Getting Your Home Ready to Sell

Moving into a new home is often listed as one of the most stressful experiences the average person must endure. This is compounded if the people who are leaving have found their dream house, but still need to sell their current residence. This is always a tough situation, but the good news is that a few simple actions can steer you towards success. Here are three of them.

Removing Clutter

Any Suffolk real estate agent will tell you that keeping unneeded furniture, mementos or other large items can doom the sale of your home. When you submit and post pictures of your space, you want it to look as big as possible, and clutter just gets in the way. Think about this: you’re about to move anyway, right? What better time to toss anything you don’t need? If you haven’t used something in a year, you’re unlikely to ever use it again with regularity. Throw it away or donate it to a charity that can re-sell it.

Cosmetic Repairs

It may seem counter-productive to pour money into a property that you will be leaving soon. It is, however, well worth it to make whatever quick and easy cosmetic repairs possible to show your home in the best light. New paint or siding job or some landscaping can add significantly to your house’s curb appeal and deliver an impressive return on investment.

Staging

Most people searching for new homes in the 2020s start by checking them out online. The more high-quality, great-looking pictures you or your realtor can post the better, but it’s important to recognize the importance of “staging”. Stop thinking of your design preferences and take pictures that show the size and potential of your house to be personalized by others. This is easily accomplished by taking away anything that doesn’t need to be in the frame. After that, it’s easy for even a novice photographer to capture a room’s potential.