start.
The thing to keep in mind is that you need to decorate your home to sell, not how you like to live in it. We tend to surround our living spaces with things that make us happy and comfortable - photos, collections, handiwork, children's art work, mementos of events and places. Buyers just want to see if your house will work for their "stuff" and life style. You need to create an emotional experience for potential buyers. Here are some powerful tips to help you make your house shine.
1. De-Clutter - use this opportunity to begin your packing. Go through each room and "clear the decks." Divide anything that is not stored away into three categories - pack, pitch, donate.
2. De-Personalize - family photos, collections, unique art or furniture pieces are a disctaction to buyers. They will spend their time looking at your stuff instead of looking at your house. Don't give them the chance!
3. Remove Wallpaper - this is one of the first things buyers will change - beat them to it and take it out of the equation.
4. Re-Paint - if your walls are scuffed, market, dingy, dated, or painted in bold, unique colors, time to repaint. Again, this is on of the first things buyers will need to change to make the home theirs. Beat them to it!
5. Clean all surfaces - counters, walls, carpets, all floors, ceilings, cabinets, appliances. Pet and smoke odors also must be removed.
6. Repair anything that is broken - buyers will make a mental list of everything they can see that needs to be repaired - and their cost esitmates are scary! They will subtract their number from your asking price, and add on more deductions for the things that imagine are broken that they can't see. Don't lead them down that path - help them realize how well-maintained your home really is.
7. Stage where ever possible - you know what staging is - you've seen all the HGTV shows. Turn your bedrooms into hotel rooms - make each room sing its praises and invite the buyers emotional response - go for the response Ty Penninton gets each time a family walks into their new home for the first time!
These are some simple yet effective tips to make your home sell as fast as possible for as much as possible. And when you are ready to start - ask your Realtor for help! Call me at 949-678-3373 for more information.
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