Selling Your House? Get a Head Start on Your Spring Cleaning and Jumpstart a Quick Sale

Are you planning to put your house up for sale this spring?  Get a head start on your spring cleaning and you just might jumpstart a quick sale of your home, says Diana Hudson Kresnye of Devine Designs in Mentor, Ohio.

Hudson Kresnye is Northeast Ohio’s leading professional home stager and she suggests home sellers use the weeks before they put their homes up for sale to spruce them up with some early spring cleaning. “Many people put their homes up for sale once the warmer weather arrives. To get the edge on the competition, they should use the next few weeks to properly prepare their homes for marketing,” says the professional home stager.

Many areas of the country have been hard hit by the softening real estate market but none more so than Northeast Ohio claims Hudson Kresnye. “Depending on the selling price, I’m seeing two to three times the number of houses up for sale than normal which means there’s a lot of competition out there,” she says. “It is not unusual to have three or more houses for sale on the same street. Why would a potential buyer choose your house instead of the one a few houses down?”

Hudson Kresnye says that the best pool of potential buyers tour a house during the first four weeks it’s on the market. To take advantage of this and to get a quick sale at top dollar, she says a house should look its best BEFORE a home seller lists with their real estate agent.  “When you sign a contract with a Realtor, in most cases they are going want to put a sign in your yard immediately. If your house doesn’t sparkle from day one, you lose your best chance of selling during those all-important first four weeks,” Hudson Kresnye says. “By the time you get a real estate agent into the picture, you should have already done your most important job and that is to properly prepare you house for marketing.”

Catching up on small repairs, removing outdated wall paper, completing unfinished projects, and doing your spring cleaning are ways Hudson Kresnye suggests to have your house outshine the competition.

“I go into people’s houses every day and my advice is almost always the same. They need to implement the three C’s:  get rid of the clutter; clean, clean, clean; and, add color,” she says. “I don’t think that people realize how challenging the resale market is until their house has sat for months or even a year,” the stager says. “That’s often when I get involved. A professional home stager is an objective third party who brings a fresh eye to your house. We see it as a potential buyer sees it.”

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DIANA HUDSON KRESNYE of Devine Designs is Northeast Ohio's leading Professional Home Stager.  Her Devine Designs specializes in redesign and real estate staging and also provides traditional interior decorating and design services. Devine Designs is based in Mentor, Ohio and can be contacted at 440-255-0111 or www.DevineDesignsHome.com