THE
ULTIMATE
HOME SELLER
CHECKLIST
Providing a Simplified and Stress Free Home Selling Experience
Are you considering selling your home but you’re not sure where to start? Does the thought of listing your home and getting is show-ready stressing you out?
I’m committed to making sure that your home selling experience is as painless as possible. My team and I have been helping home owners all across town salel their homes quickly, easily, and at the highest price possible.��The following guide contains important information you will need to gather prior to listing your home for sale.
Use the Ultimate Seller Checklist as a guideline to help you get your home listed quickly and effortlessly.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I’m here to help
Your Journey Towards Getting
For Your Home Begins Here.
TOP DOLLAR
DEAR
HOME
SELLER,
ANNUAL OPERATING COSTS (APPROXIMATE)
Water: _____________
Hydro: _____________
Heating: _____________
Property Taxes: _____________
INFORMATION
Age of Home _____________
Age of Roof _____________
Age of Furnace _____________
Age of Windows _____________
Age of Central Air Conditioning _____________
ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS (IF AVAILABLE)
Please submit the following documents with this first page. Copies are okay.
KEYS
Please provide an extra set of keys on your next visit so prospective Buyers and their agents may access your home.
HOME IMPROVEMENTS
Please list any major improvements have been made that may affect the value of your home, and the approximate cost of these improvements:
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Staging Your Home
It’ a proven fact that a staged home appeals to more buyers, spends less time on the market, and sells for more money, than if it were not staged.
How a home looks and feels affects a Buyer’s perception of how much it’s worth.
Staging adds visual appeal, warmth, and beauty to your home by optimizing the use, look and feel of your home.
This section outlines the different things you can do to stage your home to sell for top dollar.
TOUCH UP WALLS WITH FRESH, NEUTRAL PAINT
A fresh coat of paint is one of the cheapest ways to update your home. Bold colours may not appeal to Buyers, so now’s the time to re-paint that red accent wall and purple bathroom.
PRO TIP:
Light colours make small rooms appear bigger and
Blue puts more green in your pocket
According to Zillow’s 2017 Color Analysis Report, the right shade of blue adds the most value to a home. In particular, homes with bathrooms painted in light blue or periwinkle sold for $5,440 more, kitchens in light blue or slate grey (+$1,809), dining rooms (+$1,926), and bedrooms (+$1,856), on average.
The only room where blue was found to decrease a home’s value was the living room, where it dropped a home’s value by $820. Walls painted in other livable neutrals such as soft taupe and pale grey were found to be more profitable in this space, increasing a home’s selling price by $1,809 and $1,526 respectively.
Pull your rooms together by placing accent pieces from the same colour palette (like the Benjamin Moore swatch pictured above) throughout your rooms. This will create a more cohesive look.
WALLS AND CEILINGS
Whole Home Considerations
STAGE EVERY ROOM FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE
If you’ve converted the spare bedroom into a den, or the den into an exercise room, make the effort to convert those rooms to the way that most people use them. You want Buyers to easily visualize how they’d live in your home and its rooms the way they would use them.
GET RID OF FAMILY PHOTOS, RELIGIOUS ARTIFACTS, AND PERSONAL MEMENTOS
Indeed, these are the exact things that make your home feel like home – but that’s precisely why you need to get rid of them. You want to create an objective space – a blank canvas so to speak – for potential Buyers. Take down your wedding photos and your shot glass collection – they’ll soon have a new home anyhow.
Febreeze the smell out of your home
Every home has a smell. You may be densitized to your own home’s scent because you’re used to it, but a Buyer will sense it as soon as they walk through the door.
CLOSETS AND STORAGE AREAS
Unfortunately, cramming everything you don’t want seen in to your closets won’t fly. Buyers will open doors and look in your cupboards and assume that a cramped closet equals insufficient storage in your home. Purge what belongings you don’t need and neatly organize what you do.
Give pets a good wash and commit to not cooking fish or curry for the time your home is listed for sale. Buy a few plug-in air fresheners and don’t ever smoke in your house. If you do smoke outside, hide the evidence. An ashtray full of butts can be off putting to potential Buyers as well.
It isn’t enough to just have a clean and shiny home the day you go on the market. You never know when a Buyer may turn up for a viewing , so you need to have it looking its best every day. Ensure your home is always show-ready to make the most of every opportunity and get the highest possible price for your home.
INSIDE YOUR HOME
KITCHEN
The kitchen is one of the rooms Buyers are most attracted to give extra love to this space.
Daily Upkeep
BATHROOMS/POWDER ROOM
LIVING ROOM
BASEMENT
FLOORING (HARDWOOD, TILE, CARPETING, AREA RUGS, ETC.)
WINDOWS
BEDROOMS
OUTSIDE YOUR HOME