5 Things to Store While Selling your home

When selling your home, it’s important to start to figure out what to store away to make your home look attractive to potential buyers. To get you started, we have 5 items that should make their way into storage before you list your home.

5 Items to Store When Selling Your Home

Artwork

You may love that painting you found while on a vacation several years ago, but to potential buyers, artwork is often a turn off when looking at homes. Nobody has the same tastes, so be sure to store your favourite pieces and replace them with mirrors or neutral artwork.

Excess Items

If you love to read, but your books are barely hanging off of your shelves, it’s time to store them. Excess books, furniture and other household items should be stored in order to have a clean house and free up space for other more attractive items.

Personal Belongings

Whether it’s the family photo albums displayed on the mantel or the kids’ favourite stuffed toys, you should be storing these items. People who are looking to buy your home want to be able to envision living there and it just won’t be possible with personal items all over the house.

Unattractive or Large Furniture

The couch that grandma passed down that is covered in floral print and happens to take up half the room? It needs to be stored. People who professionally stage homes are often weary of keeping unsightly furniture in the home when it is being shown. You want to make your house as enticing as possible, so into storage it goes!

Lawn Items

Even before someone enters your home, they are wondering if they could see themselves living there. The long walk up to the front door can have a major impact on a buyer, so the garden gnomes, flamingos and old lawn chairs need to hit the road!

After all of these items have been carefully selected for storage, it’s time to find the right size unit and facility to house your items, here are some examples of sizes of storage units that are commonly found at warehouses.

sweda

Mike Olsen

18:58 16 Oct 19

This is inexpensive storage that operates 100% as advertised - they do not offer 24/7 access and do not charge 24/7 access pricing. They are incredibly responsive to requests to unlock doors and provide access. It is not fancy but if you need a clean, dry place to store your stuff, you can't beat these guys. Don't expect bells and/or whistles but you also won't be paying for them.

Dave Shirlaw

01:54 10 Jun 19

Have to phone to have buildings unlocked. Annoying.

megan chow

23:06 21 May 19

sara ~

01:04 25 Sep 18

Prices are 1/2 the price of other storage units but it shuts down (locked gates) from 10 am - 6 pm except if you have the enormous ground level outside facing units. Those hours are impossible. The technology getting items up to the second story is an actual forklift thats made stationary. You balance your items up the forklift (and you raise the wooden pallet up yourself) Then you must walk up stairs and hope their is a dolly available to wind precariously around tiny turning hallways. Budget carpentry and ancient carpet in the units. The trolleys sound and feel like their from 1980's and are either coached to disobey or they keep their own counsel. They say its secure but I had a neighbor pick something up and they weren't even asked for permission. I explicitly stated only I was to have access. They said they do not let it happen. The locks are your own, but the flip closure is attached by 3/4 wood screws easily and possibly quite quietly could be opened and emptied with no one batting an eye. A kid could detach it with anything. They have "24 hour security" which means a guy lives on site. Does he/she have CCTV access? Probably not, nor would you want that job. Are there motion sensors? Not likely as sometimes the lights won't turn on and finding a switch in the straggly wandering corridors is impossible. They do not offer insurance. You have to sign forms saying all the things you will and won't do, but they are not liable if anything happens: theft, fire, water, vandals, pests etcSo despite all those complaints, its still 4/5 only because of the prices.