Preparing Your Home For Sale

First impressions make a significant impact on a buyer's decision-making process!

Once your home goes on the market, it becomes a product. Home Styling or Staging simply allows you to highlight the best of your home and de-emphasize its flaws. It's not about decorating, but actually turning your home into a model, to appeal to the broadest range of prospective buyers. The goal is to make people feel like they could live there, and the best way to do this is to "neutralize" the surroundings.

Try out these helpful styling tips taken from Setting the Stage - REALTOR® Magazine Online. They've compiled the best tips from stagers and real estate pros—things you can do for little or no expense—to put a home in prime showing shape.

Clear out closets and clutter—sellers can give away or pack up toys, linens, and small kitchen appliances to store offsite. Buyers are also forgiving of storage boxes neatly tucked away in a garage or basement.
Focus most on the most visible areas—the foyer, kitchen, living room, master bedroom, and family room.
De-personalize the home by removing photos, mementos, and dated items.
Use plants in colorful pots or inexpensive wicker baskets to fill in empty spaces.
Look to home catalogs for little details on beautifying the home. For instance, group books, pictures, and objets d’art appealingly on bookcases.
Try angling one or two pieces of furniture slightly and move furniture 4 inches to 6 inches from the wall to create more interesting room spaces.
Put away large collections— porcelains, plates, and so on.
Remove valuables, prescription medicine, collectibles, and breakables.
Trim trees, prune shrubs, and make sure the lawn is mowed and watered regularly.
In summer, turn on the sprinklers for five minutes, 30 minutes before the open house. It makes the lawn and driveway sparkle.
Refrain from cooking anything that leaves a distinctive odor, such as fish, garlic, or cabbage.
Hire a professional service to clean the home, including the carpets and the windows.
Set the dining room table with attractive linens, dishes, and stemware.
Arrange fresh or silk flowers throughout the home.
Light a fire in the fireplace in fall and winter.
A mirror in a pretty frame can make a small room feel more open.
Use as much natural light as possible. Add extra lamps in dark rooms or corners.
Make functional repairs—fix dripping faucets, sticking doors, and broken fences.
Bring in another pair of eyes—even if it’s not a professional stylist. The person may see problems you and have missed.

Keller Williams Realty Alaska Group

101 West Benson Blvd. Suite 503
Anchorage, AK 99503
Office: (907) 351-9434
Fax: (866) 565-5062

Privacy Policy

Victoria Brink is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. Neither Victoria or the associates will sell, share, or rent this confidential information to others. Your privacy is the primary issue for Brink & Associates.

CONTACT POLICY

By submitting personal information such as name, address, phone number, email address and/or additional data, the client/prospect gives permission to Victoria & Ron Brink to contact client/prospect by phone, U.S. Postal System, or email. Permission extends whether or not client/prospect is participating in a state, federal or other "do not contact" program of any type.

About Victoria Brink and Associates Anchorage and Eagle River Alaska Real Estate Website: The www.AKHOMESOLD.com web site provides Anchorage, Eagle River, Wasilla, Palmer, Alaska real estate information and resources to guide homeowners, homebuyers and real estate investors through the process of selling and buying a house, condo or other realty property in the Anchorage and Eagle River Alaska area. Victoria and Ron Brink has services to help you get the best value for your Anchorage and Eagle river Alaska home and this website offers home buyers and home sellers a superior comparative market analysis (CMA), a way to view real estate and MLS IDX listings including virtual tours, prepare your home for sale, and more. Investors looking for real estate investment properties to invest in need look no farther. Anyone selling a home, buying a home or seeking housing can learn more about our realty services, and will appreciate working with a anchorage and eagle river alaska REALTOR who knows the area so well. Through trusted partners, we also provide real estate and financial services to consumers looking for houses for sale or selling their home in Anchorage and Eagle River Alaska, such as mortgages, credit history, new homes, foreclosures and other services. If you've already tried to go the for sale by owner (FSBO) route and find you are needing a partner who you can trust in the sale of your most precious asset, Victoria and Ron brink with Brink and Associates at Keller Williams realty can take care of your special needs. It really doesn't matter if you spell it REALTOR, Realator or Realter, realty, realety or reality, real estate or realestate, Victoria and Ron Brink speak your language.

Anchorage Alaska homes for sale www.akhomesold.com www.victoriabrink.com

www.alaskahomesold.com