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Have you been considering selling your house in the near future? If you have, then it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take a good long look at your house, using an unbiased eye.

After all, a clean, appealing, well maintained house has much better odds of selling, selling for more, and selling faster.

When looking at your house, the thing you need to keep repeating to yourself is that “first impressions are lasting impressions.” This couldn’t be truer when it comes to selling real estate.

However, this doesn’t mean that you should take on a major renovation project just so that you can sell your house. Remember, there are no guarantees that you would recover the costs of an enormous overhaul.

The following are some practical help

Your house should smell good. When this comes to selling the house, it means that there should be no noticeable odors. Make careful attempts to get rid of the following smells:

* Pet odors
* Stale cooking/food smells
* Cigarette smoke

Smell makes an enormous impact on people when they enter a house. Furthermore, while smokers and pet owners may not even notice the smells in their house – having become quite accustomed to them – they may be an overwhelming turn-off for potential purchasers.

In this case, have a non-smoking, non-pet owning friend come over to perform a sniff test.

While it used to be recommended that you bake bread or steam cinnamon potpourri before potential purchasers come, it’s no longer recommended. The same goes for spray air fresheners.

If you insist upon adding a scent to your house, make it a very – repeat, very – lightly scented candle, or scented oil. However, it’s better not to scent the house at all.

The best way to get rid of scent problems in a house isn’t to cover them up, but instead, it’s to remove them at the source. Recommended techniques for accomplishing this include:

* Scrubbing thehouse
* Having the air vents cleaned
* Replacing old, smelly carpeting
* Smoking outdoors

Just like you, purchasers are lazy when it comes to having to take on large projects within the home. They want to be able to move in and be happy with what they’ve bought.

If your house is in need of work, such as the following, you should tackle them before the potential purchasers get to see it, so that all they will picture is moving day, not all the work they’d have to put into the house e.g.

* Old, dated wallpaper
* Ratty carpeting
* Cracked or peeling paint
* Cracked, broken, or missing tiles
* Other similar projects

Most purchasers will want all of the important work done before they move in. They don’t want to have to worry about tearing the place apart as soon as they get their stuff inside.

They want to buy a home, and not remain unsettled for a long time while they bring the place to the level that they consider to be livable.

With each change that the prospective purchasers calculate that they’d have to make to your house; they’ll become just that much more concerned. When it comes to selling your house, you need to make it your priority to assuage these concerns.

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