8 Tips to Sell Your House Quicker

Selling a home can take time, but that's not always convenient. If you're trying to sell your home quickly, you'll want to check out these eight tips.

1. Set the right price

As a seller, you want to get the highest price possible, but in order to draw buyers in you have to keep starting bid attractive. In most cases, there will be multiple offers, and the price will eventually rise to a suitable level.

2. Curb appeal

The first time prospective buyers see your house is a crucial moment. They’ll either see themselves living there, or they won’t. To make sure it’s the former, keep a well-groomed front yard, and take care of any cosmetic blemishes on the outside of your house.

3. Update the interior

If anything’s broken, outdated, or unpolished, you’ll want to take the necessary steps to ensure your home’s inner beauty shines through.

4. Tidy up

Put away any personal items (collectibles, family photos, religious material). Doing so makes it easier for the buyer to envision their family—and not yours—living in the house. De-cluttering also makes your home feel more spacious.

5. Arrange the rooms

While you want don’t want to hinder the imagination of prospective buyers, some rooms have unique characteristics that can be enhanced with the proper arrangement of the furniture.

6. Flexible visitation time

The more opportunities buyers have to check out your home, the more likely it is you’ll have a speedy sell. Night or day, and on the weekends should all be fair game.

7. Online listings 

If you aren’t on all of the sites that buyers frequent, you’re missing out. Usually, this is the job of the realtor, but double-checking never slowed down a sell.

8. Plenty of quality photos

If you’re on all the sites but only have three photographs, you might as well not be there. Once your house is in tip-top shape, feel free to snap as many photos as you please. Selling your home and buying another? Apply online to get pre-approved today.