Listing Your Ottawa Home – Exclusions

Posted on October 9, 2009 
Filed Under Listing and Selling Your Home, Valerie Zinger

If there is one huge tip that I can give to home sellers it is this:  Do not have any exclusions in your lisitng.  Exclusions are those things that could be included in the sale but that you, the home owner, have decided to take with you after the sale.  Often these are things that make the house presentable.  Here is passage from a listing that shows what the homeowner is showing off but not including: 

“above exclusions include curtains/rods in Master bdrm and 2nd bdrm, mirror in EB, stained glass inset at front door.”

Many Buyers will focus on what is NOT included rather than what is included.  Is this what you want?  I strongly recommend Sellers take down their precious curtains and rods and buy some roller blinds to put in the window (and make sure that they patch and paint the holes from the rods), replace the irreplaceable mirror with art or with another, less expensive, mirror that will be left with the house.  Finally, the stained glass should stay or be removed and replaced with window wallpaper, if privacy is an issue.   

If you decide to sell your home tonight, take time to ensure that what Buyers are seeing is what they are getting.  This is a case of WYSIWYG -

What you see is what you get.

Photo credit:  Stained glass window of birds nesting there … @  http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/3355936980/

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