Preparing Your Home To Sell

Before you list your home, you’ll want to make sure it’s photo and show ready.

Proper packing techniques will help you prepare your home for sale in more ways that you think. If it looks like you take good care of your possessions, buyers are likely to assume you have taken the same approach with the house.

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Clean and Stage to Impress

Since the area is known for its music scene, make sure to check out a concert at one of the venues like Neumo’s, pick through a record store like Sonic Boom, or do the extreme and attend the Capitol Hill Block Party in July. You can also say hello to the Jimi Hendrix statue on the corner of Broadway and Pine. If you’re into film, see a movie at the Landmark Harvard Exit – a classic building turned into theaters. Despite being one of the most densely populated areas of the city, Capitol Hill also has a surprising amount of green space, including Volunteer Park, Cal Anderson Park, and Interlaken Park, not to mention the Washington Parks Arboretum on the northeast corner.

Purge and Pack

When you decide to prepare your home for sale, the first order of business is to start packing and purging immediately. To avoid feeling like your entire life and home are upside-down, outline a strategy to keep you organized.

Go through every room and collect items you want to donate, throw out or sell. Do this before you start packing to save you both money and work.

Take an inventory of all your belongings.

Pack a suitcase full of items you want to hold onto during the moving process.

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Depersonalize and Declutter

Once you pack, it’s time to clear out all the clutter in the house, so you can showcase your home in a simplified manner. Make sure to take down any personal items, such as family photos, trophies, or memorabilia. Buyers want to imagine themselves in the home, and it will be hard to do so when they see your stuff everywhere.