Tips for showing your home

Showing Your House to Home Buyers

This is it. The icing to your cake. The moment you’ve been waiting for ever since you decide to sell your home. The price is right, the marketing is going well, and you watch with enthusiasm as the response started coming: the home buyers are coming!

It’s now time to tackle the house showings. How are you preparing for it? You’ve inspected, checked and cleaned your house thoroughly. You made sure everything’s in place, or if they’re not, in the most ideal place to be shown. Showings are, after all, the chance to impress the home buyers by flaunting everything your house has.

You want the home buyer’s full attention on your house.  Make sure the house is well aired and lighted by opening windows and positioning all window coverings to show maximum sunlight. A dark house can create the effect of gloom and depression; not exactly the impression you want your home to give.

Pack or put away as many personal items as possible. You want the house to showcase itself and lots of knicknacks can create a cluttered feel.

Clean, clean, clean!! small things like cleaning baseboards, or fresh interior paint can do wonders to the over all feel of a property, clean clear windows can allow maximum light into the home, and if you don't want to pay for a staging service, try and look at how model homes are staged and mimic that with your own home.

Make sure the air inside your house is in good, clean condition. Some homeowners will bake cookies to keep that welcoming scent in the air, but if you’re not keen on taking it that far, just be sure to wipe out any odors with clean fresh scents opposed to heavy flowery ones.

Last of all, when agents bring buyers by your home, leave the house and let the agents do their job. Home buyers tend to feel like intruders when they’re checking details of a house with its owners watching.

Talk with your agent to find out what additional ideas they can give you to help your individual home show the absolute best!