Stating the Facts About Real Estate

If you have a single-family home that you want to put on the market and sell quickly for whatever reason, there are steps you can take that can help speed up the selling process. Preparing and staging your home property, along with using an aggressive marketing approach, can help quickly move your home off the market.

Key #1: Take Care of Quick Repairs

Go around your home and make a list of all the visible quick repairs a home needs. When potential buyers look at your home, they don't want to see a list of things that they need to take care of, they want to see a home they can envision moving and settling into.

Quick repairs include things such as fixing a faucet that leaks by changing out the hardware or tightening up a door handle that is loose. Quick repairs also include things like patching up holes and fixing any area with damaged paint.

Key #2: Perform Quick Upgrades

A few quick upgrades to your home can really make your house stand out and don't require a big time or money investment on your part. You can repaint any rooms in your home that have an older paint job or that are painted in a more personal color, like turquoise or red. Paint your walls warm, neutral colors that will allow potential buyers to really imagine themselves in your space.

You can also swap out old hardware on your kitchen and bathroom cabinets. Putting new hardware on all your cabinets doesn't cost that much per cabinet and can help make your bathroom and kitchen feel newer, especially if the current hardware is decades old.

Key #3: Clean Up the Yard

Third, the outside of your home matters. Pressure wash your house, driveway, and patio. Keep your yard cut while your home is on the market. Get rid of any junk that you have sitting around the outside of your home. Consider planting flowers in your front yard or adding planters with flowers next to the front door. The dash of extra color can really help entice buyers, especially if your home is for sale during the spring or summer months.

Key #4: Stage Your Home

Finally, hire someone to stage your home. When you look at your home, you look through the eyes of love that have spent hundreds of hours in your home. When a professional stager looks at your home, they will arrange it in a way that is appealing to buyers who are looking to creating their own homes. What a buyer likes and what you like can be vastly different. You can help the stager by decluttering and going through your home before they arrive and by renting a storage unit to put items and furniture in that the stager wants to move.

If you want to sell your home quickly, you need to make your home picture perfect. Do quick repairs that are easy to do but would stand out as a negative to a potential buyer, like a leaky faucet. Do easy upgrades, like repainting and upgrading cabinet hardware. Clean up your yard and allow a professional stage to stage your home. Making your home look more visually appealing should help speed up the selling process.

You can learn more about good techniques or find your new home by looking at single-family homes for sale in your area.