Sellers TIPS
- To increase the likelihood of your home selling quickly, consider doing the following:
- Turn on all the lights during showings
- Play easy-listening or light jazz music during showings
- Consider baking cookies prior to a showing or open house to make your house smell good
- Remove everything from the floor (except furniture), including trash cans, water jugs, baskets, small scatter rugs, etc.
- Remove knickknacks, magazines, kitchen appliances on the counter, etc. (a guide is any object smaller than the size of a football is considered clutter)
- Depersonalized your house; contain all family photos to one space in the house and reduce the number of them
- Remove all items from the top and front of the refrigerator
- Remove extra chairs from around the kitchen table and extra leaves from the table itself
- Set your dining room table with formal dishes, if possible
- Increase the wattage in all light bulbs, especially hallways
- Wash and paint dirty walls; consider painting the home's interior to simplify the color palette and make the house cohesive; no one should be startled by any one of the room colors
- Clean carpets; if carpets are showing wear, consider replacing them with an inexpensive neutral colored carpet
- Remove all but the necessary pieces of furniture in each room
- Add plug-in air fresheners to the main living areas
- Power-wash the exterior
- Clean your windows
- Consider packing up to 1/3 the contents of your home and putting in a storage facility
