{"id":3653,"date":"2018-03-30T18:20:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T01:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2024-05-28T11:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T18:38:56","slug":"tips-to-selling-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/tips-to-selling-your-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Busy Person\u2019s Tips to Selling Your Home Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s around 9 p.m. You\u2019re just heading home after a long day at work. You\u2019ve finished rounds at the hospital or are buttoning up a long case in court. You love your job and wouldn\u2019t have it any other way, but your responsibilities mean you have to delegate certain tasks.<\/p>\n

In everyday life, you prioritize. Maybe you send out laundry because if you don\u2019t you\u2019ll have loads sitting in the dryer for two weeks at a time. Maybe you UberEats your dinner a few times a week so you can spend your free time playing catch with your kids in the backyard instead of slaving away in the kitchen. Maybe you have a nanny who picks up the kids from school.<\/p>\n

Selling your house is no different. If you have a busy life filled with long hours and high-stress projects, you\u2019ll likely need to farm out some tasks to the pros if you\u2019re going to get the job done quickly and keep your sanity intact.<\/p>\n

Here are a few ideas to take the load off:<\/p>\n

Hire a Realtor<\/h2>\n

Say you are working on a particularly difficult cardio case in the O.R. You\u2019re in a pinch and aren\u2019t quite sure what your next steps should be. Do you wing it?<\/p>\n

No. You page the head of cardiology for a consult, or you pass off the responsibility completely to someone who has the expertise and proven track record to keep that ticker ticking.<\/p>\n

In real estate, it\u2019s not life or death, but finding a good Realtor is critical to how the patient (homeseller) fares. The housing industry is full of fraudulent loans, cash-for-houses lowball offers and weekend side-job real estate agents. Finding a high-performing agent in your area with the help of HomeLight<\/a> can make all the difference.<\/p>\n

Stephen FitzMaurice<\/a>, rockstar agent in Portland, Oregon, says, \u201cA good agent is not a designer or a contractor but can provide you with recommendations.\u201d Great agents know their industry and their community. They \u201chave a guy\u201d for everything, and are the best place to start if you\u2019re looking for someone to stage your home, clean your kitchen, landscape your yard, or host your children\u2019s birthday party (just kidding about this one).<\/p>\n

Ask for a Smart Lock Box<\/h2>\n

You\u2019ll find everything from old-school numeric combo lockboxes to BlueTooth-enabled sleeves that open with the swipe of a card. Some are about as useful as a Hide-a-Key rock and others are advanced enough to transmit valuable information about the buyer to the seller. If you know who\u2019s looking at your house, you can market it accurately.<\/p>\n

Say for example, your home is right next to the best school in town. You assume those interested in it will be families who have school-age children. However, after a dozen people do walk-throughs, you learn that actually most the people who are interested in your home are older empty-nesters, likely looking for something with a view in a gated community. This insight may completely change your marketing strategy.<\/p>\n

Though a good real estate agent will do the marketing research and advertising for you, access to buyer information keeps you involved in the process, even if just from your phone screen at the office.<\/p>\n

Enlist the Skills of a Stager<\/h2>\n

Walking into a vacant home is a lot like exploring the inside of an empty refrigerator \u2014 it doesn\u2019t smell like your house and it feels a little sterile. It\u2019s also pretty hard to visualize what living there would be like. Where would you sit for breakfast? How would you place the bed for proper Feng Shui? According to the National Association of Realtors\u2019 2015 Profile of Home Staging<\/a>, 81 percent of buyers surveyed indicated it was easier to visualize a house when it was staged.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not naturally a designer or you simply just don\u2019t have the time, hire a professional stager. Your agent might work with one directly, or have a reference for one. This professional service \u2014 ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars \u2014 typically pays for itself with a quick sell.<\/p>\n

According to the Real Estate Closing Association<\/a> houses that have been staged sell 90 percent faster than houses that aren\u2019t staged. Think about your savings on utilities.<\/p>\n

Schedule a Regular Cleaning Crew<\/h2>\n

Whether you use the cleaning lady your neighbor uses, or you find a company via Yelp or Angie\u2019s List, pay someone else to mop your floors. It\u2019s one of those super time-consuming tasks that someone else can do much better and much faster than you can, at a price that\u2019s simply worth it.<\/p>\n

First, have your home deep-cleaned; it\u2019ll cost you a few hundred bucks. Think about the dust on the window blinds, the too-often-skipped baseboards, the dried watermelon juice drippings on the front of the kitchen cabinets. A pro will vacuum every corner, shampoo the carpet and Magic Eraser all those kids\u2019 fingerprints and Frisbee marks off your glossy door jambs.<\/p>\n

Start with a clean slate and then upkeep is easier. If you\u2019re living in the house at the time of the sale, you\u2019ll need to pick up your laundry from the bathroom floor in the morning and because it\u2019s not The Westin, you\u2019ll also have to make your own bed. You can however, hire a cleaning crew to come in once a week and do all the maintenance cleaning.<\/p>\n

Keep a Landscaper on Call<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s what\u2019s on the inside that matters \u2026 but it\u2019s also what\u2019s on the outside. No house hunter is going to look twice at your property if they have to weedwack their way to the front door. Actually, they probably won\u2019t even look once if that\u2019s the case.<\/p>\n

First, go big. Hire tree trimmers. Rake debris. Ask a gardener to plant new colorful perennials in your front beds. Find a company to wash all the bird poop off your windows and siding. Powerwash your driveway.<\/p>\n

Once you get it into good selling shape, keeping it up is as easy as hiring a landscaper to come in once or twice a month. They can mow the lawn, rake the leaves and keep the garden beds weeded so your curb appeal is top notch until you close escrow.<\/p>\n

Selling a home as as busy person is no simple goal. It is possible though. Find a good Realtor, ask for service recommendations and then hire people to help. Don\u2019t they need you back at work anyway?<\/i><\/p>\n

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