How a Painter Can Help a Real Estate Agent

Selling a home successfully at its full value requires that house to look new, appealing, modern, and in great condition. This often requires a new paint job. Dan Mahaney, CertaPro Painters franchise owner, explains how painting contractors work with real estate agents to get a home looking its absolute best.

A painting contractor does more than just paint. The company is full service, full guidance. Beyond painting, the contractor often also offers services such as deck staining, rotted wood replacement, driveway repair, and power washing. A painter can be a real estate agent’s right hand man in selling a home. The company can take a lacking home in need of some real help and attention and turn it into a brand new looking, beautiful home, with no flaws for an inspector or broker to find. Potential buyers will appreciate the attention paid to the home and the wonderful condition that it is in.

A real estate agent can go about hiring a painting contractor in the same way as a homeowner or business owner would. He would reach out to a company, ask questions about the services they may need, and schedule an estimate. The contractor will work closely with the real estate agent to offer expert opinions based on years of experience. A painting contractor knows very well how to transform a home into top condition, and how to do it under a strict time constraint. The contractor can be a sort of voice of technical reason. If there is a limited amount of time, the painter can help the real estate agent decide what repairs and renovations are the major priorities, and what processes would not detract from a sale if left undone.

CertaPro offers a specific nine steps for real estate agents and the owners of the home for sale that will help successfully stage a home for sale:

1. Create an Inviting Entrance: This is the first thing potential buyers see, so breathe some new life into the house’s entrance. It’s a sort of warm welcome, and gives visitors a good, confident excitement about the home.
2. Clean Out Clutter: This is an easy one. Get rid of the junk or the extra stuff lying around. Make everything look clean and organized.
3. Float Furniture: Pull furniture away from being against the wall and toward the middle of the room. This will create more walkways and make the room look more spacious.
4. Decorate in Threes: This painting contractor suggests that arranging things in threes looks stylish and pulled together, but five looks cluttered.
5. Replace Old or Worn Carpeting/Flooring: Your floors are another giveaway to disrepair. By making the floors new, the entire home looks more updated, and gives potential buyers more confidence in the home’s condition.
6. Update Your Walls: Remove wallpaper! It’s dates the home. Your painting contractor can take paint those walls to make them look fresh and new.
7. Eliminate Pet or Cooking Orders: No one wants potential homebuyers to wonder what that smell is.
8. Redecorate Vacant Rooms: Got an empty room? Decorate, even ever so simply. Make the home look updated but cozy and lived-in, so people can imagine themselves living here and making it their own home.
9. Paint is Your Friend: Painting contractors are there for real estate agents and selling homeowners to make sure the home is updated and refreshed, and this so often involves a new coat of paint here and there. These customers can enjoy the same customer services as any other customer, plus extreme time sensitivity, as painting contractors work to make sure the home is completely ready when it shows, so everyone sees it at its best.