My August e-newsletter is now available. Below is an excerpt from the cover story (“10 ways to sell your home faster for more”). Here’s 5 ways to sell your Arlington home fast – for more:
1. Clean It Up
A fresh coat of paint, clean windows, shampooed carpets and other smaller clean-up tasks can make your home shine. When the house looks good, it makes potential buyers feel good -- perhaps good enough to put in an offer.
2. Clutter Be-Gone!
Gather up clutter and remove personal flair from your home. The extra openness and space you reveal to potential buyers after this cleanup will result in heightened interest in your home, providing you partner a clutter-free home with a great price. See 101 ways to prepare your home for sale.
3. Step Away
When your home is for sale, it's no longer your abode. It's now a product that is on the market to be sold to a new owner. As difficult as it may be, you need to work hard to remove your sentimental connection to your home, price it to sell and look at the process strictly as a business transaction.
4. Price Right
Setting the right price for today's market is critical. Not yesterday's price. Not a zesty price from one-size-fits-all online formulas. Not your dream price. The right price is the market price based on the latest comparable sold homes, with a nod to the current competition's asking prices and recently expired listings that define the wrong-price ceiling.
5. Store Off-Site
If you're like most homeowners, your storage areas are likely crammed full of things you're not currently using. When you're selling your home, it's best to make your closets and cabinets look less full. Buyers want to see that there is plenty of room for their things – and not feel that they, too, will be bursting at the seams if they own your home.
More Tips
Get 5 more tips for how to sell your Arlington home fast, find out your home’s energy pulse, see how to go green with remodeling, and learn why smaller can be better and more in my August e-newsletter, where you can sign up to receive it free via e-mail.
Or, if you’d like to be on the mailing list to receive a free printed copy, want to search homes for sale in Arlington or need help selling your home, feel free to e-mail me at Meg@MegRoss.com or give me a call at 703-447-0970.
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