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Selling your House in Riverside CA - Tips

By Vicki Pedersen

Real Estate Agent with Pedersen Real Estate 01435175

February 03, 2010 10:45 AM

Selling your house in Riverside CA - Getting your house ready

house for sale sold If you are selling your home in Riverside California, it is important to put yourself in the buyer’s shoes and look at your house through their eyes. Think about what will make your house more appealing to buyers.

Here are some tips to help you get your home sold:

1. Make the house appear more spacious. Clear out as much furniture and clutter as you can. Opening up your rooms with less furniture is a great start to getting your house ready to show. Make sure that there is no furniture in traffic areas around the house. Hallways and doorways, in particular, need to be clear and open.

2. Clear off counters. Go through your house and clear off all of the horizontal surfaces like kitchen and bathroom counters. Get rid of things that you don’t really use and put away out of sight most of those items that you do use. Only keep one or two items on the counters in the kitchen, hide everything else away.

3. If you can smell it, you can’t sell it. This is one suggestion that many people don’t pay enough attention to. Your home should smell good with no pet odors, cooking odors or smoking odors. When we live with a pet or something else that causes odors oftentimes we get so used to the odors that we don’t even notice them anymore. Have a friend whose “nose” you trust give your home the sniff test. It is not good enough to go through your house just before a showing and spray with Lysol. You need to get rid of the smell by whatever means it takes.

4. Most buyers want a “move-in” ready house. If the property need to be taken care of, i.e. repairs, painting, replacing old carpet, take care of it before you put your house on the market. The more changes or repairs the buyers think they will have to make in your home, the less likely they are to buy it.

5. Your house should be spotless. Make sure that everything, including windows and inside cabinets are sparkling clean. Pay particular attention to the kitchen and bathrooms. I believe that this is the most important thing you can do to get your house ready to show. And keep it clean while it is on the market.

7. Update your home. It is much harder to sell a 40-year old home if it hasn’t been updated at all than a 40-year old home that has been updated. Many people are attracted to older homes, but it will be a problem if the paint and appliances, etc. are also 40 years old.

Selling your house in Riverside CA? It is important that you do all that you can to make your house as appealing to buyers as possible. Let's work together to get your home sold! There are a lot of buyers in the Riverside real estate market currently and the inventory is a lot smaller than it was a year ago - which is good for home sellers. Read my post about the inventory of Riverside houses for sale.

If you would like to learn more about selling or buying real estate in Riverside or Corona, California, contact me at vicki@pedersen-team.com or go to my website, http://Pedersen-Team.com