How to sell smart home products
How to Sell a Smart House
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all right so the title of this video
gave it away i am selling
my smart house if you want to call it
that just an ordinary house but it's got
some
smart upgrades so stay tuned if you are
either interested in selling or maybe
buying or maybe you're just interested
if your house's value has gone up since
you've added some smart
electronics around the house stay tuned
for some tips and tricks
what's up guys it's drew from taylor
tech and on this channel we do smart
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that i mentioned
whether that be the fire tablet that i
mentioned later on or even some of the
smart switches
that i'm keeping in my house when i sell
it those will all be linked
down in the video description below
alright so i wasn't planning on selling
my house anytime soon but a few personal
things lined up
and allowed us to have a possible nice
opportunity
in the near future of possibly building
a new house or finding another
beautiful house that we can call ours so
first came all of the construction
and getting the house ready to go fixing
little things here and there
getting it ready to be on the market but
then of course the light bulb came off
what do we do with all of these smart
things in the house do we
keep them do we take them with us how do
we market that
how do we sell our house not too many
agents in my area at least
really knew what to do with smart home
technology and
if we if we should leave them if what
does it do to the value of your house so
hopefully we will be building a house
in the future i'm just waiting until we
get to one million subscribers
so that i can afford it
that might take a while hit subscribe
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interested in
potentially seeing a smart house build
new construction in the future whether
that be a year from now two years from
now who knows
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course there will be all kinds of
content
up until that point of all kinds of cool
stuff but first of all what kind of
things am i going to take with me and
what kind of things am i going to leave
here
so i'm going to try to make it as simple
and basic
for a potential home buyer and potential
agent that is showing the home as i
possibly can
and what that contains is pretty much
limiting all of my automations you know
even as simple as
motion sensor turning on a light in a
room i'm going to disable everything
as far as that's concerned i'm going to
keep smart switches in
the main rooms of the house the three
bedrooms the kitchen the bathroom the
garage
and the under cabinet lighting that's
pretty much all of these smart switches
that i'm going to keep
in the house and the reason for that is
i don't want to over complicate anything
i just want to try to make it as simple
as i can while still making it seem
cool or you know neat for
someone that has no idea what this stuff
consists of
or what it contains and how it even
works i just want them to be able to
pick up the action tiles tablet which
i'll get to that soon
and pick it up and look at it and be
able to use it and say oh that's pretty
cool
it's a nice feature in the house i'm
going to leave the thermostat i'm going
to leave the thermostat in the garage
which is also a
wi-fi thermostat and i'm also going to
leave
the front door lock which you saw me
install
in this video and a few other things
around the house that are just going to
be really simple
like i said i'm disabling all
automations and i'm just going to have
you know basic on off controls from that
tablet and of course you can use it
manually on the wall just like any other
smart switch that being said i'm getting
rid of all of my smart bulbs i'm getting
rid of all of my door contact sensors
i'm getting rid of most of my motion
sensors i'm going to keep
the ones in the main rooms i'm going to
get rid
of all of my alexa enabled devices
all of my google homes home hubs now
speaking of that action tiles panel it
is
right here i've got four of my cameras
that's running off of blue iris
and i've got three motion sensors
for the bedroom six lights the time and
the garage thermostat and that's it i've
got a
gif of the local weather as well just so
they can see that that's something they
can add
i'm also going to leave this tablet and
the wall mounted tablet
that you can see me install in this
video here that's just to try to keep it
as simple as i possibly can that's the
key factor here because not only does a
potential home buyer have to try to
understand it though does all of the
agents
that are going to be showing the home i
printed out on some cardstock
some instructions to use the fire tablet
and they can use it if they want to it
says pretty clearly here that they don't
have to use it at all if they don't want
to
i know many people personally that
don't want it like to put smart things
in their home they just like to have
old non-smart dumb devices that's
totally fine
and that is explained in the listing as
well that all of this stuff can easily
be taken out or replaced by
an electrician with a non-smart device
and potentially even in negotiations i
can have it removed
myself before closing so if you're not
familiar with these fire tablets they're
super cheap
the fire sevens are around 40 bucks or
so i'll have a link down below for those
there's gonna be this one and there's a
fire eight upstairs mounted on the wall
so let's say you don't have any smart
home technology in your house yet
well you can pick up a couple of these
for pretty cheap like i said
and a couple smart switches you'll need
a smartthings hub if you want to use
action tiles
and to get everything working and maybe
a nest thermostat
and you can really get some pretty nice
smart things that a lot of people are
looking for
and maybe sell your house that much
faster now will that add value to your
house
no i highly doubt you will be able to
add any value to your house
by adding any type of smart thing to
your home even thermostats or something
like that
it's just not going to add any value as
far as what you can list it for
what that will do is it will add some
selling factors you know you might have
someone that is super interested in this
stuff
and maybe look at a very similar house
with the same price that doesn't have it
and pick
this one over that so there are
definitely some benefits to it
but you have to be careful with adding
way too much stuff or over complicating
it because it could scare a lot of
people away so like i mentioned before
you want to
definitely make sure in the listing and
in the listening description
that they know exactly what is staying
and
what is going so if you plan on taking
your smart bulbs with you for example
and you have that on your action tiles
panel or you just even have them in the
house and let's say they're
a different color they might be
expecting to be able to keep that sort
of thing
so you just want to make it as clear as
possible that you are going to be taking
that with you
but better yet just go ahead and replace
them ahead of time like i've done so
there's no confusion there
when closing comes and they're like what
the heck i thought this was mine
so i usually have wise cams around the
inside of my house and the kids
rooms to keep an eye on them as well as
one in the kitchen and the main rooms of
the home
and i took all of those down and hid
them away unplugged them
you know got them out of sight if
someone sees that in your home
they'll just get discouraged and think
someone's listening and probably get
scared or something like that
i did keep the ones on the outside that
are
you know just monitoring the home as a
feature but
ones on the inside i would definitely
suggest removing them i don't even know
if it's legal to listen in
or watch someone you know going through
your home during a lit
during a open house or you know a
showing i mentioned that i'm going to be
taking all of my alexa devices and my
google assistant devices with me
but i do make sure before showings that
they're all set to
mute so that someone an agent or a home
buyer can't come in
and say hey hey
hey just to listen
they could just say what time is it and
they're listening and okay they know
that someone could be listening on the
other end
i know an agent that did that not to my
house but i did see it
done before so just so you know that
could be
another discouraging factor that someone
doesn't like in the house
so good idea to go ahead and mute those
guys as well
and back to the fire tablet once again
you could be using an ipad or whatever
as well
once again that could be logged into
your amazon account
and they could go through that
potentially so go ahead and create a
guest
login on those devices so that if they
somehow get out of the action tiles
panel
they can't get into any of your personal
information and
that goes along with factory resetting
everything when you do sell your house
you are going to want to make sure that
everything is reset to factory defaults
whether that be your thermostat
your smart switches your smartthings hub
everything needs to be reset to factory
defaults when you
give it to them they are not going to
have it set up
with their account yet so it's not going
to be working
and you don't want it to be able to link
back to you in any kind of way
you're going to want them to set it up
on their own re-add everything
just so there's no confusion and why it
may not be working for them so you don't
get some kind of phone call
not saying that you should help them out
because that's just a rabbit hole that
you do not want to get into
but just try to simplify it for the
future home buyers and yourself
for security reasons by factory
resetting everything you possibly can
even your fridge if you have one of
those new samsung smart fridges
and you completely forget about it it's
potentially linked to your samsung
account which is linked to your
smartthings account
they could potentially get in there and
start messing with stuff at your new
location so make sure everything is
factory reset
and what you're going to want to do is
make a plan now
ahead of time all of your devices
what accounts they are and what you need
to factory reset because i guarantee
there's going to be things that you
forgot about
that you're going to want to need to go
back and reset on
one of the few last days before closing
and like i said all automations
and thermostat settings lights turning
on automatically
everything like that is going to be
turned off completely
yes we are living in the stone age at
the moment
it is very sad the kids walk into the
bathroom
and they mom dad it's dark
i can't see we're like what are you
talking about oh
right so it's kind of sad right now it's
it's weird
but it's necessary so all of that being
said unfortunately
all of that money that you put into your
smart home if you do
keep it at the existing home you're not
gonna get your money back for
hopefully it will allow you to sell your
house faster
so if you're on the fence if you want to
take some of the stuff with you
and if you're familiar with how to
change smart switches
and back to dumb switches or your
thermostat
or things like that you may want to
consider going ahead and uninstalling
those things
or if you really want to sell your house
fast you don't really care about getting
your money back for those sorts of
things
then go ahead and leave them in maybe it
will allow you to sell your house a
little bit faster
and be able to really have that wow
factor when people walk
in so if you guys have any comments
about this subject leave them down below
and let me know what you guys would do
differently in my situation
it's not sold yet so let me know if i
should do some things differently
let's have a conversation down there
let's let's figure out what the best way
to go about this is i hope you enjoyed
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