When you’re prepping your home for sale there are a few things you can do to give yourself a “leg-up” in this market. Things such as improving your landscaping, cleaning your gutters, pressure washing your siding and driveway, and keeping your lawn manicured all add to your home’s curb appeal and can ultimately help improve its chances at selling. Painting your door with a fresh coat of paint that contrasts with your home’s exterior color and replacing worn house numbers with new, easy to see alternatives will also help increase your home’s appeal. You should also consider making necessary repairs such as changing broken windows, fixing a leaking roof, or replacing cracked flooring. You want your home to make its best first impression, and to do that you need to maintain it so that buyers will be interested in a second look. When staging your home, be sure to remove all unnecessary clutter. Removing at least one piece of furniture from each room and clearing out clutter will not only simplify your life, it will help your home sell. While you’re decluttering, you should also remember to clean out closets and drawers. When your closets and drawers are stuffed to the brim or disorganized it makes your home appear as if it is short on storage space, which doesn’t work in your favor when trying to sell.
To give your home the best chance in today’s market, you should definitely consider these and other staging and sprucing tips. The difference between homes that sell and homes that don’t are often in the small details.
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