Taking two steps will help make
buying and selling a home as smooth as possible. Hiring the right people makes all the
difference as well as presenting your home in the best possible light because
buyers are extremely particular. We’ll
tell you how to do both. Also, if you’d
like to see the latest ideas for kitchens, bathrooms, home-improvement products
and more, we’d be happy to send you free tickets to the Home Show.
Before you start preparing your home
for sale, hire a rock star real estate agent.
An agent can do a personalized walk-through to let you know what you
need to do—and not do—to increase your chances of getting top dollar for your
biggest investment. An agent will
ultimately save you time. The agent will
also build a strategy so that anyone who is looking for a house in your
neighborhood and price range will know about your home. Remember, there’s an art to pricing the home,
so you can count on your realtor to figure this out as well.
When selling your home, you also need to stage the
home and declutter it, so you have to think like a buyer. While you’ve probably personalized your home with paint colors,
collections, photos, and more, you want to present your home in a manner that
allows buyers to envision themselves in your space. Think of your home as a blank canvas, so the
prospective buyer can paint their own picture.
We’ll
declutter your home at no charge and even offer moving boxes for the items you
want to move to your new home. Keep in mind that buyers pay extra attention to the
kitchen, the room most people fall in love with.
On the buying side, working with an
inspector is the single most important initial investment you’re going to make.
It’s all about information. Make sure
you have an inspector who’s not afraid to get down and dirty: crawl in tight areas, look at the foundation,
check out places in the home you might not see with the naked eye. The bottom line:
getting a home inspection is a very, very good investment. You’ll have
all the information you need to move forward to negotiate repairs or walk
away. Either way, you save yourself a
lot of time and money if you know exactly what the house needs.
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Now’s the time to sell. We’re seeing multiple bids on homes. Again, if you’d like free tickets to the Home
Show March 15 to 24, RE/MAX and I would like to send them to you. Reply to my email at Lino@LinoArciTeam.com and
I’ll make sure you get them. You can
also contact me at (416) 571-2724 to build a strategy to get you into the home
of your dreams.
