Create a mood ideal for showcasing your home such as playing relaxing background music, lighting a fire, adding plants and flowers, maximizing lighting and fine-tuning the temperature.
Showing Checklist
- ABOVE ALL ELSE ---- ALLOW ALL SHOWINGS, even if it seems irrational or is inconvenient, with short notice. Remember it only takes ONE buyer to buy your home
- Leave the house - go for a walk! Or get your errands done. Take pets with you
- Hide/ remove all valuables
- Bake a pie or cookies 2 hours before
- Leave some cookies on the table/ counter
- Blinds open
- Clean (includes: Vacuum/ mop/ Clean appliances/ all windows/ counters)
- Leave doors open
- Leave all lights on
- Easy listening music
- Detail the Landscaping.
- Take the Pets out - Leave the house - go for a walk! Or get your errands done
- Plan to Get Rid of the Kids for a While
- Don’t spray air fresheners instead - Instead Bake a pie, leave out some water + cookies + candy + leave windows open
- Light a fire (winter)
- Seasonal photos
- The right temperature 20 C
- Extra property flyers
- Put valuables, jewellery, passports, financial information, bank statements and other financial information out of sight
- Have property tax, gas, electric and water bills available for buyers to inspect
- Open curtains for daytime showings and close curtains for nighttime showings
- Open windows to “freshen up” your home
- Do a quick tidy up
- Play instrumental music
- Burn candles in kitchen and in the living room
- Fresh flowers in Kitchen/ Family room
Exterior
- Pick up after pets
- Pick up lawn tools, toys, etc. lying around the yard
- Clear driveways and walk areas