Halloween Safety for Your Glenview Home

There is no need to skip the Halloween festivities while selling your Glenview home. It is important, however, to make sure trick-or-treaters and potential buyers are kept safe while visiting your house.

Here are some tips to keep your home “trick” free during Halloween:

Clear the Way to Your Home
Before you are visited by potential buyers or those witches, ghosts and little goblins, be sure to clear all your sidewalks, walkways and entryways of toys, broken limbs or branches, rocks, and other items that could pose a hazard.

Dangerous Decorations are a No-No
When decorating for Halloween; make sure to use safe decorations. While you may want to be as realistic as possible, using real items such as pitchforks and shovels is just asking for trouble. Use plastic and lightweight decorations to keep candy seekers and potential buyers, and their kids, safe from harm.

Keep the Gore and Blood Packed Away
If you are like many, Halloween is about the scare factor. However, you want buyers to fall in love with your home, not run away screaming. It’s best to keep all gory, bloody and offensive decorations packed away while selling your home. Use your imagination to create a positive spin without going over the line.

Light Up Your Home
Make sure the path to your entryway is well lit. Halloween lighting is fun to use, but be sure to keep string lights out of the walking path and cords tucked under mats and hidden. If you have timers or sensor lighting, be sure that they are on as soon as nightfall hits.

Fun with Pumpkins
Halloween isn’t the same without great Jack-O-Lanterns. Alleviate having to worry about someone knocking over a lit pumpkin by using LED votives to light all your carved pumpkins on Halloween night.

Be creative and imaginative with your pumpkin carving while keeping the faces on them fun instead of scary.

Keep the spirit of Halloween alive while keeping your home safe for potential buyers.

If you are selling your Glenview home this fall, be sure to be aware of the many visitors and types of buyers that may be viewing your home. The Marla Schneider Team can help sell your home within your time frame and for the most money possible. Call us today for a free CMA - Comparative Market Analysis.