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5 Ways to Prepare your Home for Sale

Preparing your home for sale is a necessary part of the process. This is a detail that can make the difference between selling the house and watching it stay on the market. Having a property for sale is already a big deal, and with these five tips below, you can prepare to sell your home on the property market smoothly.

Get Cleaning

A clean house will sell faster than a messy one, and that includes clutter – not just dirt! Making a good impression with buyers is essential, and the fastest way to get that impression imprinted in their minds is with a clean house.

Impersonal Is Key

Take out all the personal clutter. Photos and mementos that are personal to you should be taken out of the house when you show prospective buyers around. They need to envision THEIR home; not yours.

Touch Up

If you need to repaint the walls, the time to do it is now before you start bringing buyers through. Touching up the paint can make the whole place look much fresher, which will help in your sale.

Declutter

We mentioned cleaning and decluttering, but you need to empty your house of as much clutter as possible before viewings. Buyers need to see it as their house and the potential it has; which means the piles of laundry need to disappear!

Open The Space

Temporarily remove some of the overflow furniture from your house so that you create an emptier, more open space. This will make it look bigger!

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