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PREPARING YOUR HOME - (Continued)
Follow these simple, yet critical steps to enhance your home’s perceived value. Keep up with this checklist
to ensure that you’ll be ready for a viewing appointment at a moment’s notice.
SIMPLIFY. REPAIR.
A tidy, organized home is infinitely more Small repairs can bring big dollars. Don’t let
appealing than one littered with the everyday these easy fixes stand in the way of a sale.
clutter that tends to accumulate.
• Purify water damage, mildew, or other
deterioration
• Clear counter tops file any loose papers or
mail piles, and put toys and miscellaneous • Spackle and paint over any holes or cracks in
objects away ceilings and walls
• Mend any broken kitchen cabinets or other
• Thin wardrobes to make closets look more door hinges
spacious
• Replace moldy or torn shower curtains
• Make the beds, clear the sink of dishes, and • Repair any broken window panes or mirrors
empty all wastebaskets
• Reinforce peeling wallpaper and touch up
• Remember that people open closets and any chipped paint
medicine cabinet doors • Restore worn carpets and polish any
• If necessary, bring in a professional crew to scratched wood floors
deep clean rugs and furniture • Patch up chipped grout and moldy caulk
• Replace doorbells that don’t work
IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS.
These low-effort extras go a long way.
• Place fresh flowers, changed regularly, or • Handwrite a note of welcome to your
plants in one or two key locations home on beautiful stationary to leave on an
PREPARING • Bring in additional lighting to brighten your • entryway table
Leave cookies out for the broker and buyer
home and make it feel larger
YOUR HOME • Maintain gleaming bathroom fixtures and • Make sure that windows are clean and
streakfree–leave them open, weather
kitchen appliances
• Integrate fresh scents from baking bread, permitting
A Comprehensive Marketing Strategy Extends Beyond Just Print boiling cinnamon, or potpourri • Tidy pet areas and provide a crate–not
Ads And Online Presence. The Impression A Home Makes In everyone is comfortable with animals
Person Is Equally, If Not More Important.
