When selling you home first impressions are last impressions. You will never get a second chance to show a potential buyer your home. So don't put it on the market before it is truly ready for showing.
If you are truly ready to sell your home, walk outside to the curb and turn around. Now you are a buyer! Just as you are going to look at new homes, do the same with your present home. Do you like what it has to offer for curb appeal? Or would you immediately start criticizing the home? A potential buyer will do that exact thing.
Now, walk up to the front door. Don't just walk in, really look at the front door and everything around the front door from about 3 feet away. This is what every buyer is doing while they wait for their Realtor to unlock the front door. Is the door painted? Is the trim in good shape?
Once you have entered the home, how does it smell? Can you smell anything? Try this, for $1.75 you can buy Toll House Cookie Dough and make fresh cookies daily. This will make your home have a very pleasant smell and seem like a place people will want to come home to.
Walk into the bathroom, is it dingy? Paint it up for $10 and buy some new towels for $20. All this makes the buyer want to live in a home. They want to see a place that has been taken care of. Not a home that the people selling obviously only want to sell because it is run down and they want to start over in a new home.
If you don't feel you can't be objective in the image of your home, feel free to call me anytime and I will gladly take you through your home and help you look at as a buyer would.
Todd Clark - broker
Kastings & Associates
(503)524-9494
Todd@IFoundYourNewHome.com
www.IFoundYourNewHome.com
