How To Get Your Spokane Home Ready for Potential Buyers
If you’re planning on selling a home in Spokane, Washington, and want to ensure that it will attract potential buyers, there are some things that you can do to make it more marketable and get the highest return. Believe it or not, there are some relatively quick, temporary, and affordable changes you can make that can transform your home, make it more buyer-friendly, and help you get the best value for a quick and profitable sale. Let’s look at these simple fixes.
Deep Clean
A deep cleaning may seem like simple advice, but deep cleaning significantly affects how your home looks and how potential buyers view it. This is not just a dust-and-vacuum job. Details like scrubbing down the tile and floors in bathrooms and kitchens, wiping and touching up the baseboards, cleaning fan blades, and deep cleaning any rugs or carpets will make your home look, feel, and smell cleaner. It will make your home appeal to buyers more like a new home than an older “used” home.
Deep cleaning never goes unnoticed by potential buyers. They sense that if you care enough about their home to present it in its best light, you are more likely to have taken care of the home overall in terms of maintenance and upkeep, and that impression matters.
Deep cleaning isn’t expensive, it just takes time and effort. And, if you don’t have the time or the will to do the cleaning yourself, you can always outsource the job to a professional cleaning company.
Remove Personal Items
Personal items come in all sizes, shapes, and forms, but you’ll want to temporarily remove them from your home before showing it. Family photos, collectibles, awards and certificates, and even pictures on the refrigerator make a space appear cluttered, overly personalized, and unorganized to a buyer.
These items can also detract from certain aspects of the home that you may want to highlight, like wall space, trim details, and the size of the space in general. Before showing your home, store pictures and collectibles, and keep personal items out of sight. Even if you don’t like the “impersonal” look yourself, a look that creates a neutral, clean space will help potential buyers focus less on who currently lives in the home and instead picture themselves living there.
Declutter
Too much of anything in a home constitutes clutter, at least when it comes to getting ready to show your home. Too much furniture, too many decor items, and just “stuff,” in general, can make a space feel small and cramped, causing buyers to miss seeing its full potential.
If you’re unsure how to declutter or which large furniture items may need to temporarily reside in storage until you sell your home, enlist the help of an experienced real estate agent who can give you the advice you need.
Refresh Your Landscaping
First impressions count for a lot. When it comes to selling a home, this has two implications. First, when your home has curb appeal to a potential buyer, that potential buyer will start out with a favorable disposition toward liking the home. Second, the potential buyer will also think: “If I buy this home, other people will also be impressed with how nice it looks.” Whether they admit it or not, everyone wants to live in a home that others admire, and those “pride points” have emotional sway.
There are numerous things that can make a home and yard more appealing. Take a good look at what you have, look through some home magazines, and start making changes. It is amazing what transformations you can accomplish that can compliment your home’s exterior: prune trees and shrubs, plant flowers, refresh mulch in flower beds, add ornamental grass, or put colorful pots of flowers on the porch to compliment your home’s exterior. You don’t need a large front yard. In fact, it is often easier to make a dramatic transformation if your yard is smaller because each positive change has a larger impact.
If you’re preparing to sell your Spokane, Washington, home but don’t know how or when to list it or what you need to do to prepare it, the professionals at The Legacy Group can help. Contact us today at the Legacy Group Network to learn more about our team and how we can help you walk through the selling process from start to finish.