Local Selling Tips

1: Increase The Odds

The first thing you should do to improve your chances of selling your house fast is to “stage” your home. This is when you make your house look as attractive as possible to potential buyers.

Consider the “curb appeal” of your home by putting yourself in the shoes of your prospective buyers. What do they see when they pull up in front of your house? Consider what type of relatively inexpensive, fast improvements you can make – such as landscaping or neatening up your front lawn – that will make your house more desirable.

If you don’t have time to clean the inside of your home yourself, spend a few bucks and have a local Greenville cleaning service do it for you. Then, once it’s cleaned, keep as many areas as possible off limits so that it stays neat and tidy. You may want to eat out until your home is sold!

If you don’t have time to do home staging yourself, there are plenty of local home staging companies out there… just head to Google and type “Greenville home staging companies”.

2: Upgrade

Ready for more house selling tips? Obviously, if you are going to be moving out of your home you don’t want to invest a lot of money in major improvements, such as a kitchen or bathroom remodel. But there are some more affordable upgrades you can make that will increase the value of your home and make it more attractive to buyers.

For example, if you currently have an old washer and dryer, replacing these with brand-new machines will only cost you a few hundred dollars but will substantially increase your home’s potential resale value. Plus, you can usually recover the cost of these types of upgrades –with interest – when you sell your home.

3: Don’t Distract

When potential buyers look at your home, they want to see it as their new place, not your existing one.

Help build this illusion by removing everything that personalizes your home, such as family pictures, personalized art, and any type of clutter.

It may be worthwhile to rent a storage unit for the time you are selling your home and move as much of your stuff as possible there to keep it out of the way.

The more open space you can create, the bigger your rooms will look.

For local storage units just head to Google and search for “Greenville self storage units” and you’ll find a whole bunch of them!