10 Tips for Selling Your House
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Declutter is always the #1 suggestion when selling your home. Cleaning out and organizing your pantries and closets will help storage to appear ample.
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Remove unnecessary furniture. Either put furniture in storage or donate/sell any unwanted items. This will make rooms appear larger and allow potential buyers the ability to visualize their own furniture in the room.
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Take down personal items. Remove family pictures or other personal décor items to allow potential buyers to visualize their own pieces in the space.
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First impressions matter! Keep up your curb appeal by ensuring grass is trim and shrubbery and garden beds are maintained. Spread some fresh much and put potted plants or flowers out on a front porch or by the entrance.
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Deep clean your house. Have your house professionally cleaned and keep it up! No matter the age of your house, it is new to any buyer. They want the house to feel new! If you have pets, make sure that any unpleasant odors are taken care of.
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Paint any brightly colored rooms a neutral tone or white. Touch up trim and baseboard paint.
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Check items off the to-do list. Buyers do not want to see a to-do list ahead of them and some repairs may be brought up during inspections as well. Best to fix any leaky pipes now!
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Replace kitchen and bathroom faucets. New fixtures need not be expensive, but small upgrades to clean, new faucets will spruce up the appearance of your bathrooms and kitchen.
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Before any showings, make sure beds are made.
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Before any showings, put out fresh flowers.
The 21 Pledge Points of The CENTURY 21 Seller Service Pledge
CENTURY 21 real estate professionals are dedicated to making the process of selling your home as easy as possible. Below you will find the 21 pledge points offered in support of helping you.
- Dedicate myself to making the process of selling your home as easy and as successful as possible.
- Respect you, your needs and be honest and forthright.
- Hold your best interests in the highest regard throughout the process.
- Value and respect your time, being as efficient and effective as possible.
- Understand your needs and respond quickly.
- Use my base of experience, knowledge, tools and the most up-to-date training to best serve you.
- Provide regular progress reports throughout the process and discuss with your comments received about your property.
- Explain each step of the process and act as a guide to help you make the most informed decisions.
- Make recommendations to enhance the marketability of your property.
- Use a written Competitive Market Analysis and local market information to help you set the right listing price to sell your home and get the value you deserve.
- Review various financing alternatives and assist you in determining the alternative that best enhance the sale ability of your home.
- Develop, present and agree upon a Customized Marketing Plan that will detail specific promotional efforts to help best market your property.
- Place the internationally recognized CENTURY 21-yard sign on your property, with your permission and subject to local ordinances.
- Provide worldwide exposure for your property on the Internet, including posting your property on Century21.com, a site that receives millions of visitors each month.
- Explain local real estate procedures and regulations.
- Show your property to pre-qualified buyers.
- Utilize the CENTURY 21 System of thousands of offices to expose your property to potential buyers referred to my office.
- Utilize the vast and powerful resources of the CENTURY 21 System to get you the results you deserve, including leveraging a Network of 6,500 offices and 104,000 agents worldwide.
- Submit to you all written offers, assist with negotiations, and provide an estimate of your net sales proceeds, so you understand all implications prior to any acceptance.
- Upon acceptance of an offer to you, pre-settlement (escrow) activities throughout the closing process will be monitored as permitted by law or local practice.
- Assist you in finding your next home, or offer to refer you to another office in another location
