6 Clever Things to Help Sell Your Home
Whether you are selling your home now, or down the road, you will want your house to stand out amongst the competition. It doesn’t take rocket science, but it does mean you have to be clever to cut through the fray and get top dollar for your home. The time and work will be worth it. After all, this is serious business and we’re dealing with possibly your largest investment.
Before you “do” anything, you will want to comparison shop. Put on your buyers hat, and look around your neighborhood at homes for sale – this is what your home will be competing against. Ask yourself how your home stacks up. The condition of your competition may be an indicator of how you should price your home and what buyers are looking for in your area. If other homes have new roofs or fresh paint, you may have to bite the bullet and do the same. Just remember, choose light, neutral colors with wide appeal, as bold hues can scare off buyers.
Here are some other things you should do to make buyers love your home:
- Spread Fresh Mulch
This is an easy and inexpensive way to spruce up your landscaping and make a great first impression. Pick up a few bags of mulch from the garden center, and heap it up in your planting beds and around small trees and shrubs. Fresh mulch will give the appearance of a well-maintained yard which sets the stage for what is to come inside. Potential buyers will think that a homeowner who takes the time to care for the landscaping will surely have taken care of the interior of the home.
- Swap Out Hardware
Sometimes small things can make a big difference. Take drawer pulls and knobs, for instance. Dated-looking hardware ages a room almost as much as outmoded cabinets. Fortunately, swapping out hardware is a much cheaper fix than refacing cabinets. Bring a few of your current knobs, pulls, or handles with you to the hardware store so you can make sure the replacements will fit the existing holes. Once you have new hardware that fills the bill, use a screwdriver to remove the old and install the new.
- Deep Clean Your Bathroom
You’re smart enough to scour the bathroom before an open house, but what are you going to do about that stained grout that’s bringing down the look of your freshly cleaned tile? Because it’s porous, even clean grout can look grungy, and that’s a major turnoff for buyers—but it’s also an easy fix. Start out by trying baking soda, vinegar, and a toothbrush, but if the grime won’t budge, escalate to a commercial grout whitener. These concoctions can clean, whiten, and seal grout, making a bath look decades younger—and cleaner.
- Clean Out Your Garage
Potential buyers will want to picture their car safely sheltered in your garage, alongside their landscaping tools and other items they plan on keeping there. Whether your home has a one-, two-, or three-car garage, visitors will probably fixate more on the functionality of the space than its total square footage. Here’s another instance where disciplined decluttering pays off. If your garage has become a dumping ground, get rid of the junk and install budget shelving and pegboard to hold the necessities neatly. You—and everyone who attends the open houses—will be delighted by your orderly, spacious garage.
- Clean Out Closet Clutter
Every home buyer is looking for more closet space, right? Well, even if storage space isn’t one of your house’s strengths, you don’t have to start knocking down walls to carve out more appealing closets. A much cheaper way to show your closets in their best light? Declutter. Cluttered closets—even large ones—look cramped and inconvenient. Weed through your closets and linen cabinets, and remove about half of the items. Box everything up and put it in storage until your house is sold. Or, better yet, use this opportunity to jettison some of it—packing and moving will be so much easier!
- Professionally Stage Your Home
Whether it’s simply rearranging and decluttering your personal items or whole home staging, home styling will help you achieve the look that buyers demand. You will need someone experienced and trained in preparing your home to maximize your net profit and appeal to more buyers. This is a service provided to clients by Templeton Real Estate Group with a signed listing agreement.
If you are looking to buy or sell a home in Boise, give the Templeton Real Estate Group a call @ 208.473.2203. We are a small yet highly skilled real estate team with decades of area expertise, service, property pricing, and negotiating. We are passionate about providing our clients with the best real estate experience available. Our office is located in East Boise’s beautiful Bown Crossing, just steps to Boise’s Greenbelt. You can learn more about the Templeton Real Estate Group on Realtor.com or contact us today to schedule your complimentary and confidential consultation.
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