Getting Top Dollar for Your Property

As a homeowner, you play an important part in the timely sale of your property for the price the buyer ultimately pays for your home. Although McGuire Real Estate Partners will be following our effective and proven home-selling system, there are some key things that you can do to your home that will help sell your home faster and receive the best possible price.

Curb Appeal Sells Homes
Curb Appeal Sells Homes
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.
Deep Cleaning Means Bucks
Deep Cleaning Means Bucks
By deep cleaning every room in your home you won’t give a buyer a chance to say “ew”. If your baseboards and trim are scuffed, or the paint is stained or peeling, consider some minor redecoration. Prospects would rather see how great your home really looks than hear how great it could look, “with a little work.”
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.
Faucets and Light Bulbs
Faucets and Light Bulbs
Dripping water rattles the nerves, discolors sinks and suggests faulty or worn-out plumbing. Burned out lights may make buyers think that the home hasn’t been maintained well or there are electrical issues afoot. Don’t let little problems detract from what’s right with your home.
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.
Safety First
Safety First
Homeowners learn to live with all kinds of self-created booby traps such as shoes by the front door, network cabling and electrical cords snaking through a room, or slippery throw rugs. Make your home as safe for potential buyers as possible.
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.
Power-clean the Bathrooms
Power-clean the Bathrooms
Bathrooms sell homes, so let them shine. One of the easiest and cheapest fixes you can do is to repair damaged or stained caulking in the tubs and showers, scrub those sinks and toilets so all stains are a distant memory, and put out some fresh and newish towels that enhance the bathroom color.
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.
Create Dream Bedrooms
Create Dream Bedrooms
Bedrooms are personal sanctuaries, but they also accumulate stuff such as paperwork, extra clothes, and extra furniture. Get rid of all that extra stuff (you can move it to storage) and reveal the sanctuary within! A great spa-like look can be accomplished with fresh bedspreads and throw pillows.
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.
Staging Cabinets, Basement, and Attic
Staging Cabinets, Basement, and Attic
Potential buyers are looking for more than just comfortable living space – they’re looking for storage space, too. Consider a pre-move by boxing up items you aren’t going to need for the next few months. Many sellers more than make up for this expense when the buyer sees the potential space available.
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.
Open up in the Daytime
Open up in the Daytime
Let the sun shine in! Pull back your curtains and drapes so prospects can see how bright and cheery your home is.
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.
Lighten up at Night
Lighten up at Night
Turn on the excitement by turning on all your lights, both inside and outside, when showing your home in the evening. Lights add color and warmth, and make prospects feel welcome.
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.
Watch Your Pets
Watch Your Pets
Dogs and cats are great companions, but not when you’re showing your home. Pets have a talent for getting underfoot. So do everybody a favor: Keep Kitty and Spot outside, or at least out of the way.
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.
Let the Agent Show the Home
Let the Agent Show the Home
Potential buyers are more comfortable viewing a property without the homeowner being present. Your best bet is to leave is you have a showing scheduled. Consider it your permission slip to go get a coffee and relax for a bit!
A nicely-shorn lawn, trimmed shrubs, mulched beds, and a high-impact entry creates that wow factor as soon as a buyer pulls up to the curb.