If your property is listed and your realtor is bringing prospective buyers to see it, there’s a myriad of tips to consider that might impress a prospective buyer.
Here’s one of them:
While there’s a tendency to want your house to look “homey” that’s not necessarily the right approach. The picture on the mantle of your children and grandchildren is part of who you are, but not part of who your buyers are. The trophy you won from your days as an athlete is a happy memory to you, but means nothing to somebody interested in purchasing your house.
In other words, it’s a good idea to simplify the way your home looks…a more insensitive way of saying might be to de-personalize it.
You want a buyer to be able to picture themselves in your home, to see their family living in it, to see themselves sitting on that comfy love seat. You want your home to look terrific, of course, you just don’t want to be seen as part of it.
Maybe it’s a subtlety, but anything you can do to help an interested visitor imagine that this is their home enhances the possibility that they’ll make an offer.