Pricing and Staging your Home
Hi,My name is Mark Petrillo. I am an agent in the Central Florida area. My office is actually in Clermont. Exit Realty Pros Elite. I wanted to bring valuable tools together that you can use to help market and get your home sold. Selling a home is not an easy task. There are some things you need to be aware of when trying to sell your home. Below I have listed some things that will help you get your home sold. Look for a helpful LINKS page on this Website that will give you documents and paperwork that you will need to get your home sold. And again if I can help answer any questions you might have feel free to give me a call. Happy Homeselling !!
* Pricing your home
The first thing you need to do is to find out what the neighboring homes have sold for. Agents generally call this a CMA or a Comparative Market Analysis. You can go here and I will do one for you for free:
http://get-your-homes-value-free.weebly.com
* Staging your home
What you can’t see can sell your house. But how do you stage the
invisible?
Scent or odor?
The difference is in the nose of the beholder.
Bright or glaring?
It’s all in what someone sees.
That’s what makes staging bathrooms so difficult: Much of what makes these
small rooms appealing just can’t be fixed with traditional staging
techniques.
Barb Schwarz, veteran stager and owner of StagedHomes.com, says that the
unspoken dynamic of presenting bathrooms is the ‘ick factor.’ A quick swipe of the surfaces and a quick light of a scented candle are exactly the wrong approach, because home buyers will see what you just don’t anymore.
“Most people don’t see their own dirt. It can appear clean, but it isn’t
really clean. My sellers and students say ‘Ewww,’ but black lights that show
urine on the floor, walls and fixtures.
Untouched dirt in hard-to-reach places might stay in the shadows, but its
odor emanates into the room’s atmosphere. Buyers sniff out attempts to cover smells with scented air fresheners and candles and wonder if you’re trying to disguise problems more ominous than an unwiped toilet bowl.
Meanwhile, poor lighting and weak ventilation cast their own pall on
bathrooms. Heavy shadows make even sparkling surfaces look dingy. Stale air implies that the air in the room never quite leaves…hardly a selling point.
Q-tip-clean: that’s the standard. “It has to look clean and be clean.
“You can’t assume that people will have the same definition of what clean
smells like, but we all know what dirty smells like. “You don’t
want to have a lingering scent of heavy cleansers or bleach. Some people like it, some don’t. A clean, fresh, lemony smell is always pleasing.”Scrub the grout with specialized grout cleaner or a magic eraser.
Consolidate and clear out the clutter of shampoo, conditioner and toiletries
containers that clutter most bathrooms. One idea: put the bottles in a plastic
basket with an open-weave bottom. Whisk the basket under the sink in advance of showings.
Banish bar soap and switch to soap dispensers. Slimy bars of soap are just
too intimate a detail to be on display.
Toss the fuzzy rugs and toilet-lid cover. They look like magnets for
dust…and worse.
Use an odor eliminator designed to absorb smells in locker rooms or pet
areas. Or, use an ozone machine to clear the air.
In a vacant home tie the toilet lid with a bow to discourage visitors from
using the bathroom.
Run the ventilation fans while you tidy up the rest of the house, and turn
them off just before you leave. Consider leaving the window open just a crack to ensure a whiff of fresh air.
Swap patterned shower curtains for white curtains. Add a touch of green, says Schwarz, possibly in a fern or vase. If you decide to repaint, consider a neutral tone with green trim. Green goes perfectly with white or beige.
Dark-colored towels, belted with drapery cords, provide a clean, classic
contrast to most color schemes. The decorative ties imply that the towels are
untouched and steer visitors’ minds away from the ‘ick’ factor. “When you’re at work, and people are coming through, you don’t want peoples’ hands on your towels. Tie ‘em up so they’re organized and then people won’t use them.
- Plan the view from the doorway. Few buyers will actually step into a
bathroom, especially a powder room. Make sure that what they can see from the doorway is bright and appealing – and that includes what is reflected in the mirror. - Roll towels and pyramid them in a basket under a console sink.If the corners of an expansive counter are dark, consider installing small lamps with short cords, on either end.
- Replace the light bulbs with higher-wattage bulbs.Turn on all lights, even in the shower.
bathroom, especially a powder room. Make sure that what they can see from the doorway is bright and appealing – and that includes what is reflected in the mirror.
Mark Petrillo
Coldwell Banker/Tony Hubbard Realty
1795 East Highway 50
Clermont,Fl 34711
[email protected]
352-504-5780
http://Soldbymark.mfr.mlxchange.com
Coldwell Banker/Tony Hubbard Realty
1795 East Highway 50
Clermont,Fl 34711
[email protected]
352-504-5780
http://Soldbymark.mfr.mlxchange.com