Thursday, April 30, 2009

Home Selling Tips – House Selling Tips for Open Houses

Home Selling Tips 1 - If you are trying to sell your house, there are some things that you can do to help make sure that your home makes the best appearance possible for your visitors. The very first and foremost task is to give your home a good, thorough cleaning. 

Home Selling Tips 2 - The sense of smell is very powerful, and it can have a direct effect on our emotions, both for good and bad. Identify foul odors in your home, and then get rid of them as soon as possible. 

Home Selling Tips 3 - If some of your rooms are small, remove any nonessential furniture to help them appear larger and more inviting. 

Home Selling Tips 4 - Giving your walls a fresh coat of paint is a very cheap and easy way to brighten up the appearance of almost any home quickly and easily. 

Home Selling Tips 5 - Other ways to liven up the appearance of your home and set a warm, inviting atmosphere is to bring in flowers and place them around in strategic locations. 

Home Selling Tips 6 - The use of music can be very beneficial too as long as it is kept quietly playing in the background. Classical or jazz music are good choices that appeal to a lot of people. 

Home Selling Tips 7 - Clean up the important rooms such as the front hallway where people first walk in, the kitchen, the master bedroom, and all the washrooms. Gleaming tiles, clear windows, and polished hardwood make a great impression. 

Home Selling Tips 8 - Make sure leaky faucets are fixed, squeaky spots on floors are taken care of, and walls should be freshly painted or super clean. 

Home Selling Tips 9 - Put away the family photos and take down the kids pictures from the fridge. You want buyers to feel like it is their home, not yours. 

Home Selling Tips 10 - Make sure your home smells inviting - a subtle fragrance from a pleasant air freshener will do wonders. Buyers notice all the little details, so you should too.

3 comments:

  1. Aside from these tips, I also believe that being accommodating and fostering friendly ties with our prospective clients can be very helpful. We can ask for their suggestions on what angles of the house need further improvement, or what kind of design suits their taste. By doing this, we can have an indirect form of survey about the preferences of buyers in choosing a house.


    Brendan Amorose

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  2. In other words, the house should look promising to the prospective buyers out there. They do not plan to live in your house the way it is now. They've got to have that feeling that they can "own" it by making future improvements, and they can't do that with the unnecessary furniture, boxes, and other stuff cluttered around.

    Kelly Ciancio

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  3. These are great tips, especially about the smell! This time of the year I always like to fill the home with the smell of pine and fresh baked cookies!

    Staging in Des Moines

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