Is Your Home Ready For The Market?

I have completed a series of blog posts to help you, Mr and Mrs Seller, get your home ready for the market.  Check out the posts referenced below.  Or, better yet, give me a call and let's meet. 

Part of the service I offer when I list your home is a personal consultation on all of these things!  As you read these posts, I hope you'll see how much analytical study has gone into these words of wisdom.

Creating The Best Curb Appeal

Do We Need To Repaint?

Painting For the Market - Color & finish choices

Show Me The Space, I'll Show You The Money! Creating visual space

Knick Knack You're Getting Whacked! - Removing the small obstacles

Vignettes that Sell - Highlighting features, selling benefits

Create the "Not So Lived In" Look - Selling the magic house

PRIORITIES, PRIORITIES - Which staging suggestions are most important?

It's Show Time!  (Final touches before a showing)
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If you're really interested in how buyers react to different homes,

CLICK HERE and check ut a photo album on the facebook page.  These are pictures from the MLS of homes on the market in Loudoun County, priced between $500-600K.  Fans made comments providing their reaction. 

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 the marketing and selling process! 

Vicky Chrisner

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Vicky Chrisner is a real estate sales consultant with Keller Williams Realty in Leesburg, VA 

Staging to Sell.... The Series Begins

You're putting your home on the market, you want the most money possible for your home in the least amount of time. I can help you get that. I've got a plan! But, I am going to need your help.

It goes without saying that if your home is obviously in disrepair then be prepared to sell it at a discount. Otherwise, make the repairs. Then, be willing to "earn" the extra dollars you wish to get from your home...

And with that little tidbit, I begin a series of posts about preparing your home for the market. Ready? Read on!

First up: Show Me The Space, I'll Show You The Money!

Also see prior posts:

Do We Need To Repaint?

Painting for the Market
Creating The Best Curb Appeal

Painting For The Market

If you’ve decided you need to repaint to get your home ready for the market, here are some quick and simple guidelines:

•  Make sure drywall repairs are complete before repainting.

• COLORS: Since you’re repainting, select from a neutral color palette. Currently, warm colors are “in”… so choose a light beige type color for the walls; and use white for the trim – this two tone look adds richness and makes the trim “pop”. Ceilings should always be painted white.  (See image on right.)

• TYPE: Flat paint is more forgiving of flaws in the drywall, so be sure most of your home is painted in flat paint (if you were repainting for your family you might choose a more durable, washable paint, but you’re painting for the market here). Flat goes everywhere EXCEPT the kitchens, bathrooms, doors and trim – those are all painted in white semi gloss. Ceilings are painted in flat white paint, if they need to be done.

Keep the end in mind – this just needs to spruce up your home enough to sell it, so it is not necessary to use the highest grade paint… you just need it to cover up what’s in place.

• If you don’t have to repaint all areas of your home, don’t. Very often, ceilings do not need to be repainted.

• If you’re repainting the whole house, consider repainting it all the same color to keep costs down, unless you have a floorplan that is “too open” and you need to do have color variations to define spaces. This becomes critically important in vacant homes, but even so, you can generally choose just two tones of the same color and use them strategically to define the spaces. Get a second opinion if you’re not sure if you need to do this.

• Do consider options for painting over paneling and wallpaper rather them having them removed.

Last but not least, please remember this: A bad paint job is worse than no paint job, and despite what you may think, very few people paint well. Please consider hiring a professional (not your brother who needs the work) to do this job, and hold them accountable for the end result and staying on schedule.