You Passed Curb Appeal, Now what?

You Passed Curb Appeal, Now what?

A Series of Inexpensive Ways to Maximize Your Selling Price While your Home is for Sale

I have talked about curb appeal, so now that the potential buyers have liked your house from the outside, they now have parked their car and are walking up to your entranceway. You don't want them to turn around and head back to their car, so here are a few tips for the front entry.

Does the front entrance and front door make a good first impression? (Remember the 10 second rule?). A fresh coat of paint can make the front door look great.

Does the front light work? You'd be surprised of the homes I go to where the porch light bulb is missing, or there are cobwebs, or are crooked or cracked. Make sure it's on if people are going to be coming after dark.

Make sure the doorbell works.

Replace any torn or worn screens on storm doors, and make sure the door is in perfect working order. No ‘KEEP OUT SIGNS' or ‘Danger' nailed to the door! No squeaking, jamming, or sticking locks. Make it easy to get in the house.

Once they get inside, make sure the hallway or foyer is free of clutter, shoes, coats, umbrellas, Uzi's and anything that takes up space.

Get rid of all the "stuff" from the entry table, or shelves in the front entry. Pick up extra key rings, mail, and other junk that gets piled up at the front door.

Clean out the front closet all of the clutter that gets thrown in the closet. Extra coats, shoes etc.and old Uncle Harry should be removed to make the closet look spacious not cluttered.

Need I say anything about cooking odours, body odours, and (BO) animal smells? And if it is you that reeks, leave while prospective buyers are touring your house. (Please note that we Canadians add a ‘u' to our words, so instead of odor, we spell it odour. Instead of color, we spell it colour. Why? No idea, we just like to confuse the heck out of spellchecker.)

So that's it, next I will talk about the other rooms in the house. I apologize up front for my lack of a sense of humour! (There is that ‘u' again!)

Ty