-Consider the spiritual background of potential buyers in your market before decorating for a holiday.
-Keep Christmas decorations to a minimum to focus on your home and its features and benefits.
-Less is more when decorating a house for the holidays while trying to sell. Optimize the number of holiday-specific decorations you display.
-Christmas trees and other large holiday decorations consume space that can make rooms seem smaller.
-Install and remove exterior holiday decorations 2 weeks before and after the festivities.
-Turn off lighted holiday decorations before displays, shoppers should focus on your home and not your decorations.
-If you have out of town guests, ask your agent to postpone visits until after your guests leave.
-Leave a plate of homemade Christmas goodies for potential buyers.
-Show summer photos of the house and gardens to inform buyers of the characteristics of the house in other seasons.
-Before showing, remove snow, ice, and leaves from sidewalks and driveways. Don’t overlook exterior entrances to bases, garages, and porches.
-If you plan to close on a home purchase or sale close to a holiday, check with your agent, tilt company, and lender to verify two business days prior to closing that they have all required documents and funds have been transferred to complete the transaction.
-If you are closing on your new home, select a weekday, early in the day, to schedule your closing time, to accommodate last minute delays by a mortgage loan processor, insurance or title company .
-If you plan to move during the holidays, please note that moving companies will require more notice and may charge additional fees for packing, moving and delivering household items on weekends and holidays.
