From the moment a prospective buyer has a first view of your home, they are making a sub-conscious decision about how much they like or don’t like your home. If they have a good impression of the outside of your home (often called curb appeal), that is one less objection you must overcome when they walk through the front door.
Smart home sellers are making needed repairs, painting, replacing worn carpet and updating what needs updating to make their homes competitive. An experienced home stager can perform a comprehensive home staging consultation and create a list of what needs to be done to get your home in top selling condition. In addition, if you have any structural, mechanical or maintenance issues you should consider hiring a professional building inspector for a pre-listing inspection. That way you are less likely to have the sale of your home torpedoed when the buyers building inspector finds something you should have fixed but didn’t.
Last week Los Angeles home staging company Moving Mountains Design was hired to stage a South Pasadena cottage. I had met with the home owners and listing agent in the beginning of December for a home staging consultation. The homeowner was very diligent about making all the repairs outlined in the consultation and preparing her house for sale. We all felt that it would be in the best interest of a faster sale to remove all of the existing furniture and replace it with new home staging furniture, artwork and accessories.
If you want to sell your home in the coming year, there’s no time like the present to follow through with these 7 home selling New Year resolutions.
7 New Year resolutions to help sell your home: # Hire a building inspector for a pre-sale home inspection. Why? A thorough inspection of your home by a building or home inspector before you put your home on the market will tell you everything you need to repair before listing. Starting on those repairs now, before you list your home, will remove many objections home buyers may have. Make the suggested repairs. It will pay off in a faster sale and higher selling price.
