by Maria Paoletti

Burbank Real Estate in Athol, MA wants to help you make your home more saleable = quicker results. Our goal is to make sure your home outshine the competition. By stepping back and viewing your home through the buyer’s eyes, you will get an idea what needs to be done. At Burbank Real Estate in Athol, MA, we offer this list of 10 tips to our sellers to help them prepare their home for a quick sale.

1. Disconnect – emotionally remove yourself from your home. You’ve made a mental decision to sell so “let go,” say “goodbye” to every room. Look towards the future, not backwards.

2. De-Personalize and remove distractions – Pack up personal photographs and family heirlooms. You want buyers to picture their own photos and items in the house.

3. De-Clutter – Remove unnecessary items. Remember SSDT: Sell, store, donate or throw away items that are no longer used or needed. Pack up knickknacks, books and clean off kitchen and bathroom counters (tuck small appliances and toiletries/toothbrushes etc in cabinets).

4. Rearrange and Organize closets and cabinets.

5. Rent Storage Space – Remove “extra” furniture pieces. Your home will show better and look more spacious with LESS FURNITURE.

6. Remove or replace items that will not be conveying with the home. e.g. window coverings, ceiling fans, pellet stoves, built in appliances, fixtures, chandeliers.

7. Make minor repairs and improvements. e.g. patch holes in walls, consider painting walls neutral colors, fix leaks, fix doors

8. CLEAN – make the house sparkle.

9. Inspect – Open your front door and look in through the buyer’s eyes…Is the house welcoming? Linger in every doorway and imagine how your home will look to a buyer. Does anything else need to be done?

10. Check curb appeal – how does your house look from the street? Mow the lawn, keep the sidewalk cleared, trim your bushes, place flower pots together or plant yellow flowers. Yellow induces buying emotion.

Now you’re ready to let the Paoletti Team and Associates of Burbank Real Estate, Athol MA sell your home!