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There are several reasons for wanting to sell your house. Some of the most common ones are: you are planning to relocate for personal or professional reasons, or maintenance of the house has become an issue, or you are tired of land lording and dealing with tenants, or you may be faced with financial difficulties like bankruptcy, foreclosure, etc.

You would not want to keep the house for long when you are going through any of these issues. Rather, you might feel that you want to ‘sell my house’ in the minimum possible time.

John, a resident of Washington DC, is facing a similar issue. John, who is not a fan of snow and chilly weather, always wanted to move to cities with warmer climate. In fact, he received an offer for a job from a company in California. Now, he needs to sell his house fast, in less than 10 days, so that he may relocate and start his new assignment.

He discussed the situation with one of his friends, Sam, who has earlier worked for a real estate company. Sam knew how Real estate agents worked and said that it would be hard to find a buyer that soon.  He informed John that with the traditional Real estate agents he would have to put the house on their listing and stage it for buyers until he finds someone willing to purchase his house.

However, that would take longer than a week, may be a couple of months or even more. Sam further cautioned John that to list the house, it is important to make sure that it looks neat and clean. From minor repairs to major ones, painting, cleaning should be done, so that when the buyers visit the house they don’t notice anything unpleasant. That worried John as it would cost him money and time.

On a lighter note, Sam recalled some of the real estate industry jokes he had heard while working for real estate company; well, if you want to sell your house fast put up an emotional “for sale board,” something that reads “Need to Sell – Owner Lost Job, “or “House for Sale as Husband left Family for a Younger Woman.”

As John kept looking to sell his house fast, he heard about some fast home buying companies on TV, and felt that these companies might help him. As he looked up the internet for more information on home buying companies and their style of working, he realized that these companies offer many advantages and believe in quick sales. They seemed to be the answer to all his problems. John realized that these reputable home buying companies would buy houses in an As Is state, meaning no need for home owners to fix anything be it a minor plumbing work or a major ceiling leak or cracks on the walls. There would be no need to declutter, paint, clean every day for a new potential buyer. Home buying companies buy houses in any condition, be it ugly, pretty or with legal, financial and other regulatory issues. They are always ready with a ‘We buy houses’ competitive offer.

Reputable home buying companies buy these houses directly, as against dealing on your behalf to help you find a prospective buyer, thus, helping you save time. When you decide to sell your house (www.wikihow.com/Sell-Your-Home-Fast-and-Easy) to a reputable home buying company, you can save the commission, which otherwise you would have had to pay to an agent.

Fast home buying companies work with a huge network of home repairing and renovation professionals, who help them, repair and renovate the home and resell it for a better price. Yes, home buying companies do take into account the investment needed for them to fix the issues with the house, and will make an offer after deducting such investments. That sounds fair, right?

Finally, they make quick offers within hours of talking about your house over the phone. They visit the property, take a tour of the house, and come up with a competitive price and pay full in cash. If everything falls in place, you could be selling your house in 7 days!

John decided to contact a house buying company in Washington DC with enough cash flow so that they could close the deal quickly. He realized that it is better to deal with a professional team that works out of a proper office environment and has absolute knowledge of the home buying process acquired with years of experience of dealing with more than 1000 homes.

Preparing a house is important for every seller.  To sell the home quickly and to fetch best price for the property the seller needs to give the house a facelift. There are plenty of homes for sale in Lake of the Woods VA that need careful planning and knowing to brush up your home to impress buyers at the very first look. Let us offer below a helpful guide as how to prepare a house and turn it into a marketable property for interested buyers.

Clean thoroughly and pay attention to smells

The deposit of dust on top of the fireplace mantle must be cleaned and you need to polish your appliances and faucets. You have to offer a thorough cleaning to your windows and doors. Maybe you can miss a few interior details for a proper clean and in that case a professional cleaning service can come to your aid. Besides cleanliness consider the smell too. Make sure there is no unpleasant odor in your home. Avoid any strong culinary smell like the bacon or dry sea fish to engulf your rooms, especially the day when the buyers visit your house. After all, nobody wants a house to smell like fast food joints. If possible, place scented flowers in the interior and bed of flowers around the open premises. Here below some must do steps to make your home sparkle.

•  Wash the windows and doors inside out.

•  Wash sidewalks and exterior thoroughly.

•  Clean to sparkle your bathtubs, showers and sinks.

•  Give polish to chrome faucets and mirrors.

•  Clean the furniture, light fixtures, fans and appliances.

•  Make sure the interior smells like fresh lavender.

Disassociate de-personalize

Buyers always wish to make themselves comfortable as in their own home. Your personal belongings and things signifying your attachment to it can prove to be a block before them. So remove anything purely personal from the house. Things like family photographs in the hallway or wall painting by your brother on the living room wall or anything of personal significance should be removed well in advance.

Arranging bedroom closets and kitchen cabinets

Buyers when making a thorough assessment of the house may like to look in every little corner and can even open closet and cabinet doors. If just opening a closet door things fall out, it may prevent them from opening any door further. It is recommended to arrange everything in proper order and remove things that you do not want them to lay their hands.

•  Arrange spice jars in alphabetic order.

•  Neatly arranged utensils and dishes.

•  Arrange garments, hang shirts together and make sure the closet smells good.

•  Arrange the shoes in the rack properly.

Interior Decor

Decoration and color is an important aspect of preparation for making your house lucrative for the buyers. Remember, always soft neutral colors in the walls suit the varying tastes and these colors are less likely to create a negative impression. Secondly, try to keep the home décor simple. Remove any offbeat art or decorative grandeur that may turn off the mood of people with varying tastes. Remember, you never know the taste of buyer and so cannot take bigger risks. Another important thing is to give buyers a sense of usefulness in every room. Making them clearly see what individual room can let them do, that is a good way of making a strong statement. No room should be arranged devoid of any purpose. Sometimes just little tweaks can do wonder in changing the ambience and feel of the room. If you feel updating a few fixtures and re-arranging a few things here and there can make the rooms actually sparkle, just do it.

Make small repairs

A creaky door or a broken window sill or cracked tiles or a hole in the wall, these can worsen your overall impression to the buyer. Do not risk taking chances with jammed kitchen drawers, broken faucets, jammed gutters or cracked tiles when your buyers arrive. Sometimes making small changes, repairs and additions make big changes in the look and feel of the room. An eye for the details like changing the broken legs of furniture, repairing the gutter system, replacing the burned-out light bulbs and such small repairs can rejuvenate a house completely.