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how to make our open house a success?

WendyKWendyK
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We are having our first open house this weekend. Our house is immaculate but is there anything else I can do to make it "shine." Thanks guys!

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Re: how to make our open house a success?

  • Bride2b2004Bride2b2004 member
    Bake some cookies so it smells homey. You could leave some out for attendees.
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  • DevonPowDevonPow member

    Fresh flowers. Tasteful fall decorations. I like having baked goods out, but don't burn a candle, etc. to make it smell nice. I am always suspicious of open houses where they are burning scented candles...it makes me wonder what smells they are trying to cover up :)

    Definitely light a fire if you have a fireplace.

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  • audrey79audrey79 member

    Ditto the baking thing... also, have a candy dish out and bottled water available. Try to put away all items that you don't 100% absolutely need to use daily. That way the place will look bigger and cleaner. Try to put away personal items like pictures, picture frames etc. You want the prospective buyer to imagine the home as being THEIRS... kinda hard to do when there's a million and one pictures of the current homeowner staring at them... Unless it's for sale by owner... disappear!  People won't be honest or truthful when the homeowners are around...

    These are some tricks we used (and were told to us by our realtor) to sell our townhome a few years ago. We only needed the 1 open house and we had an instant offer.

     

    GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!

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  • juniper19juniper19 member
    Make sure you don't have too many family photos up.  ZERO clutter.  Organize the closets.
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  • WendyKWendyK
    thanks ladies. I am going to use our scentsy candle that is sugar cookie, it smells like you just baked cookies. Cannot burn the fireplace because it is going to be 70 this weekend:)
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  • WendyKWendyK
    Love the bottle water idea!! Our house is very organized and clean right now, our realtor commented that it looked like a model. I am just super nervous.
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  • VivaAmoreVivaAmore
    They'll probably do this anyway but turn on all the lights, even if it's during the day. Good luck!
    Mia (6~24~06) & Jillian (6~29~09)
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  • Rebekah1021Rebekah1021
    If you are sneaky like DH and I, put on your web cams and use a nanny cam too. You certainly learn a lot from them.
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