TIPS TO HELP SELL A HOME

The following suggestions have been provided by successful sellers and agents who have sold a property that could have been considered a "difficult home to sell".

1. Always look at the home from the buyer’s point-of-view. Be objective and honest.
2. Stimulate the buyers’ imagination by setting scenes. A warm fire, a chair with a quilt and a book on the table.
3. Create a spacious feeling in the home. Leave all interior doors completely open. 
4. Post a chart or sheet that identifies and accentuates the positive features of the home. 
5. Use folded quilts, bright colored pillows and fresh flowers to draw attention to positive features.
6. Use props such as a bright colored umbrella on a deck to point to back yard positives.
7. Disguise unsightly views, but do not use dark heavy curtains.
8. Place 3- or 4-inch glass shelves inside window frames and place small plants or stuffed animals on shelves but leave lots of light streaming through.
9. Eliminate bad odors. Get rid of the source. Then use Lysol®, potpourri, etc.
10. Make sure the front door area is immaculate and not cluttered.
11. Have a garage sale before the home is put on the market.
12. Maintain "comfort" in the home which lies somewhere between clutter and sterility.
13. When showing the home, make the interior of the home visible from the exterior.
14. If there is space, hang a two-person chair swing on the porch.
15. Place photos of the home during different times of the year (Holidays, barbecues, etc.) throughout the house.
16. Make sure all doors, electric wall plates and wall corners are clean and free of fingerprints.
17. Clean out and color code closets. Make them feel spacious.
18. Highlight the fireplace or wood burning stove.
19. Create counter space.

Quick Staging List before you have a showing: