Episode 23: Preparing Your Home to Sell, With Cherise Tolbert

If you’re thinking of getting ready to sell your home, today’s episode is for you! Cherise Tolbert is giving us the inside scoop on getting your home ready to list for top dollar. 

Highs and Lows

Emily: High - picked blueberries at Ingalls Blueberry Hill

Cherise: High - Hanging artwork in new home

Low - Bunnies digging hole to escape

Kimmy: Low - Jude’s room reno going very slowly plus question about finish work on bed.

High- rug was shipped!🎉🎉🎉

Bre: Low - Art fell off guest room wall.

High - swapped boys bedrooms 

How to Get Your Home Ready to Sell

Cherise’s Instagram account and website

Questions we’re asking Cherise:

1. What is the situation with today’s market (locally and nationally)?  Is it a sellers market, or buyers market, and how can you tell the difference?

2. What’s a typical process for getting a home onto the market?

3. What factors go into determining a home’s listing price?

4. Walk us through room by room - what should someone do to get their home ready to list?

   1. Yard/driveway

   2. Living room

   3. Kitchen

   4. Bathrooms

   5. Bedrooms

   6. Home office

   7. Basements/Attics

   8. Closets

   9. Garage

5. How should someone prepare for listing photography/video? 

6. If someone listening has limited time, what are the top three things they should do to add value to their house?

7. What do sellers need to keep in mind in today’s market?

Domestic Dare:

Pick two or three of those annoying tasks that have been on your to-do list forever, and get them done!

Pillow Talk

Cherise: thrifted shelf for her entryway