INTRODUCTION - Have you been considering selling your home in the near future?  If you have, then it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take a good long look at your home, using an unbiased eye. 

After all, a clean, appealing, well maintained home has much better odds of selling, selling for more, and selling faster.

When looking at your house, the thing you need to keep repeating to yourself is that “first impressions are lasting impressions.”  This couldn’t be truer when it comes to selling real estate. 

01. OUTSIDE HOME - If you take the effort to ensure that the outside of your home is appealing, then it will make certain that potential buyers will want to look at the interior as well.  Therefore, it’s obvious that you should work on the outside of your home for precisely that reason. 

So let’s get started with the tips…

02. INSIDE HOME - Now that the outside has been adequately beautified, and you’ve mastered curb appeal, it’s time to move on to the inside of your home. 

Just like there was a lot of little things you could do to make an overwhelming difference to the outside of your home, there’s lots of great projects you can tackle inside, without having to spend a great deal of money.

While the whole home is very important, the two primary areas for sprucing up should be your kitchen and bathroom. 

03. ROOMS OF THE HOUSE -In each of your rooms, you should have three primary goals:

1. Depersonalize the room by taking away family pictures, removing everything from your refrigerator and other similar surfaces, and taking posters and trophies out of kids’ rooms.
   
2. Clear away high-traffic areas of excess furnishings and other belongings, to give the highest impression of space and comfort.
   
3. Highlight the primary features of every room, making sure that they have not been hidden or obscured by furnishings, plants, or other belongings.  Such primary features include:

04. RAPID FIRE - Now that you’ve gone through the main rooms of your house, and know what will be expected overall, here are some final tips to give your home that extra polish, and set you on the right path towards a fast, easy, and successful sale.

Clean your windows until they absolutely sparkle.  This is entirely necessary.  Use a razor blade to scrape off any paint splatters.  Use ammonia and water to wash the windows, and then buff them until they shine. 

You shouldn’t need to be told to replace any cracked window panes.

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