4 Ways to Make Your Vacant Lakeland Sandpiper Home For Sale Appealing

4 Ways to Make Your Vacant Lakeland Sandpiper Home For Sale Appealing

If you are selling a vacant Lakeland Sandpiper home, it has its benefits as well as challenges. For one, you don’t have to worry about negotiating move out versus move in dates since the buyers can move in any time after closing.

On the other hand, selling a vacant home has some drawbacks. When prospective buyers view photos of vacant homes online, they have a hard time visualizing how the room is uses, the size of the room, and the actual layout of the home.

Vacant homes also give buyers an impression that a home may have been on the market for so long because the owners have already moved or that there may be something wrong with the home and this may be the reason why some buyers might skip vacant homes. You may have a perfectly valid reason for moving like a job change, for example, but buyers wouldn’t have a way to know that.

Buyers usually make higher offers on furnished or occupied homes. Buyers who enter vacant homes struggle in visualizing their own stuff occupying the rooms.

There are ways to stage a vacant home to still make it appealing to buyers. Here are a few tips”

• Virtual Staging

For your online Lakeland Sandpiper home for sale’s photos, you could use computer-generated furnishings and accessories in the vacant rooms. There are some companies who offer virtual staging services  for a fee, but the catch is you have to disclose in advertising that the rooms in your photos have been virtually staged.

• Furniture Rental

There are companies who offer furniture rental packages, usually for 3 types of rooms (living room, dining room, and master bedroom), complete with accessories.

Before you select a furniture rental company, make sure to check out different companies and their terms since some companies will make you enter into a monthly lease agreement with a 3-month minimum.

• Consignment Furniture

You can go to a consignment furniture store and buy some inexpensive furniture to make the house look furnished. You could also offer them to your buyers upon purchase of the Lakeland Sandpiper home for sale. Note that you cannot add the cost of furniture to the sale price of your home and you are doing this purely as an incentive for buyers. This incentive makes your home more attractive especially to first-time home buyers who start with little or nothing.  

• Closeout Furniture

This is a similar idea to consignment furniture, but you are buying brand new furniture from the store. Some stores offer discounted floor samples at closeout prices. For a budget of $1,500, you may already be able to purchase living and dining room furniture. That would definitely cost you less than a price reduction on your home for sale.

Any of these 4 options can greatly enhance your vacant Lakeland Sandpiper home for sale and make it more appealing to prospective buyers. It is better to apply any of these options sooner rather than later so your home won’t stay on the market too long. For more home staging tips, visit  http://www.lakelandfloridaliving.com/.

Call me, Petra Norris, at (863) 619-6918 if you’re looking for a Lakeland Florida real estate agent with superior local knowledge, experience, professionalism, integrity, and personal service to help you sell or buy Lakeland Sandpiper homes for sale.
 

Petra Norris, REALTOR®…

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Does Your Address Affect the Value of Your Lakeland Sandpiper Home?

Does Your Address Affect the Value of Your Lakeland Sandpiper Home?

Your address (and zip code) can definitely affect the value of your Lakeland Sandpiper home for sale. In fact, some homebuyers even put more importance on what zipcode they will live in than anything else about the home.

Other factors relating to your home’s location that can affect its value are:

• local schools and public services
• travel or commute time to work
• crime rate in the community
• state of the roads especially during winter
• future developments (new mall, road widening, etc.)

All these factors affect not only the value of your Lakeland Sandpiper home, but your quality of life as well. Beyond these considerations, you may already be living in the next big hot spot and you just are not aware of it yet.

Even if you think your Lakeland Sandpiper home for sale may never regain its value in a tough market, just keep yourself informed and updated. Change may be on its way.

At the end of the day, the best indicator of your home’s value is based on the value of comparable homes sold in your area. To find out the true and current value of your home, contact an experienced Lakeland Fl agent who can help you determine your home’s value based on the current market conditions and comparable homes sold in your area by doing a comparative market analysis.

Call me, Petra Norris, at (863) 619-6918 or send me an email at petra@petranorris.com if you’re looking for a Lakeland Florida real estate agent with superior local knowledge, experience, professionalism, integrity, and personal service to help you sell or buy Lakeland Sandpiper homes for sale.

Petra Norris, REALTOR®…

Going The Extra Mile For You!

Homebuyer Incentive Do’s and Don’ts for Your Lakeland Sandpiper Home

Homebuyer Incentive Do’s and Don’ts for Your Lakeland Sandpiper Home

 

Homebuyer incentive do’s and don’ts for your Lakeland Sandpiper home

Offering buyer incentives like a home warranty can set your Lakeland Sandpiper home for sale apart from the rest. Make sure your incentives send the right message to buyers to encourage them to buy your home for sale in Sandpiper Lakeland Fl.

To make sure you are giving the right incentives, follow these do’s and don’ts for offering homebuyer incentives:

DO’s

1. Use incentives that will set your home apart from the competition.

If all the homes for sale in your Lakeland Sandpiper neighborhood have the same patio, offering a stainless steel barbecue grill with a luxury patio set will definitely make your home stand out from the rest.

2. Offer incentives that compensate for your home’s flaws.

If your kitchen has an outdated wallpaper, offering a decorating allowance of $3,000 may help buyers accept and purchase your home despite the outdated kitchen wall. If your furnace is old, a home warranty may ease the buyer’s concern of having to spend thousands of dollars to replace it once they move in.

DON’TS

1. Assuming that all buyer incentives are legal.

Homebuyer incentives may be banned in certain states so be sure to check with your Lakeland Fl agent before offering buyer incentives.

2. Using incentives to mask a price that is too high.

The risk of offering expensive incentives like a luxury car or high-end TV is buyers may think it’s a gimmick to avoid lowering the sales price of your home. Ask your agent if it is better to lower your list price instead of offering a buyer incentive. Most of the time, homes that are priced just a tad below its true value will attract more buyers and agents.

If you have decided that offering buyers incentives will help sell your Lakeland Sandpiper home faster, choose incentives that will add value to your home or neutralize its flaws. The key to getting an offer lies more in addressing the buyer’s concerns about your home than in offering expensive incentives.

Call me, Petra Norris, at (863) 619-6918 or send me an email at petra@petranorris.com if you’re looking for a Lakeland Florida real estate agent with superior local knowledge, experience, professionalism, integrity, and personal service to help you sell or buyLakeland Sandpiper homes for sale.

 

Petra Norris, REALTOR®…

Going The Extra Mile For You!