Tips for Showing a Home to Potential Buyers

Your first showing happens long before buyers arrive at your door!

The internet has drastically changed the way buyers shop for real estate. It used to be that the first time a potential buyer saw a home was when they made an appointment with a realtor to show them the home. Nowadays, once a home is entered into MLS it becomes immediately available to prospective buyers.

Buyers use the internet to “narrow down their search” and often only personally view the properties that interested them online. That is why having your home well staged for photos is so important. Buyer will look at the photos of your home online, in MLS, realtor.com, Zillow, and hundreds of other websites.

Here are some tips to make sure your home is camera ready!

Stage your home!

Remove the clutter and make your home feel open. If you collect something special, put your collection away for now. Open the curtains and let the sunshine it!

Help potential buyers feel at home!

Remove personal photographs, use neutral colors, freshly clean the windows and turn all the lights on. When taking outdoor photos, remove cars from the driveway & keeps pets out of the photos. This helps buyers see their belonging in the space, not yours.

Paint, Patch & Prosper!

A fresh coat of paint, all maintenance items complete, plants in every room, toilet seats down, removing dated fixtures and cleaning from top to bottom will make your home shine in photos!

Comfortable, Clean, Tranquil, Relaxing…picture yourself in any one of these rooms.

They are warm and inviting. The exterior of the home makes you want to see inside. The lighting is excellent and the rooms are clutter free. Simple touches like a bowl of fruit, flowers and lighting make these photos pleasing to the eye and senses.

A quick way to see how your home photographs is to take some interior & exterior photos on a bright day. Then look at the photos and see if they are clutter free, if they make the rooms look bright and roomy and if the pictures reflect what you want a buyer to see.

Making your home shine in photos is the first step in having a buyer schedule a personal showing of your home.

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