Iowa Real Estate Investor

Here is some insider secrets to make your real estate smell good enough to eat!  Now I’m far too lazy to do all these, but the longer a house sits, the more tricks I try.

1.  Roll of cookie dough- You can pick this up at the store for about two bucks and it makes your house smell like a home. If your property is missing a oven, you can bring a toaster oven and do the same thing. I always set the cookies right next to the purchase contract.

2.  Put a few drops of real vanilla extract on a light bulb - This one is one my little dirty tricks. This will make your house smell so good you will want to slap your mamma!  Get the baked cookies smell without working.  If you’re like me, that is the only way I like it!

3.  Use food-scented Glade plug-ins- Yeah, this is OK, but more often than not your house will smell like a trailer home from the 80’s.

4. Scented Incense Sticks- These look great in bathrooms, but looked stupid anywhere else in the house. Plus, your house starts smelling like a stoner’s car from high school.

5.  Sprinkle cinnamon on a cookie sheet and bake it on low. – Yeah this kind of works the same way the vanilla extract works on the light bulb, this is very easy but works extremely well.

6.  Light candles- in areas that are safe from fire. Feel free to use as many candles as you want, however then you have to deal with possibly knocking them over, and having to go blow each one out before you lock up.

7.  Bake a frozen apple pie- You can stop by Hy-Vee and pick up one of these babies for $4 bucks. Throw one in the oven and just wait for the magic to happen. This would be a great half-aced way to do a showing.

8.  Put some fresh Bounce sheets in your furnace registers.  Some people say it’s the duct tape method of fixin’ the smell round  ’bout your trailer home! (It works best in the winter.)

9.  Fabreeze- works well in areas that other things don’t- especially in them funky areas of the home, those where some of the old owners used to go about there business without bein’ clean and all.

10.  Duct tape the toilet shut

What do you do to make a house smell good?  Let me know by leaving a comment below.