It's Easy to Sell a House...Right? : April 2020 Kitchissippi Issue
4/16/2020It’s Easy to Sell a House...Right?
I recently sold a million-dollar property in 7 days, it was easy! It had the right number of bedrooms, great curb appeal, was in a desirable neighborhood and sold for a record-breaking price for the neighborhood. What people don’t know, is that behind the SOLD sign was months of planning and hard work by both the sellers and myself, the agent.
Like every good result, we started with a plan. First comes the cleanse. Not the exorcism kind but rather the contents. Old clothes, furniture and what turned out to be a treadmill, not a drying rack, was donated, sold or trashed. Then it’s time to fix that broken kitchen cabinet, repair the plumbing leak and tighten that loose handrail you’ve been meaning to get to for 20 years. Painting, removing old carpets and even changing that hard to open front door came next. Nothing like a difficult front door to make an instant bad impression with a potential buyer. After everything's been sorted through, donated and freshened up, it’s staging time. This doesn’t mean filling the house with rental furniture. It could be as simple as working with what you have and rearranging things to show off the space better.
Advertising the property for sale is almost the final step. It's not just the realtor sign on the lawn, it’s promoting your property through social media, print, MLS, realtor.ca and local, international and Global publications, everything to get your home maximum exposure. With the house looking great and the for sale sign on the lawn, all that’s left are open houses and private showings. Before you know it, a SOLD sign is posted on the lawn.
You can tell your friends and neighbors, “Yeah, the sign went up and before we knew it, the house SOLD…easy eh?”