Tips on selling your home

I assume moving out first is out of the question? Good luck. You'll be glad when it's over.

Clean house - particularly bathrooms and kitchen
Remove personal items from view
Take valuables
Fix visible damage / repair
Enhance curb appeal, mow lawn etc
Take your dogs with you and remove their food water bowls etc
Don’t hang around the corner like stalkers while waiting

Set aside certain days of week it can be shown might be an option

I would look at it from the eyes of the buyer, except you should know most of the quirks about your house. When I was looking, I did go to a listing in the afternoon but never in the evening. It just seems like an inconvenient time for most parties. We did a lot of visits either on a lunch break or in a Sunday open house.

I'm not sure where you live, but I would say just be patient in the buying process. Houses aren't selling like they were in January. It might take time, or it can be quick if the price is right.

Might I ask what your reason for selling is?

I'm not sure what type of dog owner you are but I would 100000% do everything to make it look like a dog doesn't live there. Eliminate smells and fix anything cosmetic that dogs have gotten their teeth and paws on.

Unless you're cooking durian I don't think you will have issues regarding that. Your realtor would likely contact you in the evening if someone wanted to visit late in the day. Again, I don't think the demand is there to where someone absolutely needs to see your house or else they move on. You should be fine.

Declutter !

Remove all personal photos and knickknacks.
Clean.
Clean some more.
Scoop up all dogshite every day.
Have all dog beds, bowls, and toys as unobtrusive as possible. (A lot of buyers don’t want to see all that).
Declutter the backyard as much as possible.
Keep the grass cut.

You should be able to cook regularly, as long as it’s not fried fish or something like that.
Be ready to scoop up everything lying around at a moments notice to evacuate for the showing.

Hope this is some help.

It is a starter home in a great school district.
I’d love to make as much as possible on this home to go towards remodeling on our new home but I’m not trying to unrealistic on our price.

We’re in the process of decluttering and making our house market ready. Our realtor hasn’t walked through yet but will this week. I trust her and could ask her all these questions, but like I said I just wanted some feedback from the fine folks on H&G board

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What do we do with the dogs?

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Take them with you

Rent a storage unit and seriously declutter, especially closets and storage areas. Keep the yard mowed, you may want to water often to keep the yard looking as good as possible.

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We have to sell our home before we can buy our new one. So moving out is out of the question.

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Maybe, maybe not.

Look into a bridge loan.

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What do we do with the dogs?

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When I was viewing homes last summer, there was one family that decided to put their dogs in a cage in a closed garage.
I would have preferred to have the dog running around the house than in a 120 degree garage in the summertime. The rest of the house was not very well kept up, they seemed like trashy people.

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Pictures are important don’t skimp.

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I have 2 stories to validate this.
One, when we sold our house, the realtor took poor photos of our house and we weren't getting many hits. Got him to add a number of improved photos,, boom sold it..

Two, we foster cats and dogs. We'll take as good of pictures we can, but they generally aren't good. Not many applications. We now use a professional pet photographer, now we get tons of applications.