Selling Hint: Cleanliness Is Next To Soldliness
Here's a little selling hint for everybody who has property on today's market: Cleanliness Is Next To Soldliness.
Buyers like to walk into a property -- even one that is vacant -- and get the feeling that the property has been well maintained by a caring owner. How clean the property is has a lot to do with the mental impression the property makes on the buyer. The cleaner the better.
If you currently occupy the property, I suggest you tidy up every morning before heading out the door. You never know when a real estate agent is going to want to show the property to a buyer on short notice. Your best bet is to keep the place fairly clean all the time, and then just spruce it up a bit each morning. Quick and easy.
If your property is vacant, things can be a little more complicated. A vacant house can become a dirty house faster than you think. In Florida, we have bugs that die in the middle of the living room floor, dust that appears from nowhere to coat your counter tops, and mildew outbreaks that just seem to be part of the bathroom landscape. If the property is nearby, consider dropping by every other weekend for a few minutes and give it a quick once over -- shouldn't take very long if you keep some cleaning supplies and equipment in a pantry or the garage. If you now live far from the property, you might want to consider engaging a maid service to visit the property once a month and just straighten things up.
Don't rely on your real estate agent to do much of this kind of thing for you. They might pitch in if things start to look really bad and the property is vacant, but your real estate agent is usually a very busy business person and cleaning house is not what you hired them to do for you.
A clean property shows better and makes a more positive first impression. I believe that how well a property shows is related to how fast it sells and how much it sells for. I don't have any statistics about this, but I've been selling real estate long enough to see what happens. If you want it sold, keep it clean.
For more information on real estate in the Tampa Bay area, please visit my website at http://www.thestpeterealestatesite.com/.
Buyers like to walk into a property -- even one that is vacant -- and get the feeling that the property has been well maintained by a caring owner. How clean the property is has a lot to do with the mental impression the property makes on the buyer. The cleaner the better.
If you currently occupy the property, I suggest you tidy up every morning before heading out the door. You never know when a real estate agent is going to want to show the property to a buyer on short notice. Your best bet is to keep the place fairly clean all the time, and then just spruce it up a bit each morning. Quick and easy.
If your property is vacant, things can be a little more complicated. A vacant house can become a dirty house faster than you think. In Florida, we have bugs that die in the middle of the living room floor, dust that appears from nowhere to coat your counter tops, and mildew outbreaks that just seem to be part of the bathroom landscape. If the property is nearby, consider dropping by every other weekend for a few minutes and give it a quick once over -- shouldn't take very long if you keep some cleaning supplies and equipment in a pantry or the garage. If you now live far from the property, you might want to consider engaging a maid service to visit the property once a month and just straighten things up.
Don't rely on your real estate agent to do much of this kind of thing for you. They might pitch in if things start to look really bad and the property is vacant, but your real estate agent is usually a very busy business person and cleaning house is not what you hired them to do for you.
A clean property shows better and makes a more positive first impression. I believe that how well a property shows is related to how fast it sells and how much it sells for. I don't have any statistics about this, but I've been selling real estate long enough to see what happens. If you want it sold, keep it clean.
For more information on real estate in the Tampa Bay area, please visit my website at http://www.thestpeterealestatesite.com/.
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