Whether you’re selling your home in a hot or down market, there’s no changing the fact that putting your home up for sale can be a stressful affair. For starters, staging your home for buyers week after week can be tiring, not to mention expensive. You also have to deal with the prospect of leaving your home at a moment’s notice, which becomes exponentially more difficult if you have kids and pets.
But presenting your home to potential buyers need not be so stressful or expensive. Follow these tried and tested methods to rack up offers near or even above your selling price.
1. Declutter Your Home By Renting a Storage Unit
Cleaning up the clutter in your home is one of the simplest things you can do to stage your home, but it also raises the question of where to stash all your things. The last thing you want to do is stuff everything in cupboards and closets, because buyers will naturally want to look at your home’s storage options, and a stuffed closet doesn’t look the least bit appealing.
Instead, consider renting a storage unit in your city to keep things you won’t need while listing your home. The rule of thumb is to pack away the things you don’t use every day—think rarely-used kitchen appliances, seasonal clothes, holiday décor, and garage equipment among others.
2. Promote Your Property on Social Media
The right real estate agent can be a godsend, but you also have to understand that you’re not the only client they’re dealing with. As such, it’s important to do whatever you can to promote your home, whether it’s by enlisting the help of friends and family members, or by using your personal social media accounts to hit up local real estate pages and groups.
The latter can be an especially effective option for selling your home, even in down markets, provided you have great pictures and a fair asking price, of course.
3. Make Your Home as Neutral as Possible
When staging your home, it helps to make it as neutral as possible. By that, we mean making it as less personalized as you can.
For example, you can take down family photos from your walls to help potential buyers to imagine what it would be like to live in your home. Doing so with photos showing your life’s personal moments around is arguably harder to do.
4. Invest in Small Home Upgrades
Making home improvements to your home prior to putting it on sale can be tricky because some projects don’t actually increase its value. For example, a swimming pool and hot tub in your home might make it more exciting, but these additions come with ‘hidden’ maintenance costs that buyers won’t be keen on shouldering.
Instead, focus on small upgrades, particularly on the parts of your home that get the most use, like the kitchen and bathroom.
- Consider upgrading your old appliances to a new mid-range stainless steel suite.
- Add new mirrors to your bathroom.
- Replace old shower fixtures with calcium build up.
- Replace your old shower curtain with a new one.
- Add hand towels to your kitchen and bathroom.
- Replace loose or broken cabinet hardware.
If these tips don’t help in selling your home as quickly as you would like, sell it to someone willing to buy property in any condition instead. At Blue Hen Homebuyers, we buy homes regardless of their condition. Contact our offices today at 910-802-2222 to learn more about how we can help you.