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7 low course do-it-yourself tips to prepare your house for sale
that's the topic of my next video
low-cost tips to get your house ready for sale that's the topic of today's
video hello everybody my name is Mark Schreier
and i'm a licensed real estate agent right here on long island
if you're looking to get your house ready for sale but you don't want to
spend too much money and at the same time increase the marketability
and bottom line sales price then this video is for you
i'm gonna share with you tips that will get the job done
and not take too much of a hit to your pocket that's right
seven tips seven tips that you can do doesn't take too much effort doesn't
take a lot of um handyman skills as well so let's get
started oh and by the way if you're new to my channel
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and let's start with tip number one first thing you need to do they always
say curb appeal is the biggest thing when it
comes to selling a house you only get one chance to impress that
buyer that comes to the door or these days to impress the buyer
online before they even come to the door is
much more important in the day of virtual open houses so
curb appeal what can you do that doesn't cost too much money
but gets that job done well the first thing is clean up your yard
if you have a lot of weeds and weeds growing out of the um
you know in between the cement slabs clean them out
if you have some shrubs or if you don't have shrubs
get some low-carb shrubs from some of the
local home gardening centers and put a little landscaping even if you
put them in pots and put them around the property you
want to basically make the house look as nice as possible
so curb appeal gardening is a big thing if your lawn
hasn't been cut cut it if you uh your the bushes that you have around your
property or growing wild maybe hire a landscaper to do a spring
or cleanup just to get the house ready to show well
because like they said you only get one chance for that first impression
number two and this is so very important and so many people don't even
think of it clear the clutter well what do i mean by
that everybody knows what clutter is all that stuff that you have all over
your desk all over the kitchen all over the bathroom that's just been
laying there and when you get around to it you're gonna go throw it out and
clean it up all that stuff needs to be removed
because remember you are selling your house to a
potential buyer if they come into your property and it
looks cluttered you're going to turn them off right away
and you don't want to do that so clear the clutter very important tip
number two tip number three home repairs you know
that broken door handle that you've been
waiting for months and months and when you get around to it
if it's on the honey-do list or you're gonna call the home repair
a handy person and you just haven't gotten around to do it
do it those little home repairs can really
turn somebody off a lot of people have difficulty
looking beyond the broken doorknob and they see a broken doorknob
and automatically this house is not for them because they can't see past it
that was tip number three tip number four
very important again you're selling a house that you've lived in
you want people to think picture themselves living in the house and
making that house theirs so clean clean clean everything in that
house needs to be as clean as possible the last thing somebody
wants to do is walk into a dirty house particularly
now with this pandemic that's going on if they see dirt they're going to get
turned off from the house so make sure you clean it if you're not
good with that hire a professional cleaning service and
have them go through every single room including the basement
and the garage and the backyard also and make the house
as clean as possible if you have siding on the property power
wash if it looks dirty you'll be surprised
how a good power washing on a deck on
even the bricks or pavers can really give a very positive first impression
and all-around impression of your property
so clean the inside clean the outside clean the windows that's tip number four
tip number five the house could be spotless the curb
appeal can be great but if all of a sudden you walk in that
house and oh my god i just made this great shrimp scampi the night before
and the house smells like shrimp scampi well when the buyer comes in
they might not like shrimp scampi so you have to make sure it has a
neutral or no order whatsoever a good trip there a good trick they
always say real estate is to um bake some chocolate chip cookies
everybody loves homemade chocolate chip cookies
and i don't mean like the candle i mean bake the cookies have them out on the
counter and that particular that that good smell
in the house is actually a positive and it can offset
the bad odors but definitely open the windows try to get
those odors out turn up some air purification you know if you have an air
filter or something like that that purifies the air
then bake those cookies if you don't have the cookies
light a candle uh but get those ugly odors out of the property it is
definitely a turn off to a lot of people unless they like shrimp scampi but i
don't know about 9 10 11 a.m in the morning that could be a
turn off de-personalize yes those pictures on the
walls of all the family events not a positive remember you have to
think as a potential buyer you go into a property and you see
their family on the walls they're thinking that this is your house and
even though they know it's your house they're trying to see the house is
theirs and if they can't get past that because you have all your
family stamps pictures all over the walls that's not a
positive okay to have one or two pictures
but to have a whole gamut of pictures all over the place not a good thing so
de-personalize your house and get all those pictures off the walls and
with that being said a lot of times if you get all those
pictures off the walls you start noticing that the paint has
faded around the pictures and when you take
the pictures off oh that's what my paint color look like
so paint where needed and that might mean go through a whole room if you had
a lot of pictures in the living room and you take those pictures off and it
looks like spots everywhere that's not a positive
get a neutral color paint if you're handy enough to paint yourself
paint that living room or family room a neutral color
if you have uh areas where you've you know taken pictures off
and you need to do a little spackle do that there's tons of youtube videos on
how to do that properly if you're not that good hire a local
handy person to come in and take care of all those minor
painting needs now do you have to paint the whole interior of the house
i'd say no but if you want to that's a plus particularly if it's a lot
of really strong colors that turn people off you want to make
neutral colors like beiges and whites off and again remember some people can't
see past the minor things in the house and you
don't want to reduce your buyer pull so make sure that you touch it where
needed hire a professional painter a handyman if you
want to go the extra mile and get those things taken care of so
number seven the last one like i mentioned is
painting the house so let's re let's go through the seven real quick
you want to get your house ready for sale you want to do it yourself or low
cost what can you do number one curb appeal
number two clear the clutter three make the minor repairs
four clean clean claim five pleasant house smells you wanna get rid
of those bad odors in the house six is depersonalized all the pictures
we've mentioned seven is paint where needed now i hope
these help i hope they were helpful uh if
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and i will see you on the next video thanks for watching
