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The open house serves one purpose. It is to get potential buyers into your home and enticed by all the positives. To make sure they have a positive experience, you need to make sure the home is going to shine for them. Once you decide to sell the abode you have lived in, you need to make an emotional change. The property is no longer your home. It is just a product that must be sold. Come to grips with this and most of these open house tips will make sense. The eyes are the pathway to the soul. In a home, the windows serve the same purpose, but outwards. If a window has a great view, make sure the blinds are wide open. If it does not, go in the opposite direction. Every family produces lots of trash. In contrast, products should not come with trash. Your home is now a product. Remove all trash in the home. Yes, from trash bins. Also, make sure the bins in the home do not stink to high heaven. A bathroom is a critical room in the open house. Buyers will go over it with a fine tooth comb. Shower doors should be so clean you can see yourself in them. Use an industrial size squeegee to prevent streaks. The toilets are another area that will get attention. Clean them thoroughly. Make sure to get the area behind the area where they tilt up and the outer section of the bowl where it meets the floor. The seat should be left down. Moving to the kitchen, we have the holy grail of staging opportunities. Clean everything and then clean it again. The kitchen is the soul of any home and it will get the once over by any buyer. If you need a priority list for cleaning the kitchen, start at the stove. Top to bottom, inside and out, it must appear to be not clean, but new. Buyers know this is where the action occurs every day and will inspect it closely. The refrigerator is another area in the kitchen that will be looked at closely. It should be gleaming. Remove the shelves and clean everything. Make sure to include the ice box when you do the work. At this point, the home should be pretty clean, but there are a couple of things left that still clutter it up. What? Your family and pets. The open house is a period where they are forbidden to be in the home. Give them the boot. Ever sold your car before? Did you keep the fuzzy dice or yank them out? You yanked them to improve the prospect of selling it. Your home should be treated the same way. Follow these tips and you should be on your way to getting offers.
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