Selling Your Home? The Advantages of the Mayer Harman Team - Part 3: Getting Ready to List Your Home

October 20, 2022

It's more than just putting it on the market!

Getting Ready to Sell

Listing your home is a big step, and here at the Mayer-Harman Team, we want to ensure that your home is ready to shine.

To do this, we have several different steps that we go through to ensure that we can photograph and market your home in a way that will have buyers eager to come to take a look!

Getting Ready to Sell: Staging Consultation

Staging is an essential part of getting your house ready to sell. When a home is professionally staged, it will potentially sell 73% faster than an unstaged home. Therefore, one of the first things we do is a staging consultation. This means that a staging professional will tour your home while making notes about what could be adjusted or changed to improve the buyers' perceptions of the space.

Something to remember: staging is meant to present your home in a specific way. The suggestions for changes are to create a delicate balance between looking great and staying neutral. This balance allows potential buyers to see certain spaces in a specific way.

Once the stager has finished touring your home, they will sit down with you and go over their suggestions and answer any questions you might have. You will receive a follow-up email that will include the list you discussed with the stager and a summary of what you discussed, if needed.

Getting Ready to Sell: Pre-listing Home Inspection

A pre-listing home inspection is essential in getting your home ready to sell. By thoroughly inspecting your home and investigating trouble spots, the inspector can give you an idea of what needs to be fixed or corrected before listing and what could be left for the new owners to deal with (with full disclosure, of course).

Some of our clients worry that this home inspection might prevent them from listing. It won't. If the inspector discovers your house has a leaky roof, and you don't want to spend the money to fix it, then make a note that that will probably affect the sale price of your home.

This inspection does not replace the assessment that is commonly written into offers. Instead, it prevents any surprises from coming up when you're well into the sale process and have a ton of other seller-related tasks on your plate.

Getting Ready to Sell: Coordination of Contractors and Repairs

We offer cleaning services to every home before putting it on the market. This service is never a comment on you or how clean you keep your house. Instead, it is a chance for cleaning professionals to come in and find those nooks and crannies that seem to get away with being a little dusty.

By having professional cleaners come in, you can be confident that sellers won't be put off by rogue cobwebs or a forgotten dusty lamp when they come to view your home. You never know what buyers are going to focus on!

Getting Ready to Sell: Staging

When it's crunch time, and you're about to put your house on the market, it will be time to stage your home. Once you have completed your list (or let us know if you haven't), the staging crew will come and set up their furniture and design elements. This process takes around 4-6 hours, depending on what needs to be done.

Once the staging is complete, we recommend you take some pictures of shared spaces where things might get moved so that you can put items back before showings.

Getting Ready to Sell: It's Up To You!

Each of these services is optional, though highly recommended if you want your house to sell quickly and for top dollar. There is potentially a lot of work and investment on the seller's part before putting the house on the market. However, we know you will see better results if you put in that extra effort.