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Uncommon Steps to Maximize Your Tri-Valley Home’s Selling Potential

Do you want your home to stand out from the crowd? The current marketplace is not to be taken lightly if you are a home seller.  If you have your home listed or you are contemplating listing your home, there are a number of uncommon steps that you can take to improve your opportunity to sell.

Everyone pretty much knows about the common techniques that most sellers take when putting their home on the market. Everything from de-cluttering to general cleaning to staging tend to be common practice.  However, in this marketplace going the extra mile for your home is essential.  Try these 5 uncommon home improvement tips to add extra appeal:

1. Identify odd smells.  Trust your Realtor and ask them if they detect any odd smells in your home.  We are often so accustomed to the smells in our own house that we have trouble detecting them.  Pay special attention to the kitchen and focus on the refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher.
2. Provide an intensive cleaning for your refrigerator and washer and dryer units.  Vacuum the coils and grates to show a cleaner appearance. Make sure to clean around and behind the refrigerator, too. In addition, you will be improving your energy efficiency for that appliance.  Also, the lint and detergent that may have collected on the washer and dryer units should be removed.
3. Clean your blinds and around the window sill.  This is an area where many people fail to remember.  However, it is very important to focus on these areas since sunlight is essential to showing your home.  As sunlight streams through the window it is showing off your home’s natural light, however it also shows off any dust that is left behind.
4. Replace or clean filters.  I am specifically talking about two locations.  The first is obvious, which is your air filter for your home.  This is a direct representation for some buyers of how the sellers have maintained their home. A visibly dirty filter can mean in a buyer’s mind a potentially unkempt home.  The second location for the filter is located in the vent above your oven.  A lot of cooking is done in this area and these vents can get clogged and filthy very quickly.
5. Spot cleaning or spot painting a wall is a risk.  Most of the time, it will make the rest of the wall look dingy or old. If you are going to clean a wall, start at the top to avoid drips and if you are going to spot paint consider painting the entire wall or section.

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