Preparing Your Home For Sale
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The document provides a checklist for preparing a home for sale. It lists numerous interior and exterior tasks to make the home appealing to buyers such as cleaning, decluttering, fixing issues, and addressing odors. Tasks include cleaning carpets, removing personal items, replacing light bulbs, cleaning the kitchen and bathrooms, washing windows, landscaping the yard, and eliminating all signs of smoking to attract more buyers. The checklist is from a real estate agency in Austin, TX that provides their contact information for home sellers to get answers to any questions.
Preparing Your Home For Sale
- 1. Preparing Your Home For Sale The Checklist Friday, November 4, 2011
- 2. Interior Carpets cleaned and re-stretched; replaced if worn out House cleaned from top to bottom (ceiling fans, baseboards) Jewelry and small collections packed away Friday, November 4, 2011
- 3. Interior Windows washed - inside and out All closets cleaned and arranged Nail holes ?xed with touch-up paint Trim touched up where needed Friday, November 4, 2011
- 4. Interior All burned-out light bulbs replaced; use higher wattage in rooms with only one ?xture Doorknobs and hardware polished; brass ?xtures replaced Personal photos removed (leave a few for ambience) Friday, November 4, 2011
- 5. Interior No stuffed trophy heads or animal collections of any kind One toy box - the rest packed away All other boxes removed - only furniture on the ?oor Friday, November 4, 2011
- 6. Kitchen Remove all appliances from counter tops Make sure there’s no food left out Friday, November 4, 2011
- 7. Kitchen Take all magnets, papers and food off front and top of the refrigerator Replace stove drip pans and burner covers Friday, November 4, 2011
- 8. Bath Remove all personal items from counter tops Friday, November 4, 2011
- 9. Exterior Remove all window screens; place in garage for buyer’s view Place pot ?owers by front door, sidewalks, landscaping beds Add mulch in landscape beds Power-wash patios, walkways and driveway Friday, November 4, 2011
- 10. Garage Clean out garage and remove all “extras” Leave only tools, lawn equipment, bikes and cars Show that at least one car ?ts in garage Rent mini storage if both garages are full Friday, November 4, 2011
- 11. Caution! Friday, November 4, 2011
- 12. Pets... should not be in the home during showings! Friday, November 4, 2011
- 13. No Smoking! 75% of buyers will NOT buy a smoker’s home! Repaint, get new carpets, remove ashtrays - eliminate all signs of smoke Friday, November 4, 2011
- 14. Goldwasser Real Estate Austin, TX Call anytime with your questions Philip Myers (512) 567-9541 David Schneider (512) 638-6585 www.shadyhollowaustin.net Friday, November 4, 2011