Prepare Your Home For Selling In Highlands Ranch, CO and surrounding South Denver Metro areas
Getting ready to sell your home? Need to prepare your home for selling in Highlands Ranch, CO and surrounding South Denver Metro areas?
Before you list your home for sale, the pre-sale preparation steps below provide tips for whipping your home into shape and wow potential buyers.
A few minor touch-ups can go a long way towards making a favorable impression on potential buyers and increase the odds of cinching a deal. Remember to put yourself in the mindset of a potential buyer and look at your home, both inside and outside, and replace or repair those things that you would notice and important as a buyer.
Checklist to Prepare Your Home For Selling
The checklist below outlines the essential steps and considerations to prepare for selling your home. If you hire a realtor, they will be great to use for advice in addressing each item on the checklist.
- Clean and Polish. Clean everything, especially those items like fan blades, mantles, shelves and areas that may be noticed from an upstairs stair case, polish your appliances and faucets, and wash your windows. Consider hiring a cleaning service to assist.
- Repaint the walls neutral colors. As much as you love your reds, greens, pinks and blues, it could turn off some of your potential buyers. Consider repainting those rooms in neutral tones like tans and whites that allow buyers to focus on the spaces themselves, not the color of the walls.
- Simple decor. Decorations that stay up should be ones that help buyers imagine themselves in your space. Consider removing items that might turn off people with different tastes. Potted plants or flowers in a vase can help fill in empty corners or draw attention to features you want buyers to notice. In addition, remove anything overly personal, like family photos in the hallway or your kids’ artwork on the fridge.
- Clear out the clutter.You want buyers to focus on how awesome your space would be for them, not on how messy the home looked. Remove anything that detracts from your home’s selling features.
- Get rid of bulky furniture. Your furniture in living rooms and bedrooms should fit the scale of the room, so put in storage or get rid of any extra or over-sized items that could make your space look smaller than it really is.
- Organize your closets. Storage space is a huge selling point, and if your closets are stuffed to the brim, buyers will think you don’t have enough of it. Invest in some boxes, dividers and other solutions that will help you make your stuff look more organized, and remove and put in storage any extra items you don’t need immediately.
- Complete that honey-do list.All those little things you’ve been meaning to do but never got around to should be addressed. Buyers will notice them, and they’ll detract from the value of your home. So pre-plan hiring a handyman prior to putting your home up for sale to address the home repair/maintenance task list.
- Minor/Faux Upgrades. Small upgrade tweaks can make a big difference in the overall feel of a room. For example, if your kitchen or bathroom is a little outdated, consider replacing fixtures, faucets, sinks, mirrors, lighting, knobs and hinges. Also, for bathrooms, consider staging some coordinating tones of washcloths, towels & mats and some candles to create a feeling of a relaxing spa.
- Give each room a purpose.For example, if you have a general open area or spare room, clearly stage the space to showcase the purpose of the room, such as a game room or office, so buyers can see themselves in your home using that space.
- A bright, cheery room is more inviting so allow all the windows to let in natural light and consider adding lamps or other lighting in areas that are dark.
- Fresh smells. When cooking, consider cooking foods where the smell is not strong and lingers for a long time. You want your home to smell fresh and clean. Consider scented candles or air fresheners.
- Boost the curb appeal. Don’t spend all your time indoors. Buyers may decide not to even enter a home based on its curb appeal, so make sure your home’s exterior looks excellent. Trim your shrubs, weed your flower beds, fix any peeling paint or caulk and keep the walkway clear. Adding a welcoming wreath and mat to your front door can make a big difference. Consider putting a fresh coat of paint on your front door. Replace faded house numbers so buyers can see them from the curb. Before the buying goes inside your house you want them to have a positive feeling about.
- Dry Run. After you are finished setting you home up for sale, do a dry run showing as though you’re seeing your home for the first time and tweak anything that needs work or adjustment.
- Close the toilet.When both showing and photographing your home, this can make a surprising difference.
- Online photos. Work with your realtor to have a professional photo shoot of your home as the majority of potential buyers will see your home online before they see it in person.
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