Seller Tips

How To Prepare A Home For A Sale
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West Michigan Home Seller

There are several inexpensive and effective ways to maximize how your home shows to potential buyers. This could possibly boost an offer by a few thousand dollars, with only a little time and few hundred dollars of investment. Just pay attention to how your home looks from the curb and how it shows when you walk through the door.

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Exterior Tips

  • Keep the lawn mowed, leaves raked, bushes trimmed and weed-free along walkways, the driveway and in flower beds
  • Keep watering and fertilizing the lawn so it looks lush and green
  • Remove and store outdoor sports equipment, lawn tools, construction materials, and trash cans
  • Remove leaves, insect nests and webs from porches, decks and windows
  • Plant containers of hardy and brightly colored flowers such as geraniums and mums in prominent locations
  • Keep the garage door closed

Interior Tips

  • Keep things clean and put away, especially in the kitchen and bathrooms. Spray clean bathroom and kitchen counters before any occasion that may bring a potential buyer through the house. Clean tubs and showers and place toilet seats down before a showing
  • Tighten and repair cabinet handles, hinges and doorknobs so everything is solid and not wobbly
  • Air out the house and avoid smells from cooking or smoking
  • Make sure that plumbing fixtures such as faucets and toilets are in good working order. Repair dripping faucets and running toilets
  • To make the home look more spacious, consider removing some pieces of furniture
  • Touch up high traffic areas around walls and doors that may have nicks, scrapes and smudges. Outside wall corners that are especially susceptible to becoming nicked should be repaired and repainted

Sell Your West Michigan Home

  • They Trusted Me

  • "We appreciated our time working to purchase a home with Alix. We changed our important search criteria many times and she was never daunted. She was flexible, timely, produced great documents and information for us and presented our offer in a very professional manner. It was a very enjoyable experience working with Alix and most importantly, we love our home."

    Jay & Carol

    Purchase Of A Home

  • "Alix Criswell is a Realtor who both buyers and sellers can love and count on. As a buyer’s agent, Alix is extremely detail-oriented and thorough with the reports she generates on potential properties. Making a decision about buying or passing on an option is easy with Alix, because she provides so much information. That really helps with peace of mind regarding such a big decision. As a seller’s agent, Alix is patient and hard-working. She does her best to honor client’s wishes while steering them towards the best choices to get a sale. She’s very professional, and does her best to handle the sales process in the best way possible. She’s readily available and willing to work as hard as is necessary to get the best results for her clients. We wholeheartedly recommend Alix as a Realtor for anyone considering buying or selling a home."

    Tim & Amy

    Selling A Home, Buying A Home

  • "We interviewed a couple of Realtors but decided to go with Alix and we were very happy with our decision. Not only was she honest with us, but she used a lot of research to support her listing of our home (for sale). She was very helpful during the closing of our house and was always available to answer questions and help with the high stress closing process. I truly believe her ability to go above and beyond to facilitate the closing process was a huge reason why we were able to sell our home! Not only would we refer Alix in the future, but we have on multiple occasions with our family and friends. "

    Tony & Amber

    Sale Of A Home

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Alix Criswell - Broker/Owner:
Guidepost Real Estate, LLC
Realtor ®, ABR, GRI, PSA, SRES
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