How can you get a buyer interested in purchasing your house? Impression is the keyword. You just need to get your house ready to sell by doing some preparation. Get it inspected by a professional if you want to pay a little effort for maximum results, or if you don’t want to spend much money by paying a professional you can do it by yourself.
So how do you make a buyer impressed with your house? These are the steps for getting your house ready to sell to a buyer.
Beautify your exterior
The goal is to make your exterior look pretty and fresh to impress your buyer. Obviously, the exterior becomes the first impression to anyone coming to view your house. There are two sensory organs of a buyer you must impress. Those are the eyes and the nose. Do this by smartening up your house exterior, making it looked pretty and freshening it up.
The steps you can do are:
– Get the grass, trees, flowers, and plants tidy and fresh by mowing and watering it.
– Clean up the curb and entering path and put the potted flower in the sides.
– Freshen up the smells by using scented potpourri, but make sure that the smells are not overwhelming.
– Clean up all windows and entering doors.
– Get rid of equipment – put it out of sights.
– Paint the walls if necessary.
Make the Interior Cosy
After buyer has got an impression from your house exterior, do some simple things to get the cosiness in your house interior. The aim is to make a buyer feel at home when entering your house.
These are the steps:
– Clean up the tile floors; scrub it if there are some bad spots.
– Get rid of spider webs from your ceilings and walls.
– Wash the carpets with a fragrant soap.
– Get your furniture placed tidily and remove unnecessary pieces.
– Brush the closets.
– Clean the garage, basement, and attic.
– Get the windows opened and clean, it will bring freshness to your house inside.
– If you have pets, bath them.
– Put some fresh fragrance in air conditioner.
Repairing and Replacing
Some repair and replacement may be necessary too, if there is some broken furniture, equipment, or appliances.
Just check out:
– broken or missing door
– cabinet handles
– ceilings
– ventilation filters
– broken tiles in bathroom and kitchen
– faucet
– wallpaper
– some furniture
Get your friends’ opinion
Ask some friends to pretend they are a buyer, and get some advice and suggestion to make your house more ready to sell. And the most important thing is for your friends to feel your home is like their own home.