Selling your apartment
I have many friends who are selling their homes at the moment. A couple
of them have actually bought new apartments already even though the old
one has not been sold yet. I find that a bit risky but both of their
apartments have good location and have decent price tags so they should
not have a problem with it.
The key in selling your house during
hard or easy times is to renovate. Renovate it just enough to meet the
demand of the inspecting eye. The potential buyer should not find the
floors outdated or worn out. The buyer should not find the bathroom nor
the water closet to be too used or outdated either. The whole apartment
should give an image of being well cared of and renovated. It should
give the picture that it’s safe to move in and when the buyer really
steps in, it should immediately give a good vibe.
You can scale your renovation (in Finnish: remontti)
to be either really only a facelift or then do it the proper way. In
both cases you do a service to yourself and the buyer. For all kinds of
renovations you get basically everything that you need from the same
place. When you go to your local K-Rauta and you tell them that you are
renovating your house to be in mint condition when it goes for sale,
they will help you find the best solutions.
Selling a house
means that your selling a place to live for the person who is buying it.
You should not be selling something that isn’t really fit for living as
it is. This means that when you renovate, you should be thinking all
the time about the worst case scenario buyer who does not like anything
that would remind the buyer of the apartment being old. You should
really put effort in getting it into the condition that when the buyer
steps in, he or she feels that they could move in immediately.
If
you do it right and you get everything done before you start to sell
the apartment, you have alreay won the first half of the game. The other
half is to sell the image for the buyer of a livable and lovable
apartment. That is way much easier to do when the actual apartment backs
you up.
