Palm Harbor Home Staging Tips – How To Get Your House Ready To Sell

There are literally thousands of Palm Harbor homes for sale on the market now and competition is super fierce. If you are under the gun to sell your house quickly, it is important to know how to get it ready to sell fast. Read on for some of our favorite Palm Harbor home staging tips.

Palm Harbor Homes For Sale Stats

Before we get started on WHAT to do to sell your Palm Harbor home fast, let’s talk about WHY it is so important to stage your Palm Harbor home for sale! Currently on the market there are:

• 103 single family homes for sale listed between $100,000 and $150,000 and 549 listed between $100K and $500K in Palm Harbor alone (no Dunedin, Ozona or any other areas, just Palm Harbor!)
• Only 52 single family homes in the $100k-500k price range sold last month
• There are 480 Condos for sale between $0 and $250,000 with only 48 sold in the last month

What this means to your Palm Harbor home for sale is that you have about about a 10 percent chance of selling you home any given month (while these numbers move up and down a little bit, the absorption rate for Pinellas County has been consistently hovering around the 10 percent mark for quite a while now). If your home is not immaculate and ready for sale, you will be part of that 90% of Palm Harbor homes for sale that fail to sell each month.

Palm Harbor Home Staging Tips

While your home may look perfectly fine to you, if you plan to sell and want to do it quickly, pay attention! Before putting your house on the market, take as much time as necessary (and as little money as possible) to maximize its exterior and interior appeal. Here are a few ways to sell your Palm Harbor home fast:

1. Be critical!

Walk around the house as if you were a stranger seeing it for the first time. What sticks out? Remove personal items that stand out such as family photos, weird art, or trophies.Take EVERYTHING off your refrigerator. It will instantly improve the look of your kitchen. Remove clutter. You know it’s there, it is time to stop ignoring the piles, on top of the cabinets as well as inside the junk drawers and closets.

2. Make it look attractive outside

Curb appeal cannot be emphasized enough. It is the first reason people become interested in your home. Paint or power wash if it is needed. Add some colorful potted plants and clean up the landscaping. Mow! Whatever you can do to simplify, trim, and clean up outside will make an attractive statement that will entice buyers inside.

3. Make it scented, not stinky

If you are selling your Pinellas home with dogs and kids, or do you smoke? Your home may smell and you may not even realize it. Invite an honest friend or your friendly neighborhood Realtor over to point out smelly trouble spots. Clean the carpets or furniture if needed. Change the litter box every day. An instant aroma enhancement is to bake food that smells delicious – such as cookies or bread – and leave some out for guests.

4. Clean it up

A Palm Harbor (or actually any) house that is clean will sell faster than its shabby neighbor, even though both are equally as sound. Scrub the baseboards, moldings, blinds and windows. Dry mop the cobwebs—inside and out. Get your wood or tile floors to shine. Clean as if your mother-in-law is on her way over. Make it easy on yourself and use a professional cleaning service every few weeks while the house is on the market.

5. Stage it like a pro!

Use brighter light bulbs and open curtains to make rooms look bigger and brighter. Put fresh flowers on the table. Remove unnecessary furniture. Place new, colorful towels in the bathroom being sure to remove them after each showing to keep them fresh.

One last tip: Take an afternoon and go visit a new home community. Walk through the model homes. Notice how spartan they are. Model homes are depersonalized, de-cluttered, and very clean. Aim for that same look for your own home when you consider how to get your house ready to sell.

If you would like us to come and give you some Home Seller Tips in person, give us a call today. Knowing how you stack up to other Palm Harbor homes for sale is vital! Our suggestions will be gentle but honest and the appointment is free! (727) 366-0324

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