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Top 10 quick home selling tips - Milford real estate

Everybody would like to do the least and get the biggest bang for their buck when selling their Milford real estate.  But that is not always the case.  Sometimes it takes a little work to get a home ready for sale.  But here are my top 10 quick tips to sell your Milford home for the best price.

Here are some tips to help you sell your house.

1)  Painting gives you one of the biggest bangs for your bucks.  Your walls should be neutral colored.   Light beige, light greys, light yellows, and off whites. Repainting takes time and is work..

2)  Now this tip is a lot of work.   Wall paper will turn off so many home buyers.  If you have wall paper on the walls take it down and repaint.  People can not get past wallpaper.  To 95% of the people it is a negative and work for them.  Your beautiful wall paper is somebody else's nightmare.

3)  This one is easy.  It just takes some muscle and time to move furniture out of the house.  Make the rooms appear spacious, store furniture at a friends house or in a storage locker.  Get rid of the extra chair, the overwhelming wall unit, the family hand me down.  Open all the rooms up.
 
4) Closets store the extra stuff you are not using.  Make them appear spacious.  Open them up. 

5)  Depersonalize the house.  Take down all the family photos.
6)  If you are a hunter take down the mounts.  Store them in boxes. If your wife is into county or southwestern themes.  De-countryfi it.  You don't want to offend and you want people to picture themselves and their family in your house.  They can't do it if it is themed to something they don't like.

7) Odors are one of the top 5 turnoffs for buyers.  Smokers.  Get rid of the smoke smell.  Repaint, clean the carpets, and smoke outside.    Estate  people.  Clean the carpets, repaint.  Mildew smells.  Fix the leak.  Get a disenfect spray that eliminates the odor not just cover it up.  Usually takes a couple of cans over 3 or 4 days.  Pet owners.  Clean up more see below

8)  If you have pets.  Vacuum more, clean up the poop more, empty the litter box more.  Don't ever let the dog back into the house if he's wet right before a showing.  Doggy smell will kill the deal.  Get rid of the smell.  Get the general disenfect spray that eliminates the odors

9)  Clean up the front yard.  Put some flowers in pots or hanging baskets on the front porch.  Keep the grass mowed and edge and bushes trimmed.  Add fresh mulch or spruce up the beds.  People do drive bys.  Make them want to come in.  

10)  For showings get a chocolate chip candle. (they sell them in candle shops)  Turn all the lights on.  Turn every one on.  Put pictures of the house in the summer out.  Turn the fireplace on.  Keep the temperature comfortable.
 
 

 

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