Getting Your Hollywood Hills Home Ready for a Sale
You might think that selling a home in the Hollywood Hills basically sells itself. Certainly it’s easier to sell a home in the Hollywood Hills than it is to sell a home with a less celebrated address. Homes in Beverly Hills and other locales on the Westside of L.A. also have this advantage. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do everything in your power to make a home as attractive as possible.
Home buyers know that they’re in the driver’s seat right not. They go home shopping with the assumption that they’ll be able to get a cheap price for a home and that sellers will be desperate to sell. Because of this scenario, home buyers will take any evidence of a poor quality home and hope to knock a price off the home. Additionally, because there are fewer home buyers on the market, you need to give a prospective buyer as much eye candy as possible.
What this means is that selling a home will take some investment on your part – a new coat of paint, other home repairs, and potentially even new furniture. You may need a storage facility as well to store some furniture or other items. Depending on the layout of your home, you want the home to seem as airy and spacious as possible. At the same time, you want it to seem lived in – you want a buyer to be able to picture him or herself in the home, so don’t make the home to sterile and uninviting. If all it amounts to is hiring a maid to clean the home top to bottom then this is good as well. But trying to sell a home “as is” is usually a mistake.
About Susan Andrews:
Susan Andrews is a top producing real estate agent at prestigious Beverly Hills real estate firm, Hilton & Hyland. She specializes in Hollywood Hills, West Hollywood and Los Feliz real estate. Susan can be contacted at 323.829.8811 or by e-mail regarding her properties.
