SELLING TIPS

Every seller wants their home to sell fast and fetch the highest price possible. Does that sound good to you?

Well, it's not luck that makes that happen. It's careful planning and knowing how to professionally spruce up your home that will send home buyers scurrying for their cheque books. Here is how to prepare your house and turn it into an irresistible and marketable home.

Here's How:

The most important thing to do is:-
Disassociate yourself with your home and see it as a product to be sold.

De-Personalize.
Buyers can't see past personal artefacts, and you don't want them to be distracted. You want buyers to imagine their own photos on the walls, and they can't do that if yours are there! You want buyers to say, "I can see myself living here."

De-Clutter!
People collect an amazing quantity of junk. Consider this: if you haven't used it in over a year, you probably don't need it.

Rearrange Bedroom Closets and Kitchen Cabinets.
Buyers love to snoop and will open closet and cabinet doors. Think of the message it sends if items fall out!

Rent a Storage Unit.
Almost every home shows better with less furniture. Remove pieces of furniture that block or hamper paths and walkways and put them in storage.  Leave just enough furniture in each room to showcase the room's purpose and plenty of room to move around.

Remove/Replace Favourite Items.
If you want to take window coverings, built-in appliances or fixtures with you, remove them now. If the chandelier in the dining room once belonged to your great grandmother, take it down. If a buyer never sees it, they won't want it. Once you tell a buyer they can't have an item, they will covet it, and it could blow your deal. Pack those items and replace them, if necessary

Check Curb Appeal.
If a potential buyer drives past and doesn’t like the exterior of your home it’s hard to get them to come inside for a viewing.
Keep the pavements cleared.
Mow the lawn.
Paint faded window trim or clean uPVC frames.
Plant yellow flowers or group flower pots together. Yellow evokes a buying emotion. Marigolds are inexpensive.
Trim your bushes and hedges.
Make sure visitors can clearly read your house number.

Make Minor Repairs.
Replace cracked floor or counter tiles.
Patch holes in walls.
Fix leaky taps.
Fix doors that don't close properly and kitchen drawers that jam.
Consider painting your walls neutral colours, especially if you have grown accustomed to purple or pink walls. (Don't give buyers any reason to remember your home as "the house with the orange bathroom.")
Replace burned-out light bulbs.
If you've considered replacing a worn bedspread, do so now!
Make the House Sparkle!

How to Sell a House Where Pets Live
Almost everybody loves pets except the home buyer who is buying your house. Don't ask me why, but that's often how it works out

Why Don't Home Buyers Like Your Pet?
Nervousness. Pets make some people very uncomfortable. Not everybody grew up with a family pet or enjoys outings at the zoo. Fur and four legs doesn’t make a human

Preferred Pet Solution
You're not going to like this but I'll say it anyway, fully realizing that this very excellent piece of advice is likely to fall on deaf ears. The best thing to do to ensure top price for your home is to relocate your pets while your home is on the market. Putting them in the back yard, in the garage or in another room that you keep locked is insufficient, and it's not fair to them. You need to remove them from the house.
Let a friend or relative care for Fluffy and Spike.
Board them at a kennel.
Send them on vacation.

Overcoming Negatives Associated with Your Pets
If you shrug off all professional advice and absolutely refuse to move your pets out of the house, then at least minimize the objections and nuisance factors, real or otherwise:
Cat Litter Boxes & Dog Potty Pads
Keep them out of sight and impeccably clean. Nothing turns off buyers faster than opening the door to the laundry room and being greeted by a full or stinky cat box.

Carpet & Floor Pet Stains
Hire professionals to remove the stains. Buyers will spot them and form unfavourable opinions about the rest of the house. If the stains can't be removed, then remove the floor covering and replace it.

Pet Odours and Smells
Cat urine is the worst. Without question. The Worst! Bring in a neighbour to do a whiff test.

Do not use air fresheners. People with allergies will react.