Tips for Selling Your Home When You Have Children

Selling your home can seem like a daunting task, but, when you add your kids into the mix, the job can become a lot more stressful. Here are a few ways to take the stress out of selling your home when you have kids.

De-cluttering is essential when selling your home, but this can be a lot harder when you have the kids’ toys and the pram to contend with – boxes, bins and containers are your best friends here! Prior to any photography or open homes, it is a good idea to “take the home out of your property”. Potential purchasers need to be able to envision their family living in the house and this can be an obstacle when you have family photos in many rooms of your house, toy trucks parked up in the living room and a band of Barbie dolls sitting on the mantle.

If you’re marketing your home as a family home, then it can quite often be a good idea to stage your playroom – it creates a distinctive space dedicated to the kids and gives potential buyers an idea of how the space can be used.

If you want to avoid the last minute scramble before the open home, then a thorough checklist can be just the trick. It’s important to give yourself a realistic amount of time to work your way through it – let’s face it, the last thing you want to be doing is dashing around your home and picking up stray clutter just minutes before you need to vacate for your open home. Here’s a good tip: always keep the boot of your car empty for those last minute dashes out the door – that way you have a temporary spot (that’s out of the house) to store any books or toys that may have been left out.

Presenting a clean home is vital for any house on the market, but this job can be made a lot harder with kids. A good way to overcome this hurdle is to involve your kids in the cleaning. Let them be the ones in charge of cleaning their room and make it an enjoyable game (however, it can be a good idea to add this to the checklist). If you’re cleaning the windows, then let them spray the cleaner onto the window while you clean away the fingerprints. This is a chore that can be made fun, while keeping your kids involved in the process.

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