Pull the weeds, paint the living room and take awesome pictures

Counting the helpful hints to assist in selling your home

By Mark Schadenberg

Could you imagine creating a list of 100 helpful hints in assisting you to sell your home.

The accompanying story is not written by myself and is not 100 percent endorsed by yours truly either, but it does indicate a long thorough checklist of items to possibly help sell your home.

First and foremost – an accurate asking price, in my opinion.

First impressions are important, so weed, edge, water and cut your lawn.

Modest improvements to a kitchen like installing a ceramic backsplash or new hardware on the cabinets can be inexpensive.

Internet marketing and maximum exposure on www.realtor.ca is paramount, and that ad better best reflect your home with several top-notch photos. I consider myself a reasonable photographer (I was sports editor at The Sentinel-Review from 92-99) and I own 2 digital cameras, but I often bring in Sue Hannah of Creative Virtual Tours to capture photos.

Speaking of pictures . . . take lots of pictures. Be sure to remove lots of pictures from the walls if you have too many diplomas, family portraits and still have the '67 Leafs on your recroom wall.  If this creates a large number of nail holes in your hallway, then likely it's time to plug a few holes and paint.

I don't like to see too many candles or plug-in air fresheners as home viewers start to think that we are trying to disguise the real or actual aroma of a home. A clean house will smell like a clean house, but that also means you can not smoke indoors or cook foods that have a lingering odour. Let the fan on your furnace run for most of the day as it keeps the air flowing, resulting in no staleness.

Don't display an over-abundance of breakable family heirlooms.

The list in the story below is quite long and at times repetitive, but there's a ton of good advice.

This might sound like an obvious statement, but the prospects viewing your home do not know what it looked like two months before the 'for sale' sign was hammered into the ground, so a spotless well-organized house is the way to go.

LINK:

http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/09/19/how-to-sell-your-house/

Mark Schadenberg, Sales Representative

Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)

Royal LePage Triland Realty

757 Dundas St, Woodstock

(519) 537-1553, cell or text

Email: mschadenberg@rogers.com

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