It’s getting tougher and tougher to sell your property at a good price.
By: Lisa Roberts
The real estate market is more competitive than ever, and it’s only going to get tougher to sell your property. So, it is no wonder people are scrambling to find any way to make their property look better and more appealing to buyers. Usually, people turn to extensive home renovations such as kitchen and bathroom remodeling or adding an extra room or a pool. Unfortunately, there isn’t a high ROI on these home updates. As it turns out, simple updates such as cleaning, decluttering, fresh painting, simple landscaping, or fixing broken appliances are very effective when it comes to selling a house faster. So, in this article, we are going to focus on how decluttering can help you sell your home faster. This may be surprising but decluttering your home before putting it on the marker is one of the best decisions you can make.
Decluttering gives you an illusion of a bigger space.
Decluttering makes it look bigger
No matter how big and spacious your home is, if it’s overfilled with unnecessary stuff, it will look much smaller than it really is. And the goal when you are putting your home on the market is to make it look as big as possible. So instead of wasting money on kitchen remodels, what you should do is free your home of extra things. Decluttering will not make your home bigger, but it will give the illusion that it is. For example, you don’t need two couches in your living room or many chairs in the dining room. Kitchen counters should be empty except for basic kitchen appliances. Bathrooms shouldn’t be filled with too many toiletries; they should be spotlessly clean and organized. According to professionalmover.ca, many people hire them for their storage services, specifically to solve this issue. You can put those things in a storage unit instead of throwing them away if you don’t want to part with them.
It removes you from the picture
Another way in which decluttering can help you sell your home faster is that it takes you out of the equation. People don’t like to go to an open house and look at the house filled with the personal belongings of the last owner. They want to be able to imagine themselves living in that house, and that’s really hard to do if your pictures, books, or clothes are still there. People will sooner buy a house if they can picture themselves in it in the future. So before an open house day, it is very important that you take all your personal belongings (clothes, jewelry, family photos, books, CDs, records, etc.) out of the house.
It makes your home look new
One more benefit of decluttering is that it makes your house looks newer. An overstuffed home usually looks older and less shiny. When you clean and declutter a home, it gives it a new fresh look. Especially if you also add a new layer of paint. These two very simple and affordable updates make a huge difference. They help cover up the fact that someone lived there for many years. And that is very appealing to potential buyers.
Decluttering helps you find potential issues
Have you ever moved a couch or sofa after a long time and seen an ugly hole in the wall or peeling paint? You probably are, and you’re not the only one. And then imagine the scenario that potential buyers look around your house on the day of the open house and accidentally come across it. That would leave a disastrous first impression on them, and you wouldn’t be able to do anything to change it. In addition to taking up a lot of space, many things often hide various problems in the house. After decluttering your house, you will be able to thoroughly inspect all the hidden parts of your home and see if something needs to be repaired. That way, you will be sure that you have done absolutely everything you could to make your house look its best and to leave a good first impression on buyers.
Decluttering can help you sell your home faster because it makes staging easier.
Decluttering can help you sell your home faster because it makes staging easier
People often hire professionals to stage their house before presenting at the open house day. This is a very common practice that can be very effective. Stagers are people with a lot of experience and will do everything necessary to make your house look the best possible. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t help them with that. If you declutter the house before the stagers come, it will make their job much more manageable. The space will look bigger and cleaner, enabling them to organize and decorate your house more quickly. It isn’t easy to envision how to stage a home if it is cluttered with various unnecessary things.
Prepares you for leaving your old home
This may not be a direct way in which decluttering helps you sell your house faster, but it is related to it in one way. Quite often, people sabotage the sale of their own house because it is difficult for them to part with the place they have called home for a long time. This is because they have not yet fully accepted the fact that it is no longer their home. One way to speed up this process is to take their personal belongings out of the house. It is a symbolic gesture and a way to say goodbye to their old home. Once you accept the fact that you are moving out of that house, you will be more motivated to try and sell your property faster. In addition to this, decluttering is very important if you are downsizing when moving. It is good to have a plan in place and get rid of unnecessary stuff before leaving your old home and moving into a smaller new one.
Simple updates like cleaning and decluttering are more beneficial than a big house remodel.
In conclusion
As you can see, there are many ways in which decluttering can help you sell your home faster. Not only does it make your home look bigger and fresher it also helps you find any potential issues that you didn’t see before. In addition to that, it gives you closure and helps you say goodbye to your old home. So, you should skip big house remodels and focus on simple things such as cleaning and decluttering before putting your house on the market.