Health & Fitness
Selling Your Home? Tidiness is Essential!
Your REALTOR will keep your home tidy at all times when selling your home. Read how you can minimizine the stress by asking your REALTOR to limit showing to when YOU want the home showed.
As if selling a home isn’t stressful enough, tidiness is essential!
The very most important factor in selling a home is that it is priced correctly. In short, your real estate professional should evaluate the most recent sales of a property that is close in the characteristics of your home and price your home accordingly. You should be provided with a Comparison Market Analysis or CMA.
Once the property is listed and appointments for your home to be shown are made it can be a very exhausting and stressful time for a home seller. It is our job as REALTORS to counsel you about keeping your home clutter free and as tidy as possible at all times so that the home will sell quickly. The process of keeping the home clean at all times can feel like Spring Cleaning on
steroids.
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You and your family members will be constantly picking up toys, washing dishes and sweeping and mopping floors so that you won’t be caught off guard when REALTORs start showing your home to prospective buyers. The thought of people looking in my pantry and closets is unsettling — even for me.
To keep stress at a minimum, when you list your home do not be afraid to ask your REALTOR to have prospective homebuyers call to make an appointment to show your home. The time you need to prepare for visitors could be as short as one hour and up to 24 hours.
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Don’t feel obligated to show your home if a REALTOR knocks on your door and asks to see it because they “are in the neighborhood.” Appointment instructions should be included in the agent remarks section of the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and should be respected by real estate professionals.
Make your home available for showings on your terms--but not so restrictive that the home will be difficult to show. The more flexible you and your family can be, the quicker you can sell your home.
Once the house is sold you move on, relax and enjoy the next chapter of
your life.
Lorraine Best is a Temecula-based real estate broker associate and Homes for Heroes Affiliate. A expert in military-related real estate, she is more than happy to answer any questions you might leave in the comment section. She can be reached at 951-233-6334.
