Selling a home can be a big challenge, but with some pre-planning and the use of a few creative tricks, a homeowner can sell their house fairly quickly. Consider the following suggestions to help make your home selling experience as positive as possible.

Take stock of your kitchen. This room is the heart of a home, so make sure yours is up to scratch. This might include making some quick upgrades to this all-important room. While you might not want to spend the money on granite or all new appliances, painting the walls, updating cupboard hardware and cleaning out all of the cupboards and pantry are easy ways to make this room more appealing.

Note that first impressions really count so give your home that welcoming and truly increase the impact of your curb appeal. You can clean up outer features and improve the entrance. Start by cleaning windows, cleaning out gutters, pressure washing the driveway, pulling up unwanted weeds and decorating the entrance with some potted plants. A good paint color on your front door or a replacement of the door or update on its hardware might be in order. Most importantly, ensure that every element in the yard is most appealing where no disrepair or poor upkeep be visible.

The first impression of the inside of your home is important as well. Make sure your home is extremely clean and smells fresh and clean. Place a bouquet of flowers by your front door or even a little dish with candy or cookies. When people walk in, your home should immediately appeal to the senses. Make sure there is no clutter anywhere and remove all of your personal items, such as photos and the majority of your knickknacks and accessories. A few carefully placed accessories are fine, but pack up all of the excess. Keep in mind that this gives you a head start on packing anyway. Be sure to also clean out and reduce the amount of stuff in every closet in your home. Organized closets and cupboards that are not crammed with stuff appeal to buyers.

Most often, sales is all about the right marketing and for your home to be sold easily you should give it a good kick through advertising. Going online is the most popular means that people find new homes to buy these days. With this, make sure you get included in home listings on real estate websites as well as have your home’s pictures on them. The different social media may be used by your realtor but it is still important that you make your own effort of posting it in your Facebook. This could start the cycle of „referring your home“ with a friend and continue with their friends and so on.

Be sure to contact a real estate team such as 1stInsite when you are ready to sell a home in Alamo or Lafayette or if you own Moraga real estate, Walnut Creek real estate, Orinda real estate and Danville real estate. The realtors at 1stInSite can help any client sell or buy homes around Contra Costa and Alameda counties.

Madeleine Glazier enjoys blogging about the real estate industry. If you are looking for Orinda real estate agents, or to discover Lafayette homes for sale, please visit the 1stInsite.com website now.