Local Selling Tips
When it’s time to sell, you must be confident that every element of negotiating the best terms and the highest price has been set before your home is even listed. The real estate market in Southern California is volatile, especially lately, and it takes an experienced professional to move your house quickly, professionally, and profitably. Need to know what your house is worth? Contact me at AnnDowningRealEstate@gmail.com When you’ve decided to sell, I will be your advocate, your guide, and your fierce negotiator. I will work hard to make yours a great sale. I look forward to helping you!
Here are some tips.
Selling your home: Where to begin?
First Impressions matter. Remember what first attracted you to your house when you bought it? What excited you about its most appealing features?
Now that you're selling your home, you'll need to look at it as if you were buying it all over again. A spruced-up house makes a great first impression on potential buyers. An attractive property grabs their attention and makes them excited about finding a house that looks and feels well-cared for. Because buyers know they’ll encounter fewer problems if they buy it, your house becomes more appealing and stands out from the competition.
So if you prepare your home correctly, you’ll save time selling it when it’s on the market. A good first impression makes an impact on a number of levels. It’s not just the way your house looks to potential buyers, but how it feels and smells to them, how their friends and family will react, how they imagine it would be to live there.
With simple improvements throughout your house, you can grab the attention of potential buyers and help them see why your house is right for them. Prior to selling there are several tips I give to sellers. You have to spend money to make money!
- Clean up the yards. First impressions are important. The "curb appeal" will stick in the buyer's mind. Spend $200 for plants and colorful flowers at the local home improvement warehouse store, spend a day cleaning up the yard and another day planting the new flowers/plants and fixing up last minute details.
- Paint. Paint is inexpensive. On average it costs $25 a gallon to cover up years of kids fingerprints or dullness.
- Pack up all trinkets and most family photos. De-clutter your home. Rent a storage area or put the boxes in your garage. The buyer wants to see themself living there and a depersonalized space will sell quicker than one with trinkets everywhere.
- Flooring not so nice? Can you afford a quick fix?
I have a lot of tips to help you stage your house so it can sell.
Contact me today. I would love to help you.
AnnDowningRealEstate@gmail.com
(951) 733-2486
