Home Selling Tip

With so much inventory on the market, it is imperative to make sure that you have prepared your home for optimum showing. Buyers,…in what has been deemed as a “buyer’s market” …are pickier than ever. They are asking to see between 30-50 homes sometimes before they make a decision!

Buyers usually know within about 10 seconds if your house will make the final cut. So, before a buyer votes you off the island or shouts “Your Fired” -you will want to impress them as soon as they pull up to the house, but especially as soon as their realtor opens the door and ushers them in.

Today’s tip has to do with your “scentmosphere”. This is often forgotten when staging the home for sale. The visual aspects are the main focus. You’ve heard it from your realtor, “Pack up the clutter and put it in storage,” “Take down all the family photos,” “Take out some of the furniture,” and “Clean out the closets!”

What does your house smell like? Your realtor would be a great advisor as this person doesn’t live there. We get immune to the scents in our own house. Does it smell like the dinner from last night or the dirty dishes, your family dog, or worse yet: dirty diapers? Sandra just told me last weekend of her horror story with her buyer clients when they walked into a gorgeous house that smelled like the dirty diaper sitting on the floor in the master bedroom! It doesn’t matter how great or perfect that house is, the smell of the dirty diaper was forever burned into the buyer’s memory…and nose!

Burn candles or get those reed diffusers that continuously give off fragrance. Good smells are kitchen spice scents, vanilla, citrus, or fresh/clean scents. Don’t get something so strong and spicey that it overwhelms visitors.

Be aware of the environment and your scentmosphere every day you leave! The day you forget to check will be the day the buyer comes to see your home…. afterall, it’s Murphy’s Law!

Kelli Grant of Platinum Premier Realty
8765 E Bell Rd. Ste 210 Scottsdale AZ 85260
602-799-5420