5 tips to sell your Metro Detroit home quicker

Here are 5 quick tips to sell your Metr Detroit home quicker and for more money. Metro Detroit home buyers want to move in plug in the TV, put the drinks in the fridge, and put their feet up on the couch. Metro Detroit home buyers do not want to paint, remove wallpaper, redo the house. Buyers want the home "move in ready"

So here are my 5 tips to sell your Metro Detroit home quicker:

1. De-clutter - get all the knic knacs off the shelves, counter tops, refrigerator. Open up the rooms by getting rid of a few pieces of furniture. Most rooms should only have 3-4 pieces of furniture in them. Organize and straighten up your home. Store all your excess stuff at a storage locker or a friends house.

2. Deodorize - nothing kills a home sale quicker than bad smells. Smoke outside, repaint to get rid of the smell. Find the source of the odor and eliminate it. Some smells that offend home buyers. Pet odors, fishy smells, mildew smell, old person smell, curry, cigar or cigarette smoke. You may not smell it but may offend a buyer. Buy a Cinnamon, or chocolate chip cookie candle and burn it before showings. Don't over do it though. Don't go crazy and over spray smelly deodorizes.

3. De-personalize - Take down you personal and family pictures. If you have collections put them away. If you are country themed or ultra modern loosen up the them. By appealing a larger number of hopme buyers you are more likely to sell your home quicker. The buyer may not like country.

4. Neutralize - Get rid of the flowered or vegetable wallpaper. Repaint that purple wall. Tear up that patterned carpeting or shag carpeting. Again you want the home to be move in ready. So people do not have to do anything. A neutral color will appeal to a greater number of buyers than that dark red wall.

5. Update - Updated homes sell quicker. So if you are in the home and want to update the kitchen or bathroom. Do it. Enjoy it while you live there. This is a general rule: Most updates increase the value of the home. Sure you do not get it all the money back but it helps sell the house. An updated kitchen will sell twice as fast as a 20 year old kitchen.

These five Metro Detroit home sales tips will help you sell your home quicker. Listen to your Metro Detroit Realtor. Your Metro Detroit Realtor knows what helps sell a home and every house is different. So they may have tips particular to your home. For more tips give me a call on my cell at (313) 310-9855 or email me at info@RussRavary.com

If you live in the Metro Detroit Real estate area I will be glad to walk through and tell you what you should do to get more money for your home. Have a great day.

Russ Ravary your Metro Detroit real estate agent serving Livingston, Oakland, and Wayne County