Tips and Tricks for Home Preparation for Sales Photos :

Front of house/facade

- ensure all cars and trailers are removed from the driveway and park them out of sight instead
- keep the lawns mowed and the pathway cleaned
- remove all unnecessary items
- keep your windows neat

Kitchen and Dining Area
- declutter the area and empty the kitchen benches to make your place look larger
- remove everyday items such as dish racks, tea towels, rubbish bins, pet bowls, and the like
- put distracting things off the fridge like magnets, bills, kids’ artwork, etc
- add a large fruit bowl or a bunch of fresh flowers in the area

Lounge and Living Areas
- clear away all DVDs, TV Guides, magazines, and remote control
- keep the coffee table clear from any unnecessary items, but a few good books will add up to the aesthetics
-  remove throw rugs and couch covers for a neat and comfortable atmosphere

Bedrooms
- ensure that the beds are neatly made with new bedsheets, blankets, and pillow cases
- make it look organised
- remove irrelevant items in the rooms such as personal things in the bed side table, or posters from the wall

Bathrooms/Ensuite
- ditch those personal things in the shower area
-  tidy up your vanity and make sure everything’s in order
- Remove clothes hampers, bath mats, rubbish bins, and other insignificant items
-  display fresh matching towels
- ensure that the shower screen and the mirror is clean
- put down the toilet seat

BBQ area and Backyard
- keep it clean and free from any trash and wilted leaves
- kids’ toys, gardening tools, dog kennels, and pet toys aren’t necessary for the photos
- take the garbage and recycle bins away
- make sure that the BBQ area is clean and leaf-free
- remove the BBQ cover and open up the umbrellas

General Items
- ensure that all blinds all throughout your house are open and at the same height
- check if all lighting globes are working
- replace white globes with yellow ones
- make sure that all hanging furniture, photos, and wall arts are aligned accordingly

Transcript of Ready, Set, Shoot: A Conversation about Your Home Preparation

Episode: | EP84
Show Title: | Ready, Set, Shoot: A Conversation about Your Home Preparation
Cast: | Aaron Horne, Patrick Berry & John McGregor
Show Length: | 26 minutes 57 seconds

Patrick: Well, that it was always supposed to be an event for Tasmanians.  [Aaron agrees] In a kind of weird way, it was kind of cool that it was…

Aaron: We finally had a chance to lock it down and be like,  "oh, this is our event"

[intro music]

Going once... going twice... SOLD! You're listening to The Property Pod!

Aaron: Alright, guys! Welcome back to The Property Pod, your weekly engagement here into real estate in the Hobart Marketplace.I'm your host,  Aaron Horne, and I'm joined by our 4one4 Property Co. Sales Agents, Directors, all of the above: Patrick Berry and John McGregor.

John: Gentlemen!

Patrick: Oh, that's like a wrestling intro…

Aaron: Yeah, I've done one of those before and I got quite excited this morning. I'm a few too many coffees deep at the moment, but yeah, we're getting there. It's a cold cold morning

Aaron: Actually, [John: it is frosting] [__] of recording, let it be noticed, the Winter Solstice

John: Oh right!

Aaron: All those people were nude down at the long beach in Sandy Bay [John reacts] jumping in that water

Patrick: So, that's why you're late to work this morning as?

Aaron: Well, yeah, funnily enough, I've been working on a blog post or we've been working on blog post about how much we love Dark MOFO here and at the end, it's like: "oh no, it always capped off with the people jumping in the water," none of us have ever done it--not once. No way, jose.

John: I don't know if I really wanted to be. I mean, I've done nudie runs and swims the beach, I don't know if I need that to my tick box, if that makes sense. I don't know.

Patrick: I reckon John in these 70s, is down there with the red cap [laughter] they're still doing it 

Aaron: It's amazing, I love Dark MOFO. Dark MOFO is one of my favorite festivals. It's amazing that so many people, especially Tasmanians, are out in force in the coldest part of winter. It's literally always over the the longest day of the winter solstice is when we have our shortest day, sorry, I've said the wrong way around.

Patrick: Longest night, longest night.  

Aaron: There, yeah, thank you very much for the for the save. But just to see so many people out and about in Hobart this year, obviously, a little bit different with Victoria kind of being locked out of the state, because I think we read a stat that said or 65 percent of the tickets sold are normally interstate people, so only like 45 percent of people that go to the events generally, are out of status. This year, kind of, you know, there was a block on lots of people coming, so it's really been Tassie people, Tasmanians out in force driving this event this year.

Patrick: Yeah, I think I also heard like the curators of the event were saying as well that it was always supposed to be an event for Tasmanians, in a kind of weird way, it was kind of cool that it was…

Aaron: We finally had a chance to lock it down and be like, "oh, this is our event for our day," but look, it's amazing it's a world-class event that is held in our backyard in the time of year when nobody normally goes outside.

John: Oh, without a question.

Aaron: You bunk it down; you hibernate. We do have really really cold temperatures here, there's frost on the car, this morning, people are out in the nut jumping in the water all for the sake of art  

Patrick: I think what was really cool is it just brings the city to life. The life like the amount of people that are out over the weekend was just huge. There were people everywhere like lines to get into nearly every event that was on. It was just fantastic to see.

John: Well and like, like you said, people with lines everywhere, but yeah, from... like from, through the city part where they're called Dark Town, wasn't it? Then all the way through into Salamanca as well, where there are other elements was unbelievable.

Aaron: It's just amazing also to see kind of the re-imagining of spaces that you've been to and kind of just looking at them with a different light, like I heard you discussing with someone how the street lights were turned off next to the odeon, and it just completely changed the vibe of the stream and look...

Patrick: Before...