How To Start Preparing Your Home For Sale During The Winter
For those who are planning to sell their home in the near future, these tips from Amanda S. Davidson can help you maximize your return as well as making the process go much smoother:
How To Start Preparing Your Home For Sale During The Winter
Preparing your home for sale takes time and a well thought out plan. It’s not an overnight process and while winter continues to grace us with its presence now is the perfect time to start working on items that need attention inside your home. Even if you aren’t planning on selling this spring, think of taking care of items inside as New Year’s Resolution for your home.
Where to start?
Closets are a great starting point. Almost all of us have at least one closet that could use organizing. Take everything out and sort through what you do and don’t need. If its clothes, ask yourself when the last time was you wore an item. If the answer is more than 6 months ago chances are it should go into a donation pile. The same goes for shoes and accessories. If you’re working on a storage closet donate items that you don’t use and toss the junk. Don’t forget to do the same for your pantry. It all has a way of accumulating and if you’re selling you want to showcase your homes storage space in an organized fashion.
Painting
While you have everything out of your closets look to see if they need painting. If they do and you are able to paint yourself it saves time to do it when you already have everything out of the closets. Painting is a great way to make your home shine prior to putting it on the market. If you’re handy (and patient) you can save a lot of money by doing it yourself. Starting in the winter gives you plenty of time to take it room by room and not be rushed. It’s a tedious process but, one that really pays off when it comes time to sell. If you’re not selling maybe you just want to give a room a different vibe. Changing the color on the walls is a sure way to transform a room.
To read more tips about preparing your home for sale this spring check out our full article.
Amanda Davidson
Amanda Davidson Real Estate Group
Broker - Owner
Licensed in VA and DC6485 Old Beulah Street
Alexandria, VA 22315Cell: 703.431.3755
Fax: 703.562.7057
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