Selling Your House During the Winter Months
Here are a few thoughts if you are trying to sell your home during the winter. Keep these items in mind and help sell your house when your competition is a cold vacant REO or forclosed property.
- Turn the lights on and open the drapes and blinds. Lights help make a space not only more inviting but makes them look bigger. Safety first, turn on outdoor lights as well.
- Control the smells, a challenge year around. In the winter it’s hard to open the windows to allow the smells to dissipate.
- Encourage daylight showings. This should be obvious enough. When the sun is out it’s safer, you can see more and it encourages potential buyers to look everywhere including the yard.
- Don’t overheat the house. Visitors will be coming in usually quickly and will be wearing coats.
- Control the seasonal clothing, even in a mud room. Do your best to get coats and boots out of the way.
- Decorate the house but don’t go overboard. You’re selling your house not your decorations. Stay festive but don’t overkill.
- Sweep the walks and try to make it easy and convenient to get into the property. If buyers have to manage snow drafts they may not make the effort.
- If you are in a condo complex or the like make sure the commons areas look as nice as possible as well. This is probably your buyers first impression of your property.
Please contact Dena Stevens (719) 369-9087 today to buy or sell your Fremont County, Canon City, Florence, Penrose property.
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Very good advice. I just wrote a blog for buyers looking at homes in the winter! Many of my clients come from areas that are considerably warmer than where we are – sometimes a 10 degree or several inches of snow difference! Here many people winterize their vacation homes to keep costs down when not using them…so buyers are shocked at how chilly it can be inside! I always advise my sellers to hire someone to make sure that driveways and walkways are cleared of snow during the winter – buyers who are cold and have wet feet are not going to be in very good moods!
Karen,
I’ve heard tale that Pike County PA can get very cold! How fortunate that your sellers have you to advise them. A warm buyer could make the difference between a happy buyer and an unhappy showing.