Putting your house on the market is a big and complex decision for anyone. There are so many aspects to selling your home and moving that it can feel a bit overwhelming, but there are some things that you can do to help yourself right from the start.
Everyone has their own tips and tricks like baking bread before viewings, or making sure you’ve made the garden presentable for photos. However, the heart of them all is getting your house in order so that others could imagine living there.
A major part of that is decluttering, and that is where self-storage can help in an area where first impressions are absolutely everything.
Depersonalise the house
If you’ve lived in a house for a while, you’re bound to have accumulated lots of belongings that might fit your lifestyle and tastes, but could also not be right for others and potentially even put them off.
While you might love how your home is laid out and everything in it, you have to be dispassionate and think about how potential buyers see it. You want them to be able to imagine their own belongings in the house, and that is much harder to do if the house is cluttered.
Moving lots of stuff into self-storage space can help avoid this pitfall.
Make the house seem larger
Another immediate benefit of decluttering your home is that it will look and, most importantly, feel larger once you have shifted lots of your belongings into self-storage.
It’s that first impression again – if you can create the illusion of more space, that’s what people will remember. If it feels small, then that’s what will be at the forefront of people’s minds when they think about whether to put an offer in.
In this case, the minimal cost of using a self-storage facility can help secure a sale at your dream price.
Paint the picture you want
You can also use self-storage as a way to paint the picture you want. Also known as “staging”, you can use self-storage to actively create the image that you want the buyer to see. This is different from depersonalising the home as it isn’t simply a case of getting every bit of clutter out and hoping potential buyers can see past what is left.
Instead, this is more like curating your home by sending older or tattered furniture to storage and leaving more modern pieces in place. Or if your house is of a particular style, for example it is more of a cottage, you can choose to keep the style of furniture that people who are interested in a cottage might expect to see, and remove more modern additions.
Self-storage helps you take the smart approach to selling your home and remove some of the guess work. The more you can control, the better, and there’s nothing more important than the first impression.
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