Preparing your Apartment for Sale (Revised)

By Julie Finch-Scally

Preparing your Apartment for Sale (Revised) is an updated version of the 2014 edition. Maybe you are living in a unit or flat and don't believe your home could be classified as an apartment. But thinking of your humble abode as an apartment will give you incentive to make that property shine and look great for a sale. This book tells you how to go about getting that saleable look without spending too much money. Making your property stand out can only help and this is what this books sets out to do. It helps get people over the threshold where there is more chance of turning them from a tyre-kicker to a purchaser. With more than 25 years of cleaning experience preparing properties for sale, Julie Finch-Scally, The Guru of Cleaning, shows you how.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Julie Finch-Scally
• Release date: Aug 12, 2018
• ISBN: 9780992483616

Julie Finch-Scally

Julie Finch-Scally, the Guru of Cleaning(R) and founder of The Duster Dollies Pty Ltd, is well known for her advice on Cleaning. She joined the cleaning industry in 1992 and grew her business from a one women delivering pamphlets and cleaning to a franchised organisation across Australia employing and training domestic cleaners. in 2012 The Duster Dollies became a consultancy for Hygiene Management and Cleaning, with Julie writing books and articles for magazines on cleaning, becoming the cleaning expert on Radio and Television and traveling the world as a mystery hotel guest, reporting on the cleanliness of the rooms and properties. Julie is currently engaged in encouraging the United Nations to adopt the 2020 as the Year of the Cleaner to improve hygiene and the status of cleaners around the world.

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Preparing your

Apartment

for

Sale

by

Julie Finch-Scally

PREPARING YOUR APARTMENT FOR SALE

(revised edition)

Copyright Julie Finch-Scally, 2018, Canberra Australia

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.

The information provided is compiled from the best knowledge available to the author. However, since product development is subject to constant change, we make no warranty either expressed or implied, with respect to the completeness or accuracy or for any results that may be obtained by using the data and advice in this book, and disclaim all liability for reliance on information provided by us.

First published 2014

ISBN: 978-0-9924836-1-6

Donations of 7.5% will be made to Médicens Sans Frontières from sales of this book

PREPARING YOUR APARTMENT FOR SALE

CONTENTS

Introduction

Taking the first steps

The building exterior

De-cluttering

Making the kitchen presentable

How to improve the bathrooms

Tweaking bedrooms

Rooms of interest to most people

Cleaning-up and painting

The Real Estate Agent for you

The photo-shoot

Open House

Vacating the property

Three monthly planner

Acknowledgements

Other titles by Julie Finch-Scally

About Julie Finch-Scally

INTRODUCTION

Unless your apartment is clutter free, freshly painted and spotless, selling it is not just ringing a Real Estate Agent and getting them to put it on the market, As most apartments are overcrowded, could do with a thorough clean and/or a fresh coat of paint; work needs to be done on the property to make it saleable.

Maybe you are living in a unit or flat and don't believe your home could be classified as an apartment. In this book whether you live in a unit or a flat the property being prepared for sale will be given the title apartment. And, if you think of your humble abode as an apartment it will give you incentive to make that property shine and look great for the sale.

Once you put your apartment up for sale it is no longer your home. You might be living there, but it has become a property that people will be viewing. Those people are not interested in how you use the space, they are only looking at it from their point of view: where will they put their furniture and which room will be used for what.

Making your apartment a showpiece can be the answer, and many people chose to do this, but there are other ways of improving your property for sale without having the expense of a stylist change everything around and rent you replacement furniture.

Many Real Estate Agents will give you advice on what you should do to prepare for the influx of purchasers they are going to generate, but most are mother-hood statements like: de-clutter, maybe paint a wall, or clean the property. Simple things: none of them too specific.

This book tells you how to go about getting that saleable look without spending too much money. There will be a cost and take time, but if the results are favourable and you sell the property quicker than expected, then you have been more than recompensed with your effort.

At the end of this book you will find a three month planner. Of course you do not have to use it but I believe you will find it invaluable for helping you achieve the time frame you want.

Preparing your Apartment for Sale won’t guarantee you a quick sale. But making your property stand out can only help. If this can get people over the threshold the agent has more chance of turning them from a tyre-kicker to a purchaser.

The book is set out so you can choose a relevant chapter and act on that, or work your way through from the start to finish.

Hopefully you will find Preparing your Apartment for Sale enlightening and successful.

Julie Finch-Scally

The Guru of Cleaning ®

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TAKING THE FIRST STEPS

You’ve been discussing the prospects for ages. You’re going to purchase another home.