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Real Estate Tips From Bette
Just a word on staging….. Question, why is your home not selling? Too many properties sit on the market for months without buyers walking through their homes or making offers. Why? It could be the home is over priced for this market, or it could be that your home needs to be spruced-up a bit; we call this staging.
Walk through your home and visualize how a potential buyer sees the use of space. Do you need to remove clutter, paint a room or clean the yard up? Is the carpet in need of professional cleaning? Look in your cupboards and closets; are they bulging at the seams? If they are crammed, buyers may think there is not adequate storage. Clean it up and clear it out. Rent a storage area for the time your home is on the market for personal items you just can’t live without.
Sometimes it is nothing more than moving your furniture around for better space planning of traffic patterns. Take out that over-stuffed chair and free up some space. Remember you buy a home, but you sell a house. The extra work spent ahead of time can really help buyers visualize your house as their home.
It’s approaching spring time, and that means time to clean up the yard. Whether you are selling your home or not, with the nicer days ahead take the time to clean up what winter has left behind. Look at your front yard from the eye of a new buyer walking up to your door; does your yard say there’s a lot of work to do here?
Placing potted seasonal plants at your front entrance gives a great first impression. Maybe have a seasonal wreath or dried grasses in the off season. Make sure entry windows are sparkling clean and your porch swept and have a clean doormat. First impressions are so important.
Cut back, spruce up and watch the fruits of your labor bring a smile to your face. Now where did I put that shovel?
A picture is worth a thousand words. When you are putting your home on the market, and your Real Estate agent takes pictures of your home, make sure you have done your homework first. People are moved by emotion, you can have pictures that help buyers visualize your home as theirs.
Are the pictures showing your home as the best it can be? It isn’t enough to turn on all the lights and open the curtains to help your rooms look bigger. Pick up your dogs dish, put away your cats litter box, do the dishes, pick up any papers and think of your home from the buyers perspective.
Are
there special features of your home that you want to highlight such as
a special window seat?
Put out pillows, open a book to capture the mood of a calm get-away
area ready for your buyer to step into.
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Bette Cantrell, Broker, SRES 1-800-258-3112 |
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