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Preparing Your Home for Showing. Do you know how to prepare your home for a showing? Watch below for tips and tricks on how to best present your home for sale.
So when you get an appointment to show your house, leave your home 10 to 15 minutes before the buyer and their agent are supposed to be there. It is better if you don’t see the buyer and their agent. Allow the communication to go between the agents and don’t answer questions from the buyer or another agent if they ask you because it could put you at a big disadvantage when negotiating later.
You also do not want to be there for the showings. The buyer needs to be free to talk to their agent without worrying about what you will think. This is a good thing because if they’re making a comment about the paint or a sink they don’t like, the agent knows about it and can talk with the buyer about what it would take to fix whatever the buyer doesn’t like.
Paint is cheap and sometimes all a buyer needs is the reminder that paint is a great way to make the house theirs.
Take your dogs with you if possible, if you can during the showing, especially if they bark when they see strangers. It is super-hard to stay in a house long enough to look at everything when the dogs are barking. Also, if it’s wet outside, that wet dog smell in your house is not the best smell when you’re trying to sell your home.
Another smell that isn’t normally good is food. If a seller cooks something that smells up the house, even if it’s something delicious and the smell is still lingering when the buyer looks at the house, it can be a big turnoff. So please don’t put food in your Crock-Pot right before an open house. One thing you could do before an open house or a showing is to bake cookies.
Turn on every light in your home, even when it’s daylight. Open all the curtains and blinds. This makes your home appear brighter, larger, more open, and way more inviting.
Some of this goes without saying but when I show homes, I see this fairly often so I thought I better mention it. Pick up the laundry from the floor, close the toilet seat, flush and put the lid down, take out the trash, mow the grass, shovel the snow off the walks if there is some. You want the buyer to walk in and feel like everything is light, bright, clean, and easy to love.
Remember, we want to set you up for selling success.