Common Mistakes When Selling Property

iAfrica asked Saul Greffen, CEO of ooba, to point out some of the common mistakes made by property sellers. Here are the nine selling flaws:

Overcrowded Rooms
Don’t overcrowd your rooms with furniture. This makes the room look small and not necessarily cosy.

Bright, Busy Carpets
Taste differs, so rather keep to something neutral.

Badly Built Extensions
A space that disrupts the flow and form of a house is not appealing.

Carpets in the Kitchen/Bathroom
Most buyers will be thinking of the cost of removing these carpets or presume that you are hiding something underneath them.

Too Many Colours
Buyers will definitely ask for money off should they not like your busy colour scheme.

Garden Gnomes
Hide these pieces because not everybody thinks they are cute.

Lime Scale and Dirt in the Bathroom
Get rid of grime and lime scale built-up. Buyers will remember the impression of an icky bathroom.

Gloomy Lighting
Bad lighting looks depressing compared to the cheerfulness that bright lighting offers.

Dirty Light Switches
Potential buyers might think there are something wrong with the wiring if light switches are dirty, so rather clean them properly.

Greffen concludes by saying that ignoring these things might be costlier than fixing them.