Scoring A Touchdown With Your Open House
The open house has been part of the real estate selling process for years. That being said, most people still do an atrocious job throwing them. That is until you read this article and put the tips into practice.
Once you decide to sell the abode you have lived in, you need to make an emotional change. The property is no longer your home. It is just a product that must be sold. Come to grips with this and most of these open house tips will make sense.
The eyes are the pathway to the soul. In a home, the windows serve the same purpose, but outwards. If a window has a great view, make sure the blinds are wide open. If it does not, go in the opposite direction.
We are known as consumers. As part of our consuming, we produce trash. This is true for any one of us. When you have an open house, make sure all trash is gone. Garbage receptacles should all be emptied and not smelling horrific.
The shower doors are often a closely inspected item. Do not just clean them. Go the extra step. Clean them and then use a window squeegee to finish them off. You want them to look brand spanking new.
The toilets are another area that will get attention. Clean them thoroughly. Make sure to get the area behind the area where they tilt up and the outer section of the bowl where it meets the floor. The seat should be left down.
For some reason, the focus point of every home seems to be the kitchen. Yours should sparkle. This is a critical room, so clean everything like you have never cleaned before. Bake something that smells tasty to appeal to the sense of smell.
Of particularly focus should be the stove. It should be immaculate. We are talking about so clean that it appears brand new. Stove tops should shine and the baking area should be without baked crumbs and the like.
The place we store our food is next on the list. The refrigerator is nearly impossible to always keep clean, but you need to do it now. Do a big clean the day before the open house and then give it a once over an hour before hand.
One thing that many people forget to remove for the open house is so obvious because it is in front of you all the time. I am talking about your family and pets. Get them out! The home is off limits until one hour after the open house ends.
I cannot emphasize enough that you must focus on the fact you are selling a product, not your home. Think of selling an old car. What did you do? You cleaned it up as much as possible and treated it as a product. Do the same with your home.
