Selling a Vacation Home or Condo

Selling your vacation home or condo can be difficult when you don't have the convenience of living nearby. Plan for your sale and make your home a marketable product. Let Incline at Tahoe help you get your vacation home ready for sale with these few tips.

• Detach Yourself From Your Home -- Tell yourself that your vacation home is strictly a product to sell. Make the mental decision to let go of it.
• De-Personalize -- Buyers don't want to see another family living in their future vacation home; they want to see themselves living there. So pack up your family pictures and put them away for a while.
• Clean up Your Closets and Cabinets -- When buyers open your hidden nooks and crannies, organized storage helps them see the space as usable.
• Rent a Storage Unit -- Leave enough furniture to show buyers what each room is for, but remove the extra chairs, tables and shelves to provide plenty of walking area.
• Remove Favorite Items -- Any window coverings, appliances or fixtures that you want to take with you should be removed and replaced with a substitute.
• Fix and Repair -- Replace flooring and tiles, patch walls, fix leaking faucets, replace burned-out lightbulbs. If your walls are a bold color, consider painting them in neutral shades.
• Clean! -- Wash windows, dust away cobwebs, polish chrome faucets, clean the refrigerator, vacuum daily. Rent a pressure washer to clean your home's exterior and walkways. Replace anything dingy with something fresh and sparkling.
• Take Another Look -- Stand outside your front door and in each hallway, and look at your house from a buyer's eyes. If necessary, ask a friend or neighbor to look for you. Does it look like nobody lives in this house?
• Clean up the Exterior -- Keep your yard trimmed and flowers fresh. Clear sidewalks and make sure visitors can read your house number.

Let Incline at Tahoe help you with some of this, and then let us do the rest!