Selling Your Home.....De-personalize It

You have your home on the market to sell. The home is priced compettitvely for the area, it is clean inside and has great curb appeal. Potential buyers looking at your home has been good to great but you are getting no offers...Why?

  Chances are your home is to personalized.  When a buyer walks into your home they are aware someone is living there.  What they do not know is who the person or family is. And they do not want to know.  They want to be able to walk into a house and start to envison what the house will look like with their furniture in it.  How they will lay out the home. They do not want to look at your family pictures and family portraits all over the place. They want to see clean walls with nothing or very limited things hanging on them.

If a buyer cannot envison their furniture, paintings, or family pictures in the house you are probably losing them as a possible buyer for your house.  Today,  I had a client who looked at three homes.  All three homes were on a very short list of homes they were considering.  We ended up with the ONE and only house that did not have ANY family pictures out in view and the walls were free of paintings and pictures.  We walked out of there and they said "I can see myself living in there and where I would put everything I have.  it all fits nicely in this house".  They could not say the same thing about the other two homes we looked at. 

I always tell my sellers to look at their home as if they were buying it for the first time.  Would you want to see what the other family looked like ?  Would you want to knwo their children?  How would you be viewing the home?  Would you even pay attention to the information  that may be important or would you be too curious looking at all the photos and paintings and items hanging on the walls?  Chances are you would leave the house and say it was nice...and then forget about it becuase all you woudl be remembering is the people who lived there.

So,  selling your home...make sure it is de-personalized.  You could lose a sale because it is not.