Peter S. LeeThe Saward Team · eXp Realty
Sale-Ready Walkthrough
Serving Downriver, Canton, Troy & Metro Detroit

Fix it, stage it, or price it in? Most sellers guess.

A room-by-room plan for what pays you back before listing — and what to skip.

Free. No listing agreement required. About an hour, at your home.

Two documents from the sale-ready walkthrough: the room-by-room walkthrough sheet, with OK and fix boxes for each line, and page one of the written preparation plan, listing the five moves in priority order and what to leave alone. Names and address are blurred.
  • Room by room, in one walkthrough
  • What’s worth doing — and what to skip
  • The no-cost list comes first

Prep money isn’t equal. Some of it comes back. Some of it never does.

Sellers routinely spend real money getting a home ready — and a lot of it goes to projects buyers barely register, while the thing buyers will actually use against you goes untouched.

Because here’s what happens with the un-fixed thing: the buyer’s inspector finds it, the buyer’s agent prices it, and it comes off your number at the negotiating table — often for more than the repair would have cost.

Buyers don’t skip the flaw. They charge you for it.

The fix isn’t doing everything. It’s knowing which projects change how your home is positioned — and which ones just change your bank balance.

A walkthrough that ends with a plan, not a punch list.

We walk your home room by room and give you our take on what’s worth doing for your home, what to skip, and what to simply price in.

  1. The Walkthrough Sheet

    Thirteen stops, in the order a buyer sees the house, curb to back yard. Every room gets a condition read, and every line is one specific move: what to clear, what to rearrange, what to fix, what to leave. Most of it costs effort, not money. We mark it together as we walk.

  2. Your Preparation Plan

    Afterward, the sheet becomes a written plan for your home: your five most important moves, in priority order, and what we’d leave alone, which is usually worth as much as the list.

  3. Photography & Presentation Plan

    Presentation is positioning. How your home presents and how it’s shot decide which buyers show up and what they think it’s worth before they’ve left the driveway. We plan the shoot — and how each room should present for it — around the buyers most likely to buy your home.

  4. Timeline to List

    What happens in what order, so prep, staging, photos, and launch land in sequence instead of colliding the week before listing.

Two lists, on purpose. The walkthrough sheet covers the prep — the work that costs effort, not money. The scorecard below covers the bigger condition calls. Your plan is where the two become one list for your home.

Score your home’s sale-readiness.

Toggle what’s true about your home and watch the score build. Every item is tiered by what it typically returns at sale — High, Moderate, or Skip. No prices, no promises: tiers, so you can see where attention goes first.

Sale-Readiness Tally

Return tiers, not price tags

Sale-Readiness Score 100

Tiers show relative patterns, not measurements — illustrative tendencies, not estimates for your home. The walkthrough is where your home’s specifics come in.

Your walkthrough turns this score into a plan.

What you walk away with.

Two documents. One we mark together in your home, and one we write up from it afterward.

  1. Pages of the walkthrough sheet: the cover with home systems and the short list, the room-by-room walk with OK and fix boxes, and the keep-this-page-out lists.

    The walkthrough sheet

    Six pages, marked together as we walk: thirteen stops from curb to back yard, a condition read for every room, OK or fix line by line, and your short list.

  2. Pages of a written preparation plan: your five moves in priority order and what to leave alone, a room-by-room read, and what happens next. Names and address are blurred.

    Your preparation plan

    Written up after the walkthrough: your five moves in priority order, what we’d leave alone, a room-by-room read, and target dates for photos and launch.

Spend where it comes back. Skip the rest.

One walkthrough. A room-by-room plan with our take on what’s worth doing, what to skip, and what to price in — before you spend money on the wrong project.

Free. No listing agreement required. About an hour, at your home.

Book a Sale-Ready Walkthrough

Free. No listing agreement required. About an hour, at your home.