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What to do While your Home is being Shown
One of the important aspects
of selling your home is showing your home.
Before this happens, though, you want to make sure your house is in good
enough condition to show. No one wants to buy a home so messy or dirty that it
looks like it’ll take more work to fix up the place than it’ll take to actually
buy it!
To prepare your home for
viewing by others, open curtains and turn on lights to give your home a bright,
full-of-light appearance. If the house is being shown in the evening, be sure
to turn on all outdoor lighting to illuminate your home. Ensure that all rooms
are neat and clean. You might consider shifting around the furniture so that
rooms look as big as possible.
Viewers will want to evaluate
the kitchen, so be sure that it’s clean. Clean dirty dishes. Put all clean
dishes away. If you have kids, make sure that their toys are placed neatly on
shelves or in toy boxes in their rooms only. No one wants to trip over Harry
Potter memorabilia while trying to make a big decision like whether or not to
buy a home. If the weather outside is cool, give your home that cozy feel by
lighting a fire in the fireplace (if your home has one, that is).
When the time comes for your
agent to actually show the home, leave the home, if possible. Your presence
might make people feel like intruders. If you must stay at home, try and stay
out of the agent’s way as much as possible. If the potential buyers ask
questions, feel free to answer them. However, avoid bombarding them with
questions; you don’t want prospective buyers to feel on-the-spot. It’s better
if the agent answers their questions as much as possible.
Dont mention items you wish
to dispose of or sell, unless you’re specifically asked by the viewers. Again,
this is to ensure your viewers don’t feel put on the spot.
If the agent holds an open
house, it’s best to not be around at all. If you are around, keep pets
outdoors, keep children quiet and in one area, and keep music or television
noise to an absolute minimum (though it’s much better to have them off—an open
house is noisy enough without the extra factors). Also, just to be on the safe
side, hide all money and valuables. You want to sell your home, but not to
someone who’s going to pawn your family heirloom to purchase it!
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