Most Common Seller Problems!
SELLER’S LOSE MONEY … when they don’t PROPERLY PREPARE the home for sale!
1. Common Household Odors
Homeowners become desensitized to the unpleasant odors they live with on a daily basis in their homes. This includes pet odors, cigarette smoke, and stale cooking odors. Hire a professional cleaning service to do a detailed, deep cleaning. We have a Commercial-Grade Ozone Generator to help eliminate tough odors.
2. Dirty Carpets | Rugs | Floors
One of the most visible areas of a home is the flooring. Remove all Large Room Rugs, Carpet Runners, and Small Area Rugs in the house. Rugs hold pet dander, urine, cigarette smoke, and stale cooking odors. Rugs diminish room size and conceal attractive flooring. Replace the dirty wall-to-wall carpet with new, inexpensive wall-to-wall carpet, and scrub clean any stained tile floors and grout. Super clean returns more in the Sold Price!
3. Dark Color Wall Paint | Painted Wall Artwork | Wallpaper
Paint is an inexpensive way to clean, neutralize, and bring value. Consider painting the outside trim, entrance door, interior walls, moldings, and doors. Fill in nail holes from pictures before painting. Paint all interior walls the same neutral color, such as light grey, to appeal to all buyers. Only use a flat-based paint (never eggshell or gloss-based paint) on interior walls to hide the surface imperfections. Remove peeling wallpaper and paint. Paint over any exotic wall artwork.
4. Clutter | Excess Stuff
Clutter is a big buyer turn-off. Remove the daily mail build-up, shoes, and last season’s clothes, knick-knacks, excess furniture, wall pictures, ceiling hangings, potted plants, outdated window treatments, and blinds. No refrigerator magnets, family photos, kitchen counter appliances, paperwork, and boxes of stuff. De-Clutter and then organize what’s left!
5. Rodents | Wood Destroying Organisms | Insects
If there is any evidence or symptoms of mice, rats, roaches, spiders, bees, ants, or WDO, immediately contact a pest control company to have them properly eliminated. After the treatment, do a thorough vacuum and clean-up in the house, garage, and attic to remove rodent droppings or insect wings. Remove all rat/mouse traps, cages, and insecticides from the house, yard, garage, and attic.
6. Poor Landscaping
Buyers make a “judgment within the first 5 minutes” of seeing the exterior of a home. If landscaping, especially in the front yard, is overgrown, messy, or unmaintained, spruce it up with some small, inexpensive shrubs, brightly colored flowers, and fresh dark mulch. Sellers get a 100% ROI for Great Curb Appeal!
7. Grubby, Dingy, Unclean
Deep clean every nook and cranny, right down to the tiny nit-picky details like wiping down all the light switch covers, door trim, and cabinets. Soft goods, such as carpets, rugs, and window treatments, should be dry-cleaned and deodorized. Clean windows and glass sliding doors inside and out. Super Clean sells fast and brings Big Bucks!