Home buying on the other hand can be overwhelming. While every homebuyer is different, there are some common interests among those that are looking for a new home. Every buyer wants a quality home that they will be proud to live in and won’t fall apart within months or even years. Most homebuyers are focusing not only on quality in the way of square footage, but also quality, as that is what gives a home its worth.
A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSIONS MAXIMIZES THE SALE
Professionals say that when selling a home, first impressions are vital.
What kind of first impression does your home make to prospective buyers?
What are potential buyers looking for, how do you present that quality home feel?
Use these 10 HOT Home Seller Tips to get your home ready to sell fast, even in a slow market!
1. Almost all home searches today begin on the Internet. With just a few clicks of the mouse, home buyers can search through hundreds of online listings, view virtual tours, and sort through dozens of photographs and aerial shots of neighborhoods and homes.
A lot of people talk themselves into falling in love with something before they've really looked at it.
TIP:
Show it Off Right: Hire a professional virtual tour photographer service to showcase your home. It will get 87% more views than homes without a virtual tour!
2. One of the very first things a home buyer will look at is the outside of the house from the curb. Does your home have curb appeal? That’s going to give the home buyer a great clue as to how the rest of the house has been maintained.
TIPS:
Curb Appeal Sells: Plant colorful flowers, keep a kempt lawn, prune trees and weed the garden.
Clean the Outside: Clear out the rain gutters and power wash the siding. A fresh coat of paint on your front door does wonder’s too!
3. Does the exterior show signs of water damage? Savvy buyers look at the roof, which can be expensive to replace. They’ll check the siding too, first they’ll check out the paint: looking for peeling, bubbling or stain damage. Does it look worn or thin? Are there sections of the siding that look damaged? Are there holes or loose pieces?
TIP:
Make Repairs: Have a local handyman make repairs, patch any holes, and fix leaky faucets
4. Houses with a cluttered unappealing look can stay on the market for months and years without being sold. One of the most common elements of home staging is to 'de-clutter' any rooms which are unorganized and untidy allowing a potential buyer to visualize how they would like to utilize the space.
TIP:
De-Clutter: Disorganized storage space instantly makes the home smaller. Pack anything you don’t need.
5. As decorative tastes are very personal some people like to use bold strong colors of paint on their walls. This can be very off-putting to a potential buyer, in which case it is often suggested to repaint using a neutral color scheme to allow the buyer to view the room as a blank canvas.
TIP:
Tone it Down: Paint over any bold colors with neutral ones.
6. Vitally important that nothing distracts the viewer from the big picture. After you live in a space for a while, you often don’t see your own clutter or distractions. Problem is that someone who sees it for the first time often has a tough time seeing anything BUT the clutter and distractions.
TIP:
De-Personalize: Pack up family photographs. Buyers want to envision themselves in the home, don’t distract them.
Here are just a few of the things that can be visual stumbling blocks:
Personal photographs
Office clutter
Kitchen counter catch-all’s
Large or unique decorative pieces
Refrigerator magnets and art
7. Make the House Sparkle – Clean everything! When a house is for sale, the goal is to make it as attractive as possible to potential buyers. The most cost-efficient way to spruce up the home is to clean it thorough. Buyers react worse to dirt than clutter. They figure, you may be a messy person, but if you’ve let the cleaning go, it’s possible that you’ve let other, more serious, maintenance issues go as well.
TIPS:
Make the Shiny Stuff Shiny: Hire a house cleaning service to set the bar for you and then shine everything with a reflective surface.
Clean the Carpets: Hire a professional to clean all of the carpet in your home every three-to-six months until the home sells.
Eliminate Odors: Place pet items in the garage and spray air neutralizer throughout the home.
Are you looking your best both online and off?
Your 10 Hot Tips are Compliments of:
Tours D’ Force
Your Southern Michigan’s Property Marketing Expert
Home Buyers who used virtual tours as a significant portion of their home-buying experience spent an average of two weeks with a Realtor.® Those who did not use the internet, spent an average of seven weeks looking for their home. (2008 RIS Media)
84% of all buyers and 87% of first time buyers use the internet as an information resource during their search for a home. In the 25-44 age group this number jumped to 91% of all home buyers.
As of August 2006, over half of American adult internet users (61%) have taken virtual
tours online and on a typical day, more than six million people are taking virtual
tours in cyberspace. (2006 Pew Study)
According to Realtor.com 54% of home buyers who are searching for their next
home will not even look at a home unless there is a featured tour.
Hal Holubik
ToursDForce
Southern Michigan Real Estate
Lenawee County Virtual Tour Company
Order your virtual tour Today!
P: 517.486.4209
E: hal@toursdforce.com
W: toursdforce.com
Lenawee County Virtual Tours are here!! More people choose www.toursdforce.com virtual tour company than any other virtual tour provider on the market. We encourage you to research the 360 virtual tour industry before making a decision. We are by far the most established virtual tour company in the industry. Our virtual tour customers and their clients get only the best and most experienced advice and help from our staff. Thank you and enjoy our virtual tours.
Home Buyers who used virtual tours as a significant portion of their home-buying experience spent an average of two weeks with a Realtor.® Those who did not use the internet, spent an average of seven weeks looking for their home. (2008 RIS Media)
84% of all buyers and 87% of first time buyers use the internet as an information resource during their search for a home. In the 25-44 age group this number jumped to 91% of all home buyers.
As of August 2006, over half of American adult internet users (61%) have taken virtual
tours online and on a typical day, more than six million people are taking virtual
tours in cyberspace. (2006 Pew Study)
According to Realtor.com 54% of home buyers who are searching for their next
home will not even look at a home unless there is a featured tour.
Hal Holubik
ToursDForce
Southern Michigan Real Estate
Lenawee County Virtual Tour Company
Order your virtual tour Today!
P: 517.486.4209
E: hal@toursdforce.com
W: toursdforce.com
Lenawee County Virtual Tours are here!! More people choose www.toursdforce.com virtual tour company than any other virtual tour provider on the market. We encourage you to research the 360 virtual tour industry before making a decision. We are by far the most established virtual tour company in the industry. Our virtual tour customers and their clients get only the best and most experienced advice and help from our staff. Thank you and enjoy our virtual tours.
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