10 tips to sell the house quickly

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10 tips to sell the house quickly

Do you want to sell your house in record time? Here are 10 tips from experts

In a full economic crisis a house may remain for months on real estate market before being sold. Real estate experts say that in this period, perhaps more than ever, it is important the way we prepare a building for selling. Do you not know how to find an eager buyer faster to move into your old house without to lower so much the price from the initially price established?

Here are 10 effective tips that will help you to sell your house in record time:

1. Detach yourself emotionally from the property you want to sell

Did you live in this house or in this apartment for years and it’s hard to get used to the idea that no longer belongs to you? It’s normal. It happens to those who stood with rent in the same place for several years. We all emotionally attach to the space where we live and we used to call it home.

So if you decided that it is time to break up with the current residence, you must detach yourself emotionally from it. Otherwise you will only delay the transaction, because you will not be able to act constructively and properly prepare the property for sale.

2. Analyse the real estate offers from your neighborhood
   

Before you put up to sales house you should establish the right price. Take time and analyses the real estate offers in the area where your house is, to find out the selling price of similar properties to the one you want to sell.

Study carefully the terms of other offers: the level where the apartment is, if it is detached or semi-detached, the land surface around the house, the number of outhouses and their condition, quality of finishes and the amenities included in the price (garage, parking, concierge etc.). All of these will help you establish objective the market value of the house or apartment that you want to sell.

3. Look at your home with a critical eye

Even if the apartment or house that you decided to sell is dear to you, waking you only pleasant and beautiful memories, try to detach yourself and have an objective look as if you see it for the first time. A potential buyer will not excite the sympathetic scribbles on the walls – artistic outbursts of your daughter when she was just 4 years.

And will not approve any absence from the bedroom glass door, shards made when chasing the ball by your son when he was little. All this will only lower the price requested by you.

Real estate experts say that people who come to take a look at a house offered for sale want to see their dream house, in which they will live the future, and not another family house full of memories.

4. The bathroom and kitchen – the finishing stroke

Probably like you, when you go on a vacation, you choose lodging in the hotel or the guesthouse whose bathroom looks flawless. The same thing happens for the real estate transactions, the experts in the field must point out.

So if you have no time or money to recondition the whole house, pay attention to the kitchen and the bathroom. The appearance and the condition of these two rooms are decisive in the eyes of critics of the potential buyer.

For the kitchen: buy a bucket of washable paint and freshen the colour of the walls. Then tighten the hinges left from the kitchen cabinets. If you miss any handle, replace them all with new ones that you find in DIY stores. Spread out a tablecloth matching, get rid of old rags and towels and tidy the worktop.

For the bathroom: firstly, clean the sandstone and the faience tiles. If it is needed, cover the ceiling with a fresh coat of paint. If the sink is chipped, make an effort and replace it. Do the same with the mirror. Make sure to throw all the empty bottles of shampoo and small trinkets collected over time to give the impression of tidy and clean space.

5. A home where the buyer can move in anytime

The real estate experts say that most customers are looking to buy a key house, in which they can move immediately after the transaction of sale. Therefore they avoid investing in a building that needs replacing like plumbing or electrical. So, if you want, to quicken the sale time, make sure you fix all the pipes with problems and also that the electric route is fully functional.

Tip: Invest in new plugs and switches, especially if the old ones do not look great.

6. The front door –the card of the house

A house is known by the front door. If the door is old, dirty, stained or scratched, the look will overshadow the whole house, the first one that strikes the potential buyers. A new entrance door, which can be found at reasonable prices, starting at 400-500 lei, will surely make a better impression to buyers than an old one.

The same thing is available for the interior doors and related woodwork. It is true that changing of them involves other costs and hard work. Therefore it would be appropriate to try and cover them, even with a new coat of paint if a simple cleaning does not solve the aspect problem.

7. Free the space by dropping pieces of old furniture and unnecessary things

A crowded house, full of all sorts of old things and furniture objects more or less matched, will seem much smaller than it actually is. If you decided to sell the apartment or house already furnished, just try to keep the absolutely necessary furniture. Do not linger to toss broken items that you do not even like nor are useful for you. Also, take out the contents of the cupboards, the display cabinets, the closets and libraries.

An empty house, in which the new owners can move their belongings without having to get rid of the junk collected over time by you and your family will sell more easily.

8. Small decorative tricks for a great effect

Even if you still live in the house that you have decided to sell, be careful to do it more presentable to potential buyers that you will step into it. You would not rush into buying an untidy home, in which the furniture has nothing in common with the decorations and finishes. And not to spend a fortune, invest in small decorative elements that will embellish the house, convincing them to beat palm buyers.

In the living room, for example, you can dress the armchairs and sofa in new covers, matching them with the drapes, curtains or carpet. In this way you can mask the wear state of the sofa. And because we are speaking about curtains, make sure that they have the right length, to be neither too long nor too short. It is an aesthetic detail that can change the entire look of the room.

Tip: An interior pot plant large and rich has the gift to “pick the look”. So do not hesitate to buy a large ficus or a flat palm, whom you can find a place in your living room.

The bedroom should be also released, airy and bright. Make sure you do not have clothes thrown on bedside nightstand and the bed is always impeccably arranged, so do not be taken aback by visitors curious about how their future bedroom looks.

9. Dismantle and store up early the things that you want to take with you

This is especially true if you have specified in the announcement of the sale that the house is sold furnished and equipped. Store up and pack the objects and things that you do not want to give up before the first visit. Otherwise, the customers will believe that everything found at the scene is included in the sale price. And you might be sorry after dishwasher or by 156 cm diagonal TV which costs a fortune.

Furthermore, no customer is interested in family photos framed and unlikely to understand the sentimental value of the candy bowl made of crystal and the doilies that you received as a gift from your grandmother or favourite aunt.

Tip: After you disassemble the favourite chandelier, replace it with another lightening and do not forget to seal the left holes in the walls after collecting the family pictures.

10. End polish

After you settled all the details above, allocate one day for general cleaning or two, if you have a big house. Although, if you do not live there, is best to leave this “dirty work” in the hand of specialists. Hire a cleaning company that will make your home sparkle in just a few hours. And if you call for professionals, do not forget to ask them to clean all carpets and upholstered furniture pieces to freshen them.

Of course in the final cleaning there are included the cleaning of the windows, polishing chrome all elements (valves, railing, tables and chairs etc.) of mirrors and glass surfaces, defrosting freezers and washing, removing lime stains on the sink, sink, tub and toilet etc.

The idea is that, finally, according to the end of cleaning the house, to see it through the eyes of critics of potential clients. And then you will know for sure whether or not it will sell quickly.

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