Important Selling Tips To Remember
Getting your house ready to list on the market, can be a lot like getting a sip of water from a fire hose. There is a lot to do in a short amount of time and these selling tips can help you get there and see the rewards for your effort.
A lot of the selling tips that you hear out there are telling you to do major repairs or renovations. In the frenzy to get those big items done, some of the small, but critical tasks get overlooked and forgotten.
These selling tips will concentrate on the kitchen and bathrooms as those are, in most cases, what is most important to the buyers that you are trying to attract.
We see this a lot when listing homes for sale. A well-prepared home with just a few small items that need attending to. Be sure to add these small selling tips to your to-do list to make sure your house is fully ready for the market and all those hungry buyers.
Seller Tips For The Bathroom
Do you have that toilet bowl ring? You definitely have to get rid of that as one of the important selling tips. We do recommend that you have all the seats down for showings but in many cases, people forget this part and the buyers will take notice of this little detail.
Here are a few key selling tips from our professional cleaner friends:
Start out with some bleach. Pour about 1 cup of bleach into the bowl and let it sit. That ring should be gone in about 30 minutes to one hour, if the stain hasn’t calcified.
If it does remain, next up in the selling tips is a pumice stone. Let the water drain from the toilet as it’s flushing and use the water turn-off valve (usually behind the toilet) to turn off the water before it starts refilling. Lightly scrub the stain with the pumice stone.
If all else fails, our pro cleaners selling tips call for a product such as CLR that is specific for removing calcium and lime. You can pick it up at Walmart, Home Depot and online at Amazon.
Follow the instructions carefully and that ring should be a thing of the past.
Another Item In The Seller Tips For Real Estate
How does that grout look?
The internet is full of helpful selling tips and those that are not-so helpful. One of the most common chores on any list of selling tips that we’ve seen is cleaning bathroom grout. The suggestions for the job include everything from baking-soda-and-water, toothpaste and even vinegar.
In the long list of selling tips that actually work, it turns out that bleach is the best grout cleaner. Use it straight out of the bottle and let it sit for a while before scrubbing away the grime. Make sure you wear gloves and a face mask for this job as the bleach can go to your head fast.
Too toxic for you? Another in the list of good selling tips is to try using oxygen bleach powder (sodium percarbonate). A well-known brand is OxiClean but there are others as well.
Mix the powder with enough water to make a paste and smear it over the grout lines. Leave it there for 15 minutes.
Add more to the areas where the solution has soaked in, ensuring that the grout is always flooded with the paste.
Finally, use a toothbrush or other small scrubbing implement to scrub the grout, adding more if needed to remove the stains.
Real Estate Selling Tips For The Kitchen
Clean up the refrigerator. One of the many selling tips we recommend is to de-personalize your house so the buyers are able to envision themselves and all their stuff in the space. This includes all the magnets, pictures and the schoolwork on the fridge. Also give the refrigerator a good scrubbing and clean out.
Next on the selling tips tour is that oven window. We know, this sounds like a huge headache, but we promise it’s not.
Lay down an old towel or rug before you start to catch anything that may fall to the floor as you clean. Next, spread a baking soda & water paste over the glass window. Lay it on as thick as you can and swirl it around as you go.
Allow the paste to sit for 30 minutes then use a clean, wet rag to remove it. You may need to wring out the rag and wipe several times to remove it.
If any stubborn stains remain, use a sharp razor blade to gently scrape them away.
Repeat the procedure on the front of the glass window in the oven.
Finally, use your favorite window cleaner to shine up the glass.
Next in the selling tips we move on to the cupboards. That’s right the buyers are going to open the cupboards to see how large they are and how easy they are to access. They are trying to envision if all their own kitchen gadgets are going to fit well.
If you haven’t already started to pack up those large, rarely used gadgets of your own like the waffle iron and ice cream maker, now is a great time to. When the buyers take a peak, they want to see lots and lots of space for their stuff.
On to the last of our selling tips for your house. Shine up all the stainless-steel appliances. Buyers have always been in love with these appliances but if they are loaded with fingerprints and spilled food and drinks, they will tend to be turned off.
Cleanliness is one of the best home selling tips we can recommend and it will go a long way in making those buyers feel right at home.
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