It is understandably inconvenient to live in your home without your “stuff ” — it’s like living in a hotel. However, it’s a necessary component of getting top dollar for your house. Extra furniture and items like books, magazines, CD collections, and hobby supplies add weight and visual distraction in a room. Your salt & pepper shaker collection is going to look like clutter, even if the buyer collects salt & pepper shakers. The more spacious your home appears, the more appealing it will be. Minimize as much as possible. You want the home shopper to see what your home has to offer, not guess about the potential or possibilities.
HOME REPAIRS
I strongly encourage sellers to complete any minor and cosmetic home repairs that you can afford to. These include things like broken light fixtures, replacing light bulbs, torn screens, cracked caulking, broken tiles, leaking faucets, cracked windows, loose doorknobs, etc.
While you and your family may have been perfectly content to live with these minor items, they are a red flag to prospective homebuyers. Home buyers generally suspect that homes with small items in disrepair will likely have bigger items that have not been addressed. It’s fairly easy to compile a list of things that need to be done and then pay a handyman to
complete this list of minor repairs in less than a day. I have a comprehensive list of reputable trades I can recommend to you.
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