Bathrooms and Preparing Your Home To Sell Part 1 of 4

Home Owners and Home Sellers, you may or may not realize this, but what you are doing right now in your home, whether it is on the market or not, will make an impact on how long it takes your home to sell, how much you will make on the sell of your home, and how difficult or easy the sell will be.

You will learn that when your home goes on the market that any semblance of privacy goes out the window. Your house becomes more of a display piece than a home.

Since we are taking a look in the bathroom, you will agree that there are some things (sights, smells, sounds, etc...) that buyers (visitors) will not want to experience while in that room.

Can you think of some of these items? Some of these might be:

1. Personal hygiene items
2. Soap Scum
3. Mold/Mildew
4. Your shampoo and conditioner collection

So what do you do to prepare that bathroom for guests?

We have identified four things to do to prepare your bathroom for guests, and these are:
1. Clean
2. Fix
3. Sanitize
4. Finishing touch

Today, we want to discuss step 1. Step one is to clean. Cleaning can involve a large number of thingssuch a de-cluttering by getting rid of all those old bottles of shampoo, conditioner, medicine, and boxes from every nook and cranny of the room and cabinets. Next, comes the bottle of bathroom cleaner. Everything and everywhere, while cleaned out, needs a good wipe down inside and out. Make sure you check the shower for soap scum, discolored grout, and mildewed shower curtains or liners.

Now, this list is far from totally inclusive. It is to be a starting point. You will see many things while you are busy cleaning and discover even more as you move on to step 2 which we address later. Fix it!