Preparing your home for sale

The Golden Top 5 To-Do List: Preparing your home for sale.

Learn how to properly prepare your home for sale and expedite the buyers to place a decent bid on your property. When preparing your home for house inspections to sell your home, it doesn’t have to be difficult and stressful.

Here are our Top Five (5) To-Do’s to prepare your home for sale.

Not sure where to begin? Here are our Top Five (5) List of To-Do’s to prepare your home:

1. Remove the clutter

When living in your home over the years, you may find that you have collected several items or some positions may not be in the right place. Your objective is to reduce the clutter and make your home as spacious as possible.

Closets – make sure you have half-empty closets.
- Storage is something every buyer is looking for and can never have enough. Remove as much as you can from your closets and organise the remaining items neatly in the closets.
- Serious buyers will unfortunately snoop, mainly to see if they can fit their items in available closets and storage
Old and Junk Items – Noting should be laying around.
- Organise items used and remove the unused. Over time you may have collected items just in-case one day you may need them. however, they just sit there collecting dust.
- Remove any item that does not have a meaningful use and remove any clutter. For example, old bbq’s, bikes, fridges, unused gardening tools etc…
- Your objective is to remove anything that hasn’t been used or will not be used. This could be an opportunity to have a sale and obtain some extra cash

2. The kitchen comes first

Prospective home buyers will look at the kitchen first, and there is an old saying that is commonly known in the industry, “You’re not selling your house, you’re selling your kitchen”, That’s how important presenting your kitchen is.

Consider the following when preparing your kitchen:

Clean and tidy Kitchen.
- Remove any clutter, make sure everything is clean, practical and tidy
Replacing old countertops
- You don’t have to spend a fortune, your objective is to modernise the space and make the counter space natural, modern and spacious
Old Appliances
- Your objective in the kitchen is to make everything clean and functional. All your appliance needs to appear working, clean, and operational.
- Old appliances may reduce the value of your home by a few thousand dollars, and to replace them may cost you half of what prospects home buyers may expect
Cabinets
- Make sure to clean your cabinets. If necessary, consider painting the cabinets to natural fresh colours

3. Depersonalise your home

One of the most important things to do when selling your home is to depersonalise your home. Take the home out of your house.

Remove the more personal stuff in your home, this may include personal family photos, memorabilia, collectables, and or personal keepsakes.
Try to make your home a canvas for prospective buyers to imagine how they would live their lives in your home

4. First Impressions, always be ready to show

Your home needs to be “show-ready” at all times, both within the house and the exterior of the home as well. Most buyers have already purchased your home before they walked through the door. You need to make sure they feel welcome, feel warm and safe as they approach your home.

Consider planting fresh colourful flowers, tidy up the landscaping and keep a bright appears externally.
Internally, use music and fresh smells to keep visitors feeling homely.
Remove any dog food, or cat food. Remove anything that may not smell right, not everyone is a dog or a car lover

5. Finally, get to know your Real Estate Agent

Hiring the wrong agent to represent you and your family home may be a secrete sale killer. Make sure you have the right person for the job, and who is informed of your area and your needs.

You can ask multiple agents to provide you with a quote and pick the best one that is right for you. Don’t forget price or cost isn’t everything. Because the right agent may bring in that golden price which is just right for you

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