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Four first steps in preparing your home for sale

Four first steps in preparing your home for sale


In a recent video, I talked about "preparation" as a foundational cornerstone to begin your home selling effort.


But, where do you start?


Here are the first four things that should be tackled before you list your home for sale.



Transcript


In a recent video, I talked to you about four things that you have control over as a home seller.


Those items were the amount of preparation that you put into getting the home ready for sale, how that home is presented to the public, how it's promoted, and, finally, how it's priced.


I want to dig a little bit deeper into the first item on that list because it really is kind of a foundational point and quite important.


When a home buyer comes to look at your property, we want to make it as easy for them as possible to see themselves in that home, and they do tend to see themselves living there as it's presented now. So if the place is a chaotic mess, it sends bad energy to them that makes them wanna run out of there, and I've seen it happen a hundred times.


So four things that you should focus on in your preparation effort.


Number one, declutter. Put some shit away. Most sellers have way too much stuff in their home. You want to be thinking show home, minimalist. The less clutter, the better. The opposite of chaos is order, and if you can create an orderly environment, people will want to be there.


Secondly, depersonalize. Take the kid's awards off the walls and the family photos. Pack them up. Put them into a box. Get them ready for your move. Those things can be very distracting. It's funny, you see people reading college degrees on the walls and looking at family photos. Put that stuff away so that the focus can be entirely on your house.


Number three, deep clean. This is the time to get that property as spiffy as you possibly can because, frankly, people are disgusted by other people's dirt.


And finally, fix stuff. There are a hundred little things in most houses that need to be repaired, and now's the time to do it. Think about this. If you don't want to do it, what makes you think that a buyer wants to buy those problems? Fix 'em up.


Look, I get it, we're all busy, and some people have got just too much on the go to get this stuff done.


That's where you can turn to a real estate professional for some help. We've got teams that we can deploy to your house to get that work done.


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I’m always happy to answer your Saskatoon real estate questions.  Reach out by voice or text at 306-241-6676 or email me at norm at teamfisher.com


Norm Fisher

Royal LePage Vidorra

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About Norm

Licensed in 1993, Norm brings a wealth of experience to TeamFisher. He has worked in every imaginable capacity including sales agent, office manager, team leader, broker and now, broker/owner. Norm has written a weekly review of the Saskatoon real estate market for more than 750 consecutive weeks which may make him the most consistent industry blogger in the world.Less...

Licensed in 1993, Norm brings a wealth of experience to TeamFisher. He has worked in every imaginable capacity including sales agent, office manager, team leader, broker and now, broker/owner. Norm has written a weekly review of the Saskatoon real estate market for more than 750 consecutive weeks which may make him the most consistent industry blogger in the world.

Norm is known for his passion for technology and can most often be found exploring and experimenting with the next big thing in real estate marketing. He was the first Saskatoon real estate agent to promote a home online and has been an early adopter of new technologies ever since. “Everything about this business has changed over the past 20 years, and it will happen again in the next ten. An open mind and a curious attitude are all that’s needed to continue to find new ways to serve our clients by delivering a faster, smoother, worry-free transaction,” says Norm.

In his spare time, Norm enjoys Crossfit and cycling, some years accumulating over 2,000 kilometres on the road. He’s a strong supporter of the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation and enjoys raising funds by joining fun, fitness-related initiatives like the Grouse Grind for Shelter. In 2015, he trekked the Peruvian Andes to Machu Picchu. In 2017 he walked the southern highlands of Iceland across mountains, sand, snow, ice, lava fields and forest for seven days. Collectively those initiatives raised over a million dollars for Canadian women's shelters.
 

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