Preparing your home prior to listing can help facilitate a quicker transaction and may help you in receiving the right price. We have compiled some tips to help you get started:

• Have your home cleaned thoroughly
• Remove all family photo’s throughout the house
• Take all magnets etc off of fridge
• De-clutter your home both inside and out
• Have carpets professionally cleaned, or replaced if damaged
• Repair dripping faucets and leaky toilets
• Touch up all interior paint
• Replace all burnt out light bulbs and clean all light fixtures and repair faulty switches
• Cut and edge grass, trim hedges, and weed gardens
• Paint, fix or wash railings, steps, storm windows, screens and doors
• Clean out the gutters
• Wash the windows
• Tidy up the garage and paint, wash and fix garage doors and windows
• Did we mention de-cluttering your home? We cannot emphasize enough how important
• this is, just think of what you want to see when you are on a home search!

Once your home is listed, potential buyers will be visiting your home. Here are some helpful tips for showing your home:

• Keep pets out of the house (cats are ok if calm demeanour)
• Put away items in the yard like garden tools, bicycles and toys
• Leave all of the lights on
• In the winter, keep heat at a comfortable level - this means warm!
• De-clutter all surfaces. Clutter is distracting to buyers and can make the space seem smaller
• Keep money, prescription drugs, and other valuables well out of view and locked away
• Remove trash from the house and make sure there isn’t a strong smell
• Open all shades and curtains to let in light
• Keep radios and TV off—although oftentimes soft music in the background is a nice touch

• Do not remain in the house or linger in the vicinity! Allow the potential buyers to view the 

  property without having to think about who currently lives there