Selling Your Home in Idaho
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Pro Tips for Selling your Home in Idaho
How to Time Selling your Home
Timing is extremely important in the real estate market. The graph below illustrates the importance of placing your property on the market at a realistic price and terms from the very beginning. A property attracts the most excitement and interest from the real estate community and potential buyers when it is first listed; therefore, it has the highest chance of a sale when it is new on the market.
Home Selling Price vs. Timing
More buyers purchase their properties at market value than above market value. The percentage increases even further when the price drops below market value. Therefore, if you price your property at market value, you are exposing it to a much greater percentage of prospective buyers and you are increasing your chances for a sale.
How to Stage your Home when Selling
Staging your home may require quite a bit of effort but it will greatly improve the type of offers you may receive from buyers who appreciate the perfected condition of your home.
Rent a storage unit
Deposit all excess junk, furniture, clothing, and unnecessary items. Remove 50% of all items from table tops, dressers, and counters.
Clean, clean, clean
Deep clean all bathrooms, appliances, carpets, walls, and windows. Buyers are drawn to spotless homes that smell clean.
Empty, then organize Closets
The buyers will feel the home had more room for their belongings.
Open all of the Blinds
Buyers love a lot of light. If some areas of your home are dark, add a lamp and leave all the lights on.
Remove Personal Items
Remove all personal pictures from walls, dressers, and mantels. Buyers want to decide where their family portraits with be placed.
Furniture Arrangement
Arrange the furniture to provide a spacious feeling. Consider removing furniture from rooms that are too crowded. Remove any furniture that looks old and tattered.
Decor
Consider adding fresh or silk flowers to a dining or living area.
Touch-Ups
Check for peeling paint or dirty walls. If it needs paint, do it prior to marketing. This includes cabinets, molding, and especially doors.
Tidy Up
Kitchen work areas need to be cleared of all appliances and knick knacks. Counter space is very important to most buyers. Clean and polish all woodwork and cabinets. Use a product that will make them look newer and shinier. Use wood soap to clean and a product like Old English to smooth out scratched wood trim and moldings. If marketing in the winter, be sure to take a look at your tired yard. Pick up all debris and cut down all of last years planting. Rake out flower beds, and if the lawn is looking exhausted, rake it too!
