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Real Talk 2024: Making Your House Market Ready

By Inside Columbia
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Are you thinking of selling your home? On the Jordan Barnes Real Estate team with Iron Gate Real Estate, we believe that preparation is the key to a swift and lucrative sale. The key is to picture your home the way a potential buyer would, and celebrate the best parts of it. For more, the first thing to do is declutter. Do a walk-through of your home and identify anything that you don’t need on a daily basis. Pack away non-essentials and store them in an unfinished space or somewhere off the property. This will immediately make your space look bigger and more inviting for buyers coming to tour.

Next, focus on tidying up, organizing what is left and cleaning the space. If your space looks, smells and feels like someone already lives there, it will take longer to sell. Buyers want to walk in and feel like a property has been well taken care of, and presenting a clean tidy property creates a beautiful first impression, along with instilling confidence in its overall condition and maintenance history. You may also consider removing family photos and other personal items from your decor in order to help the buyer visualize themselves and their future in your house. Then, use the benefit of your freshly tidied and cleaned space to take notice and repair any small items. The less of a project the buyer sees your house as, the more likely they are to snag it!

Now that your home is nearly buyer-ready, think about everything you love about living there, and make sure it is celebrated! Keep in mind two points to a quick sale: light and space. That is ultimately what you’re selling. Walk through and around your home at different times of day, as showings can happen first thing in the morning or well after dark. Is the front stoop too dark for agents to navigate and get the key? Make sure it’s lit! Does the huge plant in front of the window make the living room feel small? Move it!

With the Jordan Barnes Real Estate team, we’re all about helping people transition in and out of their homes with as much ease as possible. Every situation is unique, and we would be thrilled to have the opportunity to walk through your home and brainstorm what the perfect marketing plan would be like for you! Until then, if you’re even thinking about selling, start working on these to-dos to get your house market-ready. Even if you stay, it could make your house feel more like home!

Jordan Barnes
573-694-7892
jordan@jordanbarnesrealestate.com
jordanbarnesrealestate.com

Melissa Menard
573-673-6300
melissa@igrealestate.com
jordanbarnesrealestate.com

Kayla Beasly
417-793-0085
kayla@igrealestate.com
jordanbarnesrealestate.com

Trinity Green
Team Support Coordinator
jordanbarnesrealestate.com

Iron Gate Real Estate
573-777-5001
2635 S. Providence Road
Columbia, MO 65203

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