9 Deal Sweeteners To Entice Home Buyers Into Purchasing Your Home
In a buyer’s market, it’s common for home sellers to throw in deal sweeteners to win over home buyers. Common sweeteners include paying closing costs or buying down the buyer’s mortgage rate, but these are costly. Here at Estately’s we’ve compiled a list of nine less expensive deal sweeteners to entice a buyer into buying your home.
1. Mow the lawn for a year
Ideal for home sellers with kids who need to learn life lessons, the promise of a year devoid of lawn mowing for the home buyer is definitely a deal closer.
2. Throw in a free puppy
If the existing carpets need to be replaced, why not offer to throw in this adorable puppy? Consider it training carpet until the puppy is house broken.
3. Cater their housewarming party
A catered party may sound expensive, but all you have to do is grill some hot dogs or order some takeout.
4. Help them move in
When helping them move into the house you can always fake a back injury or hernia if the buyers turn out to be pack rats or piano collectors.
5. Offer them a free pony
The offer of a free pony is most effective if presented in front of the home buyer’s children. Also, the upfront cost of purchasing a pony is nothing compared to the cost of keeping it.
6. Clean their old house
Look, you don’t want to clean your own house, much less some stranger’s home, but these are desperate times and they call for desperate measures.
7. Include the refrigerator and fill it with beer
You can swap out the malt liquor for boxes of Chardonnay if the buyer is a more sophisticated drinker.
8. Custom mailbox
Buy them a customized mailbox that reflects their hobbies or interests like this one from The Bus Box.
9. Agree to come over to kill up to three spiders at any hour
Do you want to sell this house or not? It’s time to conquer your fears and close this deal!
