4 Ways to Prepare Your Home for a Showing

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Personal individuality is great, but not in the real estate market. Flashy furniture and gaudy decorations can definitely begin to impact the sale of your home. When people are touring your home they don't want to see your personality - they want to see your home. 

Here are four tips to rid your home of your character and get it sold more quickly.

1. Remove family photos, heirlooms, diplomas, trophies, or any other memorabilia or artwork that might take away from the experience of the potential buyer. They need to visualize themselves living in the home, and they can't do that if the home is filled with your belongings.
2. Repaint any rooms with too much personality. Hot pink or camouflage schemes may please you, but it will not help to sell your home. Try repainting with neutral earth tones to appeal to more buyers.
3. Show rooms as they are supposed to be used. Showcase your office as an office (not a storage area) and stage your garage as a place to park your vehicles (not a personal workshop). 
4. Detach yourself emotionally from your home. We tie in lots of feelings and emotions in our homes, but when you decide to sell your home, it's not really your home anymore. It's a huge investment, and you have to set aside your emotions to come to that realization. Emotions can eventually begin to impact your selling process, and that's a very hazardous situation. 

Hopefully these few tips will prevent your home from going stale as a result of clinging to your personality and investing too much emotion into your home. Letting go of the memories in your home isn't easy, but it's necessary for a great sale.

As always, please contact me with any questions about the Merrimack Valley real estate market. I would gladly set aside some of my time to speak with you.

Why is Now a Great Time to be at Laer Properties?

Looking to buy or sell a home in Merrimack Valley? Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home, click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call us at (978) 852-3001 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions. 

Today we are honored to be joined by Stacey Alcorn, our CHO (Chief Happiness Officer) at Laer Properties to find out exactly what events are coming up in the Laer universe and what you can expect from them!

On the business side, we have recently expanded into 5 different locations, and hope to open 3-4 additional offices in the Boston area in the next year. Now let's talk about some events coming up with Laer Properties.

Teachers are the cornerstone of the communities we do business in. For the past 2 years, every month we have traveled to a different school to host a catered teacher appreciation lunch. We have our agents come in and serve the meal, and it's always a great time. We are all booked for this year, except in the next two months. If you think the teachers at your school deserve a teacher appreciation luncheon in January or February, be sure to give us a call!

This is the time of year when we at Laer like to reach out to local charities and the community to help those in need. Things were no different this year, as we had a Thanksgiving program, a holiday gift giving program, and our latest community addition, the Laer bouncy house. Give us a call if you'd like to rent the house for your next event!

A lot of exciting things are happening at Laer Properties. If you'd like more info on anything mentioned above, be sure to give us a call or send us an email. Talk to you soon!