Prepping The Inside Of Your Lake House For Sell
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Are you thinking about putting your lakefront home up for sale, but not sure where to begin? Scared it will take a long time to sell, or that you wont receive the price you are looking for? Consider staging your lake home, i.e., arranging the lake home to peak a buyers interest in the property.
To be really effective, you should look at both the interior and the exterior of your lake home. Here are three tips to get you started with the interior of your lake home:
1. De-clutter. This is an important tip that you can do. It may be simpler to think of de-cluttering like this ” you’re moving anyway, so why not beginning packing now? Pack up everything you don’t need and store the boxes in the garage or in a small storage building.
2. Organize the cupboards and closets- By getting your cupboards and closets organized by color and types; it makes small spaces appear larger. This will help your home sell faster because most buyers want to see that the home has plenty of closet and cabinet space.
3. Decorate your home. As you begin packing up your personal items, why not replace them with decorative items that match your surroundings. You can place pictures of boats and other lake related pictures in place of your personal photos and other decorative items like boat ores and signs to accent the surroundings. Replace counter top appliances you don’t use with decorated canisters or put small items or fruit in some attractive baskets or glass vases.
And the biggest tip of all? Think of yourself as the potential buyer looking at your lakefront home for the very first time. What impressions do you get? Would you buy your lake home? What changes would you like to see made before you put an offer to purchase your home?
You don’t have to spend a lot of money to prep your home for sale. What ever you do put into your lake home you’ll likely get back by selling the home quickly and for your asking price.
Hubert Miles is the founder of Waterfront Houses USA, an internet advertising service that provides Lakefront Homes and Lake Homes available in the US and Canada.
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Feb 02 2010
