#14: How to Prep Your Home to Sell for Top Dollar
A Beautiful Mess Podcast
Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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As you know we're listing our home soon (we shared details of our upcoming move in Episode 12). We've been prepping our home to sell, and I enlisted my realtor, Daniel, for his advice to how to best prep and stage a home to sell. We also try out three new segments at the end- so let us know which one is your favorite! Shownotes at abeautifulmess.com/podcast, and you can write in to [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the A Beautiful Mus podcast. This week's episode is all about |
| 0:10.4 | how to prep your home to sell. We've got tips from our realtor as well as mistakes that sellers commonly make. |
| 0:16.0 | We're also going to rapid fire three new segments. This week's episode is sponsored by Agility Bed. We'll talk more about them in the episode. |
| 0:23.6 | Can you tell us else? How many houses have you lived in that you had to sell? |
| 0:28.0 | We've basically sold two houses. We've sold the one in Missouri that we lived in before we moved and took a while to sell |
| 0:36.2 | About a year I think which is way longer than you would hope for and then we sold our first Airbnb in Nashville earlier this year |
| 0:48.2 | after our permit was taken away and we decided the best course for us was to sell it and reinvest the money into a property that could qualify for a permit and that's what we did and it took about four months to sell but it that even felt like way too long for me it was stressful |
| 1:09.1 | We had over a hundred showings which is a lot. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah and there was kind of constant to-do's |
| 1:15.2 | during that time and I even sent pictures of it |
| 1:18.5 | in the listing to Sherry from Young House Love |
| 1:21.1 | because you know she stages houses as one of her side jobs and I was |
| 1:25.9 | like what's wrong with us and she was like it's not the house it's the price. |
| 1:30.3 | I know and I was like dang it that's like the worst so yeah we did end up selling it for a little bit of a lower price |
| 1:38.8 | but you know whatever I'd rather shoot high and go down a little bit than not shoot high at all and sell it the first day, right? |
| 1:46.0 | But yeah, it was frustrating. |
| 1:48.0 | So we're about to list our home that we currently live in in about a month and it and I'm |
| 1:56.2 | nervous I'm super super nervous because we've never sold a home like the first |
| 2:00.5 | week that would be amazing that's what I'm hoping for obviously so this |
| 2:05.9 | whole episode is about things to do to get prepped also things that we've like crazy |
| 2:10.4 | things we've seen when we were house shopping that kind of turned us off from different |
| 2:16.4 | homes. And yeah, I just kind of, I think it's definitely worth a whole episode because |
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