home buyers from even being interested in your home. When you have darkening window treatments that do not let lots of outside light into your home, you lose. Why? Home buyers want to be able to see what they are considering buying very clearly. If they find your home to be dark and uninviting, buyers will go to the next home and not even consider writing an offer to purchase your home. Your home will be on the reject list. You, as the home seller, along with your real estate professional do not even have the chance to make a counter offer or to accept the contract as they have offered it, because your home was not well lit and looked uninviting to potential home buyers. Probably the only exception would be with investors who want a bargain when buying a home for investment purposes and they will offer a correspondingly very low price for your home.
To avoid only receiving offers from investors, the seller must make sure the inside of their home has excellent lighting in every room and especiallly in the entryway, kitchen, bathrooms, living room, family room, hallways, and dining room. If you own blinds, roman shades, curtains, or any other window treatments, take them down right away (preferably within a day of listing your home for sale) along with their hardware and fill in the holes where the nails were and paint over them if that room has been painted then clean them and pack them away by hanging them in a closet. Light rooms sell and dark rooms do not sell, so get busy and take down those window treatments today.
Written, copyrighted and all rights reserved 2007 by Sherrie Hartzell, licensed real estate salesperson in Virginia with Keller Williams Preferred Realty-Stafford, VA.
