5 Weekend Projects to Help Your Home Sell Fast!
Selling your house is hard enough with recent mortgage conditions the way they are today. As a homeowner with basic skills, you can spend a weekend and make some minor changes to your home, to assure your house not only sells, you can sell your house fast! In this article, we want to look at 5 simple home improvement projects that will make the biggest impact to your home.
Maintain Your Landscaping for Better Curb Appeal
The MOST important step in getting a buyer into your home, is getting them OUT of the car! Lets face it, most smart home buyers do a good bit of research on the Internet today. In doing so, they have the ability to find and drive by a long list of homes well in advance of talking to a Realtor to get inside. The outside of your home is the first thing anyone sees, and we all know how first impressions are, right?
Spend an afternoon planting flowers around your mailbox, or go to the home improvement store and get mulch or bark chips to spread in your planters. Make sure your lawn is always cut nicely, and the yard free of debris or clutter.
Cleaning Carpets & Deodorizing
Nothing turns a prospective buyer away faster, than dirty stained carpets and foul odors. You can have your carpets professionally steam cleaned professionally for less than a couple hundred dollars! While they are cleaning the rugs, most local service companies will add a deodorizer, free of charge!
De-Clutter The Living Area and Utility Rooms
Many smart Realtors have one basic tip for de-cluttering: remove everything but the absolute essentials to live in the home! Inside the bedrooms, take out all but one dresser. In your living room, leave the TV, a couch and a chair and 1 table, everything else should go! By de-cluttering your living areas, you enable the buyer to better visualize the room with their own furniture in it! They can see the walls and window layouts better, etc.
Decluttering in the utility closets or rooms is going to allow easy viewing of the most important mechanical aspects of the home. By showing the prospect that you properly care for and maintain the homes heating or gas furnace system, you are going to instill confidence the rest of the home is properly maintained as well.
Interior Paint in Main Living Area
Even if you can’t paint the entire interior of your home before selling, you should paint the main living areas. Living room, family rooms, kitchen, etc. These are going to be the areas prospective buyers stop to talk with you or the realtor and they should be the freshest and most inviting.
Creative Staging in the Master Bedroom
The last and most likely area that many people miss great opportunity, is creative staging in the Master Bedroom. The master bedroom is the most personal room in the home, and you should make it as inviting as you can! Spending just a little bit of money on a new comforter for the bed, new window dressings and small things like candles in the master bathroom etc, can make the prospective buyer feel more at home in the room.