Interior and exterior needs to be clean and clear!
Sellers: Prepping your house for sale. Just because you love your house just as it is, doesn’t mean it is in it’s best condition to bring in the most buyers! There is definitely a pre sale thought process that you need to do, especially when the market softens as it is now. Make your home stand out. If you are looking to buy or sell in the Coachella Valley, give local agent, Kim Kelly a call at 760-285-3578.
5 Important Things to do BEFORE you list
- Clear it out! That means remove all the knick knacks from the shelves of course, but it goes further than that. Get rid of the big furniture pieces, anything that draws a buyers eye away from the property, is not a plus. This goes for casitas, ADU’s, garages, out buildings. Less is better. Clear the palette!
- Fresh paint Sellers homes: Hire a pro to do it right. A fresh coat of neutral interior paint, matching throughout helps your buyer flow from area to area. They can picture their own art on the walls. A constant, neutral color also makes a smaller unit feel larger and more open.
- Invest in new lighting: Especially important here in the Coachella Valley, where we like to bring the outdoors in. Starting from the exterior lights, including landscape lights. Create an atmosphere of brightness and calm. Make sure all your light fixtures match, the lampshades match each other in a particular space.
- Increase the size of your spaces: Be sure that you do not block the buyers path through the home. Anywhere. Remove large pieces, rearrange things so they can move freely from space to space. Keep sources of natural light wide open, do not place chairs, tables, obstacles of any kind in front of windows, doors, doors that lead outside especially. Make the areas appear larger than they are.
- Exterior: Lots to look at here. Be sure the front doorway and path to the doorway is well trimmed, painted fresh, and accessible. Repair and paint fences and gates. Be sure pools, putting greens, gazebos, appear as delightful escapes, not dark debris strewn, overgrown hazards.
Look at your home BEFORE you put it on the market with your buyers shoes on. Not as a seller, but as a potential buyer. Go to the curb, turn around and look at your home from the street, just as a potential buyer will. Be critical! Open the front door, and do it again. When that door opens, it should say, “welcome, come on in.”, not “good grief, it stinks in here and look at all the work I need to do.” Bring your buyers in, don’t run them off. After 23 years of selling properties in the Coachella Valley, these basics will always do you right. And get help from an experienced realtor; that’s part of our job!
