You want to sell your Metro Detroit house, and you want to get top dollar.
Excellent!
But “What do I need to do to sell my house in Metro Detroit“?
Here are some tips on how to get your home ready to sell if you’re looking for top dollar that the market will bear:
*NOTE: These instructions are if you’re looking to get full market value for your house sale. However, if you don’t want to do the things we listed below… or don’t have the time or money to do the things below… you can still sell your Metro Detroit house fast for a fair price in a win-win sale that’ll save you time and any expense.
1) Clean, clean and clean. Even vacant houses get dusty and dirty, so keep it up! Nothing short of sparkling perfection will impress buyers. If you’re not a total clean freak, then consider hiring someone who can help you out until you sell.
If you’re a slob, consider finding a place somewhere else to live while you show your house. Maybe you can bribe your cleanest friend to trade houses with you….? Seriously, keeping everything immaculate really helps potential buyers feel comfortable in your home. Nothing stops people faster from buying than feeling grossed out.
2) Cultivate a cohesive, neutral style. You don’t have to paint everything off-white. In fact, some subtle colors can really help change the perception of spaces – for example, a light grey will help brighten up a dark kitchen, while a dark blue or green will help a bright bedroom to feel like a calm place to sleep (but be careful, dark colors will also make rooms feel small. If your rooms are small is best to stay with light colors and or light grey with brown undertone).
Spend the money to get high-quality paint and professional help. Subconsciously people will pay more money for a property with just the right colors and very clean lines – it makes the home feel better built, even though it’s just paint.
Optical illusions are real, and psychologists study this stuff. Don’t believe me?
Look it up. And don’t neglect the outside and just do the inside, or anything else that’s unbalanced. I am talking about front door, side doors, garage, siding, fence? If you have a basement, how the celling, walls and floors look like? Any signs of water?
3) Fix or replace anything that’s broken. Yeah, it might feel like a waste of money to spend an extra couple hundred bucks on a dishwasher that someone else might just pull out and replace again. But really, quite a few buyers will get a home inspection and use the opportunity to negotiate with you. As the seller, you’ll often end up paying a lot more if you try to hide neglected maintenance from the buyer – and of course you don’t want to be guilty of silent fraud.
Make sure you stay in compliance with all the federal and local housing laws in the Metro Detroit area.
It’s often very useful to hire a home inspector to come through before you put the house on the market. If you ask in advance, they’ll often charge you a small fee to come back after you’ve done a bunch of minor repairs and deliver you a clean bill of health. Prospective buyers love to see an independent inspection report on the condition of the house – it makes them feel very comfortable with the purchase.
4) Make only necessary improvements. The biggest mistake people make when getting their house ready to sell is over-improving. They often spend too much money on custom things that can’t be recovered in the sale and not enough on the important things.
Paint is about the only safe investment – it’s easy to overspend on almost everything else, and it’s easy to get ripped off by unscrupulous contractors.
It’s important to know what improvements will produce a return on investment to avoid wasting money. How do you do that?
5) Get expert opinions. You should definitely find at least a few decent local real estate brokers who will help you price your property, but be honest with them. If you’re going to market the property on your own, don’t make enemies by lying about your intentions. Great brokers are rare, but they make more money for their clients than they earn.
6) Have a really great marketing plan. Again, great brokers earn their value by doing all this work and spreading the advertising dollars across many clients. It’s pretty expensive and time-consuming to start from scratch on your own, but if you’re already a marketing expert you’re ahead of the pack.
If you’re not, spend the time listening to what the best brokers do to sell houses in Metro Detroit – just to educate yourself on the options available to you.
7) Get a cash offer. We buy houses all over the Metro Detroit area, and we do all the work so you don’t have to deal with any of this stuff. I mean none of it…. No repairs, no showings, no inspections, no commissions, no fees close on yoour schedule and no hassles!
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Don’t Want To Do The Things Above Yourself? But Still Want To Sell Your Metro Detroit Michigan House Fast?
While everyone wants to get as much as they possibly can from their house sale… not everyone can do the things or wants to do the things required to sell it at full retail value to an end buyer.
Doing the repairs, cleaning the property up, upgrading the property, staging, marketing the property… those all take money and can take lots of time.
If you have the funds to do these things... AND you can wait the 3-8 months it takes to sell houses in this market… then you’ll be better off financially to do those things then list it on the MLS (the main property listing service that real estate agents use).
If you don’t have the funds to do these things... AND time is more important than money… then you may be a perfect fit for our local Metro Detroit house buying service. You’ll submit basic info about your house over here on our website, we’ll evaluate your house, we’ll make you a fair all-cash offer on your house, and you can decide if it’s a fit for you.
Then we can close FAST (often times within 7 days) if you need us to.
Take a look at what we’ll pay you not to do anything versus the time, expense and hassle involved with doing everything on your own.
So if you’re still asking “what do I need to do to sell my house in Metro Detroit“… now you have 2 solid options.
Either…
- Fix the property up and get it all nice and ready with the steps above to sell it at top dollar
- Let us do all of the work and we’ll make you a cash offer on your house in AS-IS condition. This saves you time, money, and gets the hassle off of your hands.
If you need to sell a property in Metro Detroit, we can help you.
We buy houses like yours from people who need to sell fast.