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Give me your tips for listing a house
MrsCodeMonkey
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DH and I decided to put our house on the market sooner than we had originally planned. We have about a month to get ready. We will get a storage locker and move most of our stuff out. I don't think we have the time to paint, but I can do touch-ups.
We have a new counter and stainless sink and faucet to instal. We have done quite a bit so far, but there are always more things to do...
Does anyone have advice about staging?
We have a new counter and stainless sink and faucet to instal. We have done quite a bit so far, but there are always more things to do...
Does anyone have advice about staging?
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Re: Give me your tips for listing a house
Remove anything you can.
Clean as much as possible.
Replace any burnt out lightbulb
people get distracted really easily so don't have anything that makes it "your" house, so they can envision it being their house.
Here are pics:
Update bathroom tile or at least regrout ALL tile. Dirty grout is yucky. If your tub is scratched or worn have it re-porcelained or refinished. It's not expensive and can be the difference bt the bathroom being a project or something the buyer can work with. No carpet in the bathroom...that's gross.
Updated kitchen brings the biggest return.
If you have a backyard, stage it. Make it look like an "extended living area".
A fresh coat of paint makes the house seem...well..fresh.
If the house is not going to be fully updated and move in ready, keep projects to one area. Like one bathroom needs refinishing or something like that. That way it looks like there are less projects to do.
ETA: Lighting fixtures are affordable and make a HUGE difference in the updating and atmosphere of a home.
Middle picture: Put the bed angled in the corner and dresser under the small window?
A kids play area is ok as long as the toys are staged, neatly stored and put up.
The kitchen is very small galley style. We updated the hardware and put in new flooring (used to be checkerboard). Will have new counters and sink.
I may have missed if you are listing with a realtor, but they can call for showings through out the day. Before leaving the house in the morning, I made sure the sinks and counters were wiped down, no trash in the trashcans, and turned on all the lights. Good luck and hopefully it sells quickly.
We sold our house last year, and here are some of the things our realtor had us do. We cleaned up the back yard, had some landscaping done, new kitchen counter, new carpet, and new flooring. We also had a new furnace put in because the other one was going bad. We had our water heater inspected. Because we had dogs, we had the carpet cleaned. We moved almost all of our stuff into storage, or gave it to goodwill. By the time we closed on the house, our entire house was packed into a 10x8 storage unit. We decided to have all the important stuff inspected, that way there was no surprise issues coming up during the home inspection. Our buyers basically got a brand new house.
At the time when we where looking for new house, here are some of things in one house that really turned us off. They had laundry all over the place down stairs. I'm talking bra's and underwear all over the back of the couch. Tiling was not finished, a breast pump was sitting out on the dining room table, trash wasn't taken out, crap all over the floor, and the house stunk. We stayed about 10 minutes, left, and never gave the house a second thought. We walked outside and the driveway was cracked, and their where 2 steps on the porch that where broken.
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