After deciding to sell your house, there are four phases to getting your home sold. We are here to walk you through them, to detail what they are and what they mean to get your home sold.
The four phases to getting your home sold are:
- Purge
- Clean
- Pictures
- Listing
Purge
During the Purge phase, the key objective is to cull the clutter, by eliminating the items that will not make the move to your next location with you. This is when you get your Marie Kondo on! We like to think of it this way:
- Discard items with no remaining useful life
- Donate items with remaining useful life, that have lower resale value.
- Sell items that have a high resale value.
Discarding items is self-explanatory, however, a donation can be two-fold. It could mean
- giving the items away to friends or family
- Rehoming them to an organization like
- Goodwill,
- Salvation Army, or
- Local churches and charities.
Selling items on social media sites like Facebook Marketplace, Letgo/Offerup, and eBay can at the very least get you a bit of folding cash for your move. This also helps to reclaim some of the cost of items that once had value to you and your family.
Clean
Now that we have reduced some of its clutter, what remains are items that will eventually be packed and moved to your new home. With that said it is time to start cleaning.
During the Clean phase, the key objective is to clean and organize your remaining items in preparation for pictures and listing. Choose an area in your home that will not be photographed. This is to store items in your “Keep” category.
Before you start on projects you think need to get done, we would recommend you get a home inspection.
Why a home inspection
A home inspection, as we said in my article “A Crack in Winter’s Crown,” is one of the first things a new buyer, will do. So why not play offense, get ahead of their requests, and know what needs to get done? This will give you a list of projects, and a clearer timeline for when you can get your home ready to be sold.
After the home inspection and projects, it has been completed, it is time to complete the cleaning of the home and final organization.
Pictures
Are you ready for your photoshoot?
Once you get to the Picture phase the fun is about to begin. The goal of this phase is to take pictures of your home that make a buyer want to see more. This phase does not only include still pictures but can also include video and 360 video walkthroughs using tools like Matterport.
The better the pictures, the better the experience potential buyers will have. Of course, you can take pictures with your cellphone, or you can have a professional do it and make your home look spectacular.
Listing
We have reached the final phase of getting your home sold. The goal of this phase is to market your home to get it from “For Sale” to “SOLD!”
In the Listing Phase we market your home on as many channels as possible, including but not limited to, the Multiple Listing Service and conducting strategic open house events.
Give us a call to set up a listing presentation to see all the steps we take and the tools we use to get your home sold. We at the Ideal Solutions Team, take pride in helping you find your Ideal Solution in Real Estate. Let’s get it sold together! Contact us Today
