Tips On Preparing Your Home When Selling FSBO Pt 2

Think Your Ready To Sell, Aren’t You Forgetting Something?

Once you have followed all FSBO the steps in part one, you are ready to progress to the outside of your home. Street appeal is very important when it comes to selling your home. Have you ever heard of first impressions? Well the front of your home is your potential buyers first impression! If the front of your home looks shabby they are likely to keep on driving and not even bother looking at your home.

Start off by removing all of the rubbish, or things in your front and back yard that doesn’t need to be there. Do a big clean up, and then get the mower out and mow all of your lawns. Once you have done this you will be able to see what areas of your yard needs your attention.

Pretty Sells

A well-tended yard attracts buyers. Think back to when you bought the house, you can almost guarantee that the yard was filled with well cared for gardens, with not a dead thing in sight. You need to get your front and backyard into shape.

Start off by making sure that you have clean lines between what is a garden bed, and what is lawn. Trim your hedges, and weed all of your gardens, so it looks tidy. If you have dead plants or planters with dead things in them remove or replace them.

Nothing makes a home look more inviting than flowers. If you are selling your home FSBO in the spring or summer annual flowers are sure-fire winners for giving a home street appeal. Carefully choose a color scheme, and begin planting your annuals in your garden beds. If you have concreted areas, try brightening them up with planter pots filled with colorful annuals.

Not only will the annuals make your yard look like a million bucks they are also very cost effective, and fast growing. About a month before you put your home on the market make sure you get your plants in the ground this will give them the time to get established, as well as start flowering for you.

Think Your Ready To Sell?

Look over your home, and ask yourself if it looks good enough to sell. If you answer yes then it is time for you to get a second opinion. Ask friends, family or even your neighbors to come through your home. Show it to them as if they were your potential buyers.

This will achieve two things for you. First of all you will get some practice in, since you will be selling your home FSBO you will need to polish up on your selling techniques. The second thing that this will achieve is you will be able to ask people for their honest feedback on what they thought of the home. Once you have done this you are ready to put your home on the market and sell it FSBO.