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 or share with family, friends and neighbors who may be thinking of selling or who are already selling their homes.

Tips #10-6

Kitchens—The Heart of the Home

10. Cook up your Kitchen

The kitchen is the best place to do some rehabilitation.  Kitchens and bathrooms are   usually the most important to homebuyers.  If you have limited money to spend, spend it here.  Even modest updates will help with the sale of your home.  One of the easiest and cheapest rehabs is a new fresh paint color.  Kitchens get grimy over the years due to all the traffic and food it sees, and the walls being brightened can help this problem.  The cheapest approach of all is to just CLEAN.  Scrub the baseboards, the windows, the counters and the floor.  De-clutter the countertops and de-personalize the refrigerator by removing magnets and pictures.

9. Reheat your Cabinets

Most people decide that redoing the cabinets is just too expensive and do nothing to spruce them up.  Instead of thinking to replace the cabinets just refresh them!  For $100 you can buy stain, sealer and new hardware for the cabinets.   Be sure to use a high gloss paint or sealer so the cabinets really show themselves well.  $100 and some easy labor and you have new cabinets.

8. Use Counter Intelligence

Are they food chopping ready?  No potential homebuyer wants to see remnants of your family’s food habits.  Make sure they are clean and clutter free.  If they are in need of replacing, ask yourself what you can spend.  Everyone loves granite countertops but this may not be in your budget.  You can buy pre-fabricated countertops inexpensively, and many countertop stores sell remnant countertops, which are pieces of fancier tops (granite, marble).  Do the work yourself and save yourself the labor costs.  Countertops tend to be in one piece that needs little to no cutting.  Just glue, press and walk—the heaviness of the countertop will push it into place. If you always hated your countertops, chances are potential homebuyers will too.

7. Apply Yourself

Just remember that any and all money you spend on the rehab of your kitchen (or any room for that matter) will be reimbursed when you sell.  Most the time the money you get back is more than you actually spent so feel free to buy new things.  New counters, appliances and flooring will all go along ways with homebuyers.  Also don’t forget to apply yourself in the cleaning process.  Your refrigerator may not be part of the sale but you better believe homebuyers are going to open it.  Make sure it is not its own science experiment!  People will look at your cleanliness as a reflection of your home.

6. Open up your Kitchen

Open kitchens are very popular with homebuyers, and most new built homes have this style.  However, if your home is an older style where all rooms are separate, consider taking out a wall.  Some walls in a home are really just there for decoration—no major function for supporting the home—BUT before you start knocking down walls, it would be best to get someone with experience to look at the structure of the room.  Many times a simple wall removal can really open up a space.   Also if a whole wall is not possible, then you can just cut out the top portion of a wall to make the rooms flow together better.

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