Traditionally, the busiest time for home sales on the West Bank of New Orleans are the months of March, May and June (poor April gets skipped over for some reason). If you want to take advantage of the prime selling season, it’s time to review what needs to be done to get your home ready for some serious buyer scrutiny.
Home Selling Tips
When showing homes to buyers, one of the most common complaints that we hear is that sellers don’t seem to be serious about selling – that if they were, they would at least clean up before their home is shown. Don’t let your house be the one that the buyers are talking negatively about. Nobody wants to be remembered for being the “dustballs the size of a cat” or “smells like last Friday’s fish fry” house! Read Home Selling Tips: Clean, Clean, Clean
Most of us overlook the clutter in our homes. We see it everyday and it just becomes a part of our lives. Now that you have committed to make your home “show ready”, you must be prepared to tackle it and part (just temporarily) with some of your treasures. Read Home Selling Tips: Clear the Clutter
Don’t let your lack of curb appeal be the reason that buyers pass you by. Remember, a picture of the front of your home is going to be the first thing that online shoppers see. If it doesn’t catch their eye, they will move on to one of the many other available properties for sale. Read Home Selling Tips: Curb Appeal
The goal of all of this preparation is to get the buyers to be able to imagine themselves living in your home. In order to do this, you need to appeal to the most common things that buyers are looking for and get rid of the most common things that turn a buyer off. This is often easier said than done, since it hard to look at our own homes through the eyes of buyers! I usually tell my sellers to think back to the model homes they have been in…they look like anyone could just move right in…that is the feeling you are trying to impress upon purchasers. Read Home Selling Tips: Neutralize
Staging your home can be as simple as a low-cost consultation with a professional stager who can provide you with a list of things to do on your own to make your home shine. Or, it can be as extensive as furnishing a vacant home to give it a lived-in and warm atmosphere. No matter which route you take, home staging can pay off in the form of a quicker sale. Read Home Selling Tips: Staging Your Home and Getting Your Home Sold in This Market – 10 Steps to Success According to Professional Home Stagers
At the end of the day, you don’t want buyers to go home thinking that you made one of the 10 biggest mistakes home sellers make. Instead, you want to be on that short list of houses that they go back to see again before writing an offer.
The West Bank Living Team is available for free, pre-listing consultations. Contact us today to schedule a confidential review of your home and how we can help you get ready to sell.
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Providing professional real estate services across the West Bank, it would be our pleasure to assist you in buying or selling your next home. Call Lisa at (504) 616-6262 or Terri at (504) 258-5178 for help with any of your West Bank real estate needs.
