First impressions start with curb appeal, but next to the kitchen, the space that arguably carries the most weight is your living area. To be fair, the living room is where people spend the most time decompressing and escaping their worries. So buyers are going to run away if they stumble across a living room that scares them.
Dead Insects
Make sure every corner of your home is bug before you show your home. The last thing you want is for potential buyers to want into a bug graveyard. Although it could be worse, they could be alive, however, it’s still not welcoming to see several dead bugs on the floor.
Your Strange Collections
We’re sorry but the sad clown paintings on your living room walls have to go. Anything too thematic should be removed from your living room. Victorian dolls? No thanks. But even a huge collection of decorative items can give buyers the wrong impression. So no matter how harmless and lovable your collections seem to you, pack them away. Even too many pet toys and car items can make your house seem less like a home and more like an animal shelter.
Smelly Smells
Bad or even unexpected odors is the number offender for buyer not liking a home. It’s one thing to walk into a home that smells like the Grand Floridian hotel lobby at Disney World but it’s another to walk into a home that smells like fast food restaurant. Keep the odors pleasant or non-existent.
Evidence of Your Fur Babies
If you’re a pet owner you may have comes to terms that your lovable ball of fluff sheds half a ton of hair onto your floors and couch cushions. However, buyers looking at your house won’t be so understanding. Obviously, the buyers will clean the house once they move in but they may feel as though they will never really get all the pet hair out of the house and that’s just plain gross.
Cave Lighting
Light is the number one seller of a home. Opening the curtains and turning on every light in the home will make the space look bigger and more inviting. Although caves are great for movie nights, you want to show off the features of your home and that is kind of hard to do when it looks like Knockturn Alley in your home.
Evidence of Hoarding
If you have ever seen the TV show “Hoarders” on TLC then you know how horrible hoarding can get and what unwanted secrets can be uncovered when the hoard is removed. Having too much stuff in the home will make the space look smaller and cramped which is off-putting to buyers. It also hides potential problems in the home like damaged floors and walls. The mystery of what lies beneath the piles of stuff will scare potential buyers away.
Personal Photos
Buyers want to be able to picture themselves living in the home and it’s kind of hard to do that when there are countless pictures of family vacations on the walls. So your family pictures from Epcot, probably need to come down.
