30 Top Selling Tips to Sell your Home

Selling a home takes action—action by the realtor and action by the seller.  However, some sellers spend LITTLE to NO time prepping their home for the market.  These tips will help you get ready for the selling of your home. 

This 6-part newsletter series will contain the hottest 30 tips to selling your home from the outside in.  Even if you aren’t presently selling your home, keep these tips handy for when the time comes & share with family, friends and neighbors who may be thinking of selling or who are already selling their homes.

Tips #20-16

20. Know Your Competition

If you owned a business, then you would probably visit other businesses similar to yours to get a feel for price, décor, etc so why wouldn’t you do the same thing for your home?  Go to other open houses in your neighborhood or area.  Listen to the people visiting the open house to see what they like and what they don’t so you can see how to improve your home.  See the marketing that is being done to advertise these homes.  Buyers will visit these homes in conjunction with yours so make yours the bell of the ball!

Bedrooms- Make Relaxation Key!

19. Pare It Down—No Office in the Bedroom

A bedroom is about relaxation—a place to wind down at the end of the day.  Homebuyers want to see a bedroom, not an office or a storage closet.  Having an office inside your bedroom makes homebuyers think “this house must be small if the office needs to be in here”.  If you have converted one of the bedrooms in your home to an office or a study, that is OK but make sure homebuyers are aware of the number of bedrooms available even if you don’t use them as such.  Clean out your junk room!  If it is a bedroom, fix it up.  Store your stuff somewhere else; go ahead and box it up, you are moving anyway!

18. Make It All About the Bed

B-E-D is the first three words of bedroom for a reason.  Make your bed the focal point of the room.  It should be located on the wall a homebuyer will see first.  There is no need for the homebuyer to wonder what this room is; make it obvious.  Make sure all the bedrooms in the home show themselves as just that, bedrooms.  If a room is being used as an office or study, then make sure it is advertised as a bedroom.  However, if there is an empty room or a “junk” room put up a bed—drag one out of storage, borrow from friends or family, or buy one at a yard sale and dress it up.

17. Create Instant Luxury

Homebuyers love luxury, even if it is pretend.  Homebuyers want to feel like they are in an oasis just for them.    Spruce up your master bedroom with matching bedding and curtains—even coordinate with a new paint color.  Make your bedroom a luxurious hotel suite that homebuyers will want to stay in.  They will forget, just for a moment, that their kids, dog and cat will also be in that bed and think it is just for them.

16. Clear Out the Closets

Homebuyers will look through every part of your home.  They will open closet doors faster than anything else.  So if you think you can just cram all your stuff in there and they won’t notice, you are mistaken.  It is time to clear out!  Show off the storage your home has.  Storage is high on the list of what a homebuyer wants because, let’s face it, we all have junk!  Go ahead and pre-pack stuff you don’t need right now.  Hang clothes up neatly, line your shoes up, hide the Christmas decorations and boxes of old toys somewhere else.  Make it a clean slate with lots of room!

See you next month for more Top Selling Tips on our way to #1!
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