There are just so many, many homes on today’s real estate market. It is hard to make one particular home stand out to potential buyers. Even though your real estate agent will do the brunt of the work by getting your prospective buyers through the door, you still need to help her close the sale when they get there by ensuring that they like what they see.
After all, it isn’t like today’s buyers, in today’s buyer’s market, don’t have many other choices. You can significantly improve your chances of selling your home if you give just a bit of attention to staging the home appropriately for viewing and showings.
Easy Ways to Make Your Home More Attractive to Buyers
The goal of staging is to allow the would-be homebuyer to be able to vision themselves and their family or loved ones living in the home. You want them to move in, mentally at least. They must be able to see and feel themselves making the home their own, or they will simply keep looking elsewhere.
Staging the home is usually thought of as being a chore for the inside of the home, but in all reality, it makes a lot of sense to start staging from the outside. The yard, the porch, the curb…these are all things that the buyer will initially see when they pull in. You can’t change that fact, but you can make their experience outside a good one.
Trim your hedges, get your lawn in good shape, power wash your driveway, paint your front door and wash the windows. Make sure nothing is lying around that would make the home look unkempt. Buy new house numbers and put up a new mailbox, and put down a new welcome mat.
Yep, De-Clutter Is Still The Most Important Staging Advice!
De-cluttering is also important when you are staging your home to sell. Sure, you have lots of stuff. But having lots of stuff lying around will just make your home appear smaller than it is which can make some buyers turn away.
Get rid of all but the necessities. You are not selling your belongings, just your space. A buyer will find it difficult to visualize living in the room if there are too many objects scattered about.
A trick that some real estate agents suggest is going to the doorway of each room, and gleaning an impression from standing in the doorway. That’s what would-be buyers often do when viewing a home – they go door to door throughout the house, taking a peek at each room. Judge your work at staging each room from the doorway.
And perhaps the easiest, simplest, and yet least thought-of way to make your home more attractive to buyers is by employing good old “elbow grease” to give it a thorough, deep cleaning. An immaculately clean home is one that is cared for and loved.
Show would-be buyers that you appreciate and love your home by getting down into every nook, every cranny, and getting it spotlessly clean before they look at it. Give it the “white glove” test before the doorbell rings. A clean home sells faster and brings more money than one that is half-way clean or not clean at all.
Article provided by Allison Klein a Realtor in Fort Collins who specializes in helping buyers find the best deals on Fort Collins homes for sale including Fort Collins Patio homes and Old Town Fort Collins lofts.