Are you getting ready to sell your home, not sure where to start? Preparing your home for sale is a crucial step in selling for top dollar! Here are a few of our useful tips for selling your home for top dollar in any real estate market!

Deep Cleaning

Making sure that you give your home a very thorough deep clean to leave a positive lasting impression on any potential buyers is a crucial step in selling your home fast and for top dollar.

If you smoke it’s a good idea to start smoking outside the home to ensure that your home appeals to the masses and maintains that fresh clean scent.

Removing Clutter

Less is more when we’re talking about staging the home, the less clutter the better. Removing personal items like the wall of family photos, grandma’s doll collection, your knickknacks, kids art projects from the refrigerator, dog toys, etc., allows buyers to see the space as it is naturally and allows them to see themselves in the home. Decluttering also makes the home look and feel larger and helps gives the “WOW” factor!

Furniture

Large dressers in small bedrooms can be tasteful and functional yet do not do well when selling your home; a lot of large furniture makes your room feel smaller and it becomes harder for the buyer to visualize their furniture in the space. Every buyer has a different style, you may love your vintage sofa & chair set but if the furniture is really dated it can sometimes make the home feel dated or can create a misconception about how the home has been maintained.

Dealing with large furniture can truly be challenging; large and sometimes heavy furniture has to be moved somewhere and when you have buyers coming through the home, your garage or basement may not be the most ideal place to store everything. Getting a storage pod or storage unit for these items that you are keeping for your next home is the best option to keep all spaces of the home free of clutter and oversized furniture.

A pro tip from MHM Professional Staging “Only keep the necessary pieces of furniture, getting rid of anything that impedes traffic flow, and edit your décor with just enough to give it warmth and define each space.”

Replace Dated Fixtures

Believe it or not switching out old light fixtures, faucets, cabinet handles, electrical face plates, etc., can make a very large impact on selling your home. Many buyers today want worry free and move-in ready homes. Taking care of these items, that we may think, “the new buyer will put in what they like” could make the difference between “it needs too much work” and “let’s write an offer”.

Linens

Using neutral bedspreads will help appeal to the masses and give that clean appearance of all areas of your home! No dirty laundry on the floor, no unmade beds and everything in it’s place! Clean lines! If you have curtains up or decorative towels in the bathrooms, keeping it all neutral allows people to not be distracted by your personal style and allows them to envision their own.

Paint

 Sticking with neutral paint selections helps to continue to appeal to mass amounts of buyers and not distract from what buyers should be looking at. Painting is something that is relatively simple to do but some buyers can get hung up on loud colors. If you have colors such as lime green, bright orange  or super dark colors, for example, you should consider repainting the space to something more neutral such as pale grays, off whites, tans, etc.

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