Denver Real Estate Views

Denver Sellers, there are 3 components in your last effort to prepare for the buyers first impression:

1. Staging – Typically, if you have been in your house for more than 3 years you need to move out approximately 1/3 of your furniture and 2/3 of the “stuff” on tables, shelves, in kitchen and bathroom cabinets.  Moving out mentally and physically so that the buyer can mentally move in is important and it gives you a head start for the move anyway.  The house needs to feel lived in, but not so lived in the buyer doesn’t think you can move out.  If you have a vacant property, I have a stager and we can fill that house in no time, we wouldn’t want a house to feel too vacant.

2. Cleaning – Let’s bring in the professionals and let them take care of business.

3. Pre Showing for constructive feedback – I love to bring in my best REALTOR friends and critics.  The will give us the constructive feedback we need before we let any buyers come in.  We want to make sure someone falls in love in the first 30 seconds.

I’m looking forward to helping you get ready to sell your house!

Number 3 on our list of things to think about before you put your Denver property on the market is to walk through with your REALTOR and decide what needs to be to the house before you put it on the market?

Are your door knobs, light fixtures and water faucets original?  Okay there are times, this is okay, but 90% of the time, these are cheap easy things to update.  Do all of your kitchen cabinet and drawers work? Do you have broken windows or doors?

These are basic things that need to be fixed or buyers will think you haven’t taken care of your house, even if they did just break yesterday.

Sometimes I recommend a pre-inspection done by my trusty inspector, who will find the important mechanical things that will be found by a buyers inspector. Depending on the situation, it might be in your best interest to have an inspection done so you get these things fixed so a buyer doesn’t have a reason to try to negotiate again on the price.

Talk to a professional BEFORE you spend any money, you don’t need to make your house brand new, you do need to make sure you take away as many of the buyers potential concerns before the house goes on the market.