Top 5 Tips For Selling Your Home Fast

Top 5 Tips For Selling Your Home Fast

If you’re in the market to sell your home you probably want to sell it as quickly as possible.

There are some tried and true ways to help you sell your home faster and, if you have a good realtor they’re going to probably know and utilize these tips.

On top of that, it will also help you know whether your listing agent is worthy according to whether they are or are not using at least most of these tips to help sell your home.

Price To Sell – One of the most effective ways to sell a home quickly is to truly price the home at that proper price from the very beginning. Unlike walking into a department store, seeing the words on top of a “For Sale” sign that says “Price Reduced” usually makes people think two things: First that the home has been on the market for a long period of and second that the home was over-priced to begin with or you wouldn’t have to reduce the price to sell it.

Your agent knows what the home’s true value is,  and along with an understanding of what your financial situation is, they will guide you as to what would be a good price. It’s best to listen to your agent since they are the professionals and have no emotional ties to the home that would sway their idea of what the value of the home is.

Use Professional Photos and Videos – As a part of the marketing of your home photos and video are a huge help. There is nothing worse than getting a listing with the words “Photo Not Available” because that instantly crosses your home off the list of desirable for most buyers.

On top of that if you have professional photos of the rooms that show the rooms at their best possible angles the buyer is impressed much quicker. As for professional videos, these become extremely important when your agent is utilizing online sources to give “tours” of your house; which is one of the best ways to lure a buyer in right from their own living room.

Utilize High Tech Marketing Methods – It’s a simple matter of staying up with the times. While experience often is a plus, it may not be nearly as helpful as the ability and ambition to keep up with the times and utilize modern marketing methods.

By modern marketing methods we mean using things like online tours, e-mail target marketing, QR Codes, text messaging, and so many other methods that utilize everything from the internet to Smartphones. They also have new ideas and techniques coming out daily and your agent should be on the cutting edge of what’s new and what has been proven to work in the world of technology.

Assure The Home Is Aesthetically Pleasing To The Buyer – It’s a well known fact that buyers usually prefer to see neutral colors and décor when it comes to looking at a house. They want to be able to envision their family or themselves living in your home; not see how you live there.

This generally means that even if your love your dark hunter green walls that match your rose colored couch and beautiful draperies it may simply not be their style. Decorating in simple methods with basic colors is always best. So keep your inside décor fairly neutral and simple.

Another huge aesthetic factor that is all too often overlooked is curb appeal. For people who drive by and see your home or For Sale sign; or those who drive by after seeing your home in a Realtor/Homes book or an online tour that drive-by is very important. It is one of the first things that either hooks them and reels them in to look further or makes them decide that the house isn’t all that great from the outside.

While you don’t have to go overboard with the outside decor you do have to make the effort to keep it maintained and perhaps add a few things to highlight and just “kick it up a notch” to grab their attention. Your agent should be able to help you decide what may lure buyers to want to look further.

They’ll probably suggest things like inexpensive lighting along the edges and walkways, edging your grass, painting a door or repainting a slightly distressed wooden edge fence and removing a lot of decorative lawn items if your yard is full of cute and fun outdoor decorations.

Again, just as with the inside, sometimes less is more when it comes to decorating and it’s best to have a simple, clean, maintained look when it comes to your yard and outdoor area.

Home Staging – Staging your home can be as intricate as actually having a professional home staging person come in and either guide you or take over staging the house; or as simple as getting guidance of how to de-clutter and change some things about the house when it’s presented.

Things like cleaning out closets, removing extra furniture, and making sure curtains and draperies aren’t dust covered can all be a part of “staging” your home. Think of home staging as perfecting your home as much as possible and creating a look that appeals to generally anyone.

This often means removing a lot of your own personal items, which can seem like a pain at first; but remember this simply means you’re getting ahead and packing up items that will need to be packed eventually anyways.

So while you don’t necessarily have to use each and every tip we’ve supplied to sell your home quicker it is a known fact that each and every one of these tips is tried and true when it comes to working in your favor of getting your home sold fast.

There’s never any guarantee as to how long a home will be on the market but you can generally assure that utilizing these tips will definitely decrease your waiting time!