Preparing Your Home to Sell
By CD Mohatta

Make all necessary visible repairs, particularly the small ones. This includes things like finishing unfinished projects, repairing broken screens, cracked windows, leaks, shaky railings, and damaged flooring.

Freshen walls with fresh paint and neutralize color schemes to appeal to the majority of buyers. Wallpaper tends to be very personal and most potential buyers will see themselves as having to remove it, so strip or paint over all wallpaper.

Clean the landscape. A good weekend yard clean up could add thousands of dollars to the value of your home. In some cases, it is worth it to add pizzazz to the front entrance of your home with new plants, planters, an outdoor light, a mailbox, or other attractive features.

Clutter tops the list for discouraging offers and reducing the amount of those offers. Get rid of or prepack as much as possible. What you do absolutely need to keep for immediate use, store out of site in furniture or arrange neatly in closets with ample space. Most of your clothes, media, books, collections, office items, toys, wall art and personal photos can be prepacked and removed from the living areas.

Each room or area should have a clear purpose such as: living room, dining room, bedroom, home office. Avoid having rooms other than great rooms serve more than one purpose. Keep only the essential furniture in each room to maximize the feeling of space.

Spring clean your house. Everything should be thoroughly dusted, vacuumed, or washed. Animal and smoking smells in particular, must be thoroughly cleaned, not just covered up with air fresheners.

Sell the lifestyle. Add an arrangement to several rooms such as fresh flowers, candles, or an attractively set table. Each room should be appealing as if it were a fine hotel.

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