Preparing to Show Your Home
First impressions are lasting impressions. You will want to make sure that
buyers looking at your home are left with the best possible impression. Your
Sutton Group Premier Realty Real Estate Professional can help you achieve that
goal.
Exterior
- House exterior in good repair
- House number easy to read
- Eaves troughs, down spouts and soffits in good repair
- Garage/car port clean and tidy
- Litter picked up
- Cracked or broken window panes replaced
- Lawns and hedges cut and trimmed, garden weeded and edged
- Walks shoveled and salted
- Boot tray inside front door
- Doorbell and door hardware in good repair
- Porch and foyer clean and tidy
Interior
- Chipped plaster and paint touched-up
- Doors and cupboards properly closed
- Leaky taps and toilets repaired
- Burned out light bulbs replaced
- Squeaky doors oiled
- Mirrors, fixtures, and taps cleaned and polished
- Seals around tubs and basins in good repair
- Floors cleaned, garbage containers emptied
- Inside of closets and cupboards neat and tidy
- Appliances cleaned
- Counter tops neat and polished
- All lights turned on
- Air conditioner turned on in warm weather
- Halls and stairs cleaned
- Drapes opened during daylight
- Carpets freshly vacuumed
- Fresh flowers in various rooms
- Jewellery and valuables locked safely away or taken with you
- Valuable property, such as objects of art, vases and figurines out of reach,
out of sight, or locked away
- Pets absent, where possible, or contained during the showing, and litter
boxes clean
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