Best Tips to Sell your House for Top Dollar in Ottawa
My 5 Quick & Dirty Steps to Selling your Home!
1. Make sure your jewellery is impeccable
Curb appeal is really costume jewellery! No need to invest in gold & diamonds when it comes to polishing the exterior of your house to get it ready to sell. With minimal time and money you can impress potential buyers. First impressions, as you well know, are everything. Want to increase your home’s curb appeal without spending much money? Try these few simple steps:
- Replace that discoloured plastic doorbell
- Upsize your exterior light fixtures - entrance and garage door fixtures are notoriously too small
- Paint your front door, change out the hardware, and install a metal kick plate to hide dents
- Replace your outdated mailbox and/or get more modern house numbers
- Save a new entry rug exclusively for open houses and viewings
2. Make a reservation... in your bedroom
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- Purchase a new bed cover and throw pillows. Then buy even more matching throw pillows!
- Switch out your own sleeping pillows with oversized ones in crisp pillow cases
- Add bedside tables and lamps
- Pack up your family photos & personal belongings
3. Don’t Drink and Paint!
A bad paint job with sloppy cutting will make potential buyers over-scrutinize the other finishing details of your home. Regardless of whether or not there are drinks involved, if you can’t paint like a pro, then don’t! Do freshly painted walls really help a house to sell? Yes! Do poorly painted walls turn off potential buyers? Yes! Hire a professional painter, then kick back and relax knowing that you will impress potential home buyers with your freshly painted walls & trim!
4. Get Rid of That Smell!
Yes, we smell it. And so will everyone viewing your home. Febreze is this decade’s revolutionary secret weapon to undesirable household smells. Common culprits are:
- Pets
- Curtains
- Furniture
- Carpets
- Bedding
After thoroughly cleaning your house and refreshing fabrics, enhance the scent of your home with a mildly scented candle or Berger Lamp. Will your house sell quickly because it smells good? Perhaps. Will you have a hard time selling your house if it smells bad? Definitely.
5. Edit your Crap!
t all has to get boxed up anyway – doing it before showings and open houses will make your house more appealing to potential buyers.
- Pack up the personal items you’re keeping and put them in storage until the move
- Donate or sell your unwanted items
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Real Estate agents throw around words like staging and curb appeal when giving advice about how to get your house ready to sell. But really, what does that mean? Cutting through the lingo, here are the Top 5 things you need to do if you want to sell your house for maximum dollar in record time, here in Ottawa!
Warning: the advice in this list is not cushioned or padded – I’m here to tell it like it is. If you’re looking for someone that will give you straight-up advice about how to get your house ready to put on the market and will work hard for you to sell your Ottawa home, contact me today.
