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Affordable Ideas to Stage your Bathrooms well for a Home Sale – Part 1
Affordable ideas to stage your bathrooms – Part 1This is the first post in a four post series. For details on inexpensive staging ideas for your bathroom, keep following this blog.
How many times have you cringed to take a peek and check if the bathroom was clean? Entering an unkempt bathroom can be quite a stomach churner and can put people off very easily. The size of a bathroom can be important for some, but what has more value is how clean it seems. The level of bathroom maintenance can serve as a good parameter to gauge how well-kept or ill-kept a house is.
If you’re looking for some inexpensive ideas to stage and present your bathroom more effectively, you’ve come to the right place. For more inexpensive ideas on preparing your house for a sale, visit our other blogs.
A spotless clean bathroom done up elegantly with soft lighting.
Getting Ready for Staging:
Even before you begin putting things in place, you need to ensure that your bathroom space looks sparkly and squeaky clean.
Bleaching: That’s right! Start with bleaching and scrubbing all the scruffy areas. If you do not like bleaching agents, you could look for organic substitutes. Let the bleaching and cleaning agents do their job by letting them soak in all the grime and dirt. Scrub the entire space from top to bottom, till you’re satisfied with the end result.
Mold and Mildew: The steam from a hot bath could initiate the growth of mold and mildew in your bathroom. This is an overgrowth of fungus, and is not just unappealing to look at, but could also cause allergies for some people. Make sure that you look for them in crevices and corners, in and around the tiling area. Sometimes, mold also seems to accumulate on painted areas. Also ensure that you keep your bathroom dry as often as possible.
If you are looking for professional help to sell your home, don’t hesitate to contact us. That’s what Express Homebuyers is here for. In the past five years, we’ve sold over 800 homes within the DC metro area, and we’re not done yet! If we can’t sell your house in 60 days, we guarantee to buy it from you, no matter what the condition.
Just call us at [dynamic_phone] or visit our website to chat with a representative.
Need more tips on how to sell your home fast? Check out our list of 22 tips.
For more ideas on staging your bathroom for a home sale, keep watching out for this space.
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7 Mistakes People Make When Trying to Sell their House – Part 3
This is the third post in a three blog series. For a heads-up on mistakes to avoid while selling a house, visit: Part 1 and Part 2.
Perceptions about your property can be a huge contributor in making or breaking a sale. But those are not the only mistakes people make.
Here are a couple more popular errors that many homeowners commit. You need to pay attention to them too…
5. Making the House Inaccessible
Buying a house is an expensive purchase, and a potential buyer is less likely to buy a home they haven’t seen. You need to have a home that is well exposed and visible in the market. You need to make decisions on whether you want to keep an open house or not.
If you work closely with a reliable real-estate company like our sister-concern Express Realty Services who will ensure that people visiting your house have gone through pre-approval and will see your house without disturbing your schedule.
6. Making your own marketing decisions
While preparing your house for a sale is very important, one of the things that can get you to a closing is often neglected – How you market your home for a sale. Do you have a marketing plan in place to reach out to potential buyers?
It is indeed crucial that the marketing decisions are left to the experts. At Express Homebuyers, we believe in quality service, so we spend close to a million dollars per year in putting our marketing strategy and execution in place. Right from listing to closing, we create brochures and supporting marketing materials to promote your home. In the past five years we’ve sold over 800 homes within the DC metro area. We can help you list your house for sale. If we can’t sell your house in 60 days, we guarantee to buy it from you, no matter what the condition.
Just call us at [dynamic_phone] or visit our website to chat with a representative.
This series will be continued. For more insight on what mistakes to avoid while selling your house, continue to read our blogs.
If you have any tips or suggestions that you’d like to share, please feel free to comment on this blog post.