Okay. you are ready to get your home on the market for the spring selling season. Kids will be out of school shortly and you like to move during the summer so as to have as little disruption as possible with school. What do I do with all my things?
First, you need to take down all your personal items from the house and begin to box them up. After you have boxed up your items and are getting your home ready to sell staging it is vital today. But where do you put all the things you have boxed up? rent a storage unit. the cost is minimal when you factor in the time it will sell versus how long it may sit on the market because you have too many things in your home.
I always preach to my sellers about staging a home and making it look larger and cozy at the same time. too many times I will show homes or have sellers who have had their home on the market for six months or longer and no offers. One recently I had this situation with. The problem was not the price or the staging of the house. In fact, I was perplexed as to why they had no offers and quite a bit of showings. When I arrived at the house and did a walk through with the seller I understood immediately why this house never received an offer.
They took all there personal stuff and extra furniture and placed it in the spare bedroom they were not using. Well you could barely walk in the room and could not get any idea of the space in the room with all the items in there. I was completely turned off by the amount of items in the room. I could not gauge the size of the room and had no idea there was even a closet in the room.
I advised them to rent a storage unit and place all the items in there plus any unneccessary items and toys they had around the hosue and yard. I told them that is probably the reason they are not receiving any offers on the house.
Well, what a difference it made when they did that. The house looked more spacious, and the room was significantly larger than I even had anticipated. The house was on the market for less than a month and a previous family that looked at it came back and reviewed it again. This time they made an offer....
So, if you are trying to sell your home and have to box up items and have no place to put them. rent a storage unit. The minimal cost will save you over the long run in getting your home sold today.
Dave diCecco
Realotr/Agent
www.davedicecco.com
Great post Dave! When we put our house on the market, we emptied out our basement, garage, and tons of stuff from the house, and it looked practically like a model. We had an offer within a month, and had to move into a hotel in Charlotte for two weeks because the house we bought didn't close on time. (So the rest went into storage too!)
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