How To Emotionally Detach Yourself from your Candlewood Lake Home for Sale

How To Emotionally Detach Yourself from your Candlewood Lake Home for Sale

 

Listing your Candlewood Lakehome for sale is emotionally challenging, especially if you have lived in it for a long time.

                                     

Your Candlewood Lake property holds a lot of memories and has become a part of your identity and lifestyle. How can you forget a home where you or your children grew up, where you took countless boat rides on the lake, where you celebrated so many birthdays and milestones with loved ones?

Being too emotionally attached to your Candlewood Lake home makes it harder to sell. Since your home holds great sentimental value for you, you will tend to overestimate its market value. This will eventually lead to problems in accepting offers from interested buyers. This means that your lake home for sale in CT will be on the market longer than if it might have been had it been listed at a more reasonable price.

                                                                                                 

Here are a few tips on how to emotionally detach from your Candlewood Lake home for sale:

1. Pack away all your personal items.

These may include photos, souvenirs, trophies, and other personal stuff. Aside from making the process easier for you because it will make the home feel less like yours, it will also make the home a blank slate where it is easier for buyers to imagine themselves living in the home. This will help your home sell faster.

2. Think about your new home.

Whether or not you have bought your next home, it would be a great time to start thinking of your new home and imagining yourself living in it. This will help you transfer your emotional connection with your old home to the next home. Focus on the things you are looking forward to about living in your new home.

3. Keep memories of your old Candlewood Lake home.

Before you move, take photos of your old home. You can even make a video tour so you can always remember the home in Candlewood Lake where you used to live.

4. Get a third party opinion.

Ask you Candlewood Lake agent or a professional stager to look at your home and suggest ways on how you could improve it to sell faster. 

Emotionally detaching yourself from your Candlewood Lake CT home for sale will be easier if you follow these tips and the advice of your agent. 

Call Deborah Laemmerhirt now at 203-994-4297 and let her assist you with everything you need to know about buying or selling Candlewood Lake properties. Her years of experience as a preeminent real estate professional in Ridgefield, Redding, Wilton, New Fairfield, Brookfield, Bridgewater, Roxbury, Washington, Weston, Westport, Southbury, Kent, Sherman, Easton, and Bethel, CT, combined with her dedication to providing the finest service will make it easier for you to find your dream home in Connecticut.