How not to sell your Austin home in three easy steps.

  1. Make it hard to get access to the home. Don’t let your Realtor put a lockbox on the home or even better, don’t put the key in the lockbox when they do leave it there.
  2. When someone finally figures out how to gain access to view your home, make sure you don’t leave. When a buyer comes in with their agent, follow them around, turning on light switches for them, and point out things you like about your home.
  3. When the agent is trying to talk to the potential buyer about whether the home would fit with their lifestyle, please be sure to stand around and listen attentively to their answers. That will make them feel really awkward.

All of these things happened while showing some clients around a home in Milwood today.

It made the buyers feel very uncomfortable. One thing that someone buying a home will do is to picture their own life there in the future. It’s hard to do that when the current home owner’s presence is so imposing.

Garreth Wilcock is an Austin EcoBroker® , and provides a free third party staging consultation to qualifying sellers. Search available East and Central Austin Homes, or get in touch for a FREE consultation on the value of your Austin home.