With our market slowly coming out of its slump, it is time for you to start thinking about the preparation of your home if you wish to sell it without a short sale or foreclosure.
Hire an Agent.
Now is not the time to try to sell your home on your own. You need a real estate professional like Just Right Realty Company to help you price your house, do open houses; we hire the professional photographer for you and also for us for brochures.
Curb Appeal.
Make sure your house looks excellent from the outside as well as from the inside. Drive by your home a couple of times, stop and view it to make sure it looks excellent from the curb. Landscaping is a very cost effective way of making a property look fantastic from the curb. If your buyer does not like the looks of it from the outside, they will not even enter the inside to take a look at it.
Clean the Area.
One of the easiest ways to have your house looking great from the curb is to haul away all of the trash. The trash also includes any material left over from anything you built or whatever is lying around your yard. Get rid of all of the old swings etc. that you are not going to be using. In this same vein, get rid of all of the excess clutter in your house and make it as appealing as possible. A clean house sells.
Fix everything.
You need to repair any broken joints or cracks in the walls. If there is anything that needs fixing, be sure you have a handyman or you; yourself fix all that is necessary to be fixed. Painting is one of the least expensive and best ways to make a house look bright and shiny. If you are an excellent painter, you can do it yourself but if you are like me, it would be important for you to hire a professional to paint your home. Painting the interior will dramatically increase the value of your home and if the exterior needs it, it will be necessary to paint that as well.
Home Staging.
Last, but not least, maybe it’s time to hire a professional stager to really increase the value of your home. It is hard for the individual who has lived in that house a while to see it and they sometimes need a stranger to help them see it. This stranger should be a professional re-stager.
Be sure to hire professionally licensed contractors etc. to help you make your home stand out. You can check with the Better Business Bureau and call references before hiring anyone to do any of the work in your home. Just Right Realty Company has a list of these contractors that we have used before and can help you with the hiring of anyone you need. We have an “in house” handyman who we guarantee his work and can get him to your property at the time you want him there. The timing certainly seems to be a factor in Southwest Florida. While you are getting the work done and re-staging the home for the sale, we can take a ride out on Revelry to catch fish, dive, or just have a great day of a beautiful boat ride.
Have a great day in Paradise!
Jerry Ruzicka, Broker
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