New Hampshire and Maine Homes and Condos

Portsmouth New Hampshire homeowners work hard to get
their homes ready for showings, and they know what we’ve been dealing with this
winter for weather, and yes, it’s snowing yet AGAIN here today!

If you have your home or condo on the market for sale, you’re faced with
the challenges of dealing with snow, ice and slushy messes while trying to keep
your floors clean for showings.  It’s certainly not easy, that’s for sure!

 


Here are some quick and easy tips to help keep the messes outside and not
inside on your floors:

• Keep walkways, steps, patios, decks and driveways clear of snow and
  ice - this takes some work, but it does 2 major things for you, 1) it
  helps to keep the winter messiness out of your house because there’s nothing to
  track in, and 2) it helps to decrease your liability because there will be fewer
  slips and falls if driveways and walkways are kept clear.
  
  

  
  
  
• Have a thick sturdy mat right outside your front door -
  provide a good mat to encourage everyone entering your home to wipe their shoes
  off really well.
  
  
• Place an good oversized mat just inside your front door -
  another great place for potential buyers and their agents to wipe their shoes
  well one more time, and for those who just automatically remove their shoes in
  bad weather, having an oversized mat will provide room for their shoes while
  still leaving room to wipe shoes and place umbrellas on.
  
  
• Don’t request that shoes be removed for showings - many
  buyers and agents are very uncomfortable walking around someone else’s home
  without their shoes on, and this request will not get the showings for those
  people off to a good start. 
  
  
• Keep a basket of booties or shoe covers right beside the door, or use
  plastic runners over the carpet and place paper runners over hardwood, laminate
  or tile floors - these runners can be picked up pretty inexpensively at
  hardward stores or home improvement stores.  You can often buy these shoe covers
  there as well, and those are very inexpensive, too.
  
  

I hope these tips are helpful, and if you’ve got others to
add, please feel free to leave them in the comments so we can share those tips,
too.



If you’re thinking about selling your
home or condo here in the Portsmouth NH and southern Maine
areas, I’d welcome the opportunity to talk with you about helping you achieve
your real estate goals.



Related Articles of Interest for Portsmouth NH
Real Estate:

• Selling A Home in the Portsmouth NH and Maine Areas
• Getting Your Home Ready For Showings
• How Is YOUR Property Being Represented?

                       

                                              





                                  
 
Ann Cummings, New Hampshire REALTOR
  Broker - NH and
Maine
  RE/MAX Coast to Coast
  Portsmouth NH
  ann@anncummings.com
  888-349-5678 x
3839
  Servicing the
Coastal Areas of NH & Southern Maine                    



                        
           

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