3 Easy to Avoid Mistakes When Showing Your Home to Prospective Buyers

When it comes to showing your home to potential buyers, it's crucial not to make the same mistakes sellers have made in the past. We get it - the whole staging process can be overwhelming with countless tips flying your way. But here are three of the most common mistakes home sellers make and how you can avoid making them too!

When showing your home, you want buyers to envision themselves living there, not feel like they have intruded into someone else's life. That means putting away your everyday items like the toothbrushes, razors, shampoo, you get it. Home buyers can feel uncomfortable when they walk through a home and stumble upon highly personal items. You want the home buyer to feel welcomed.

This seems like a no brainer but, don't leave out valuables because people could steal them! But what about things that project value? Such as prized collections, expensive art work, family heirlooms, or other valued items? Leaving these things on display may indicate to a buyer that you could "afford" to take less for the home. It might make more sense that these items are stored and ready to be moved to their new home. 

We get it, you've been told to store away your personal items, valuables, collections, and where are you going to put it all? The closets and cabinets! But keep in mind that buyers are going to be looking in your closets and cabinets to make sure that they are suffient for their own storage needs. If these are filled to the brim or cluttered, it could make those spaces seem smaller than they are.  

Now that we have gone over some of the easy to avoid showing mistakes we can make, what more can you do to add value to your home? Staging your home properly is a really important step in getting your home ready to sell. Contact us today for some custom tips on how to stage your house and untap your home's true potential!