Terrie O'Connor Realtors’ sales associates can provide you with specific recommendations to help make your home look its best when you put it on the market for sale.  During the spring and summer, your landscaping can be colorful with blooming flowers and trees.  You might plant flowers in your garden as well as keeping your bushes trimmed and the grass freshly mowed.  Keep your home cool with open windows or air conditioning.  Take advantage of spring-cleaning by straightening up closets and other storage areas.  Paint or paper your home in neutral colors as necessary and attend to small repairs such as loose handrails, damaged screens, and sticky doors.  Remove cobwebs and mould from under decks and eaves.

During the fall and winter, cheerfully decorating your home for the holidays will help highlight the positive aspects of your home.  Open drapes and replace dim light bulbs to make your home brighter and to create a warm atmosphere.  As the leaves fall, be sure to keep the yard raked.  Remove snow and ice from steps and walkways during the winter months.  Closets should be kept clutter free and excess furniture should be removed to make rooms look larger and inviting.  Holiday baking can be very enticing and assure that your home smells wonderful.

No matter what time of year, look at your home with a critical eye as if you were the buyer.  Do what needs to be done to show your property at its very best and to make it sparkle!

Checklist to Help Sell Your Property

• Be certain your home is neat and excess furniture is removed.
• Be sure bathrooms and kitchens clean and fresh smelling.
• Check yard and entryways for neatness.
• Open drapes and make sure that windows are clean.
• Replace dim light bulbs and make sure fixtures are clean.
• Attend to sticky doors, loose doorknobs, damaged screens, and loose handrails.
• Clean or remove rugs. Refinish floors.
• Repair appliances, kitchen and bathroom fixtures.
• Straighten up closets and storage areas.
• Replace any items, such as chandeliers, which will not be remaining with the property.
• Keep lawns and shrubbery trimmed.
• Set the lighting to create a warm atmosphere especially on dark days or evenings.
• Paint and/or wallpaper in neutral colors.
• If possible, have pets either away from your home or confined.