Preparing Your Home For Sale

Preparing your home for sale can be easy and enjoyable if you follow these few simple tips. Firstly, remove clutter around the house, by placing bulky items such as old machinery or work tools into temporary storage.

Let your house breathe and open areas up for the buyers to see and appreciate the potential the house can offer. Sort out those annoying repairs that seem to be continually brushed aside because they are either out of your expertise or so minor that you think buyers will ignore them.

This is not the case and in fact those little repairs can be more costly than you think because most buyers will deduct a lot more value from the asking price because they want more than the actual repair costs to compensate them for their time and the inconvenience of arranging trades to quote and then managing the repair themselves.

So it will be much cheaper and less inconvenient for any repairs to be completed by the current owner before the sale. Remove rubbish and mow the lawns, tidy up trees and shrubs. Fix any leaking taps and paint those areas that are obviously in need of painting.

Fix the noisy fans, replace faulty light globes, and clean carpets, floors, and walls. Finally, walk around your house and pretend you’re a very fussy buyer wanting to find faults to justify a price reduction.

Write down things that you find needing repair or replacement then read your notes, you will be amazed at how many little items can be found, but don’t worry too much because all these small things can be easily completed by a suitable handyman or qualified trades person in time provided you act prior to placing the house on the market.

All houses have some repair or maintenance issues and buyers know this because they are looking at used homes constantly and probably have seen more homes on display than you in fact. So, use some empathy and think as a buyer and you will undoubtedly find all those annoying little repairs and once, they are fixed you can confidently hold your price and feel satisfied.