Attracting buyers
Home Sellers With Extreme Taste
One of our dear blog readers who sold her home recently wrote to share a quirky home selling issue: Some of the houses she and her family toured before finally buying their next home, looked great from the outside, but once inside, they were bowled over by the home seller’s, let’s call it, extreme taste. [...]
Home Selling Advice from a Happy Home Seller
This story doesn’t start off happy: Jennifer, a home seller in Los Angeles, wrote to tell me about the difficulties she was having with the hefty demands home buyers are making on sellers these days — and wondering if this “bad buyer behavior” was a common phenomena. Jennifer had received her first offer within three [...]
A Home Selling Solution Worth Mentioning…
In this blog, I’ve shared a variety of ideas for helping frustrated home sellers, such as considering a temporary or permanent home exchange, renting out a piece of your home, your land or your entire property, and marketing your home using today’s latest technologies. But there’s another possibility I’ve never mentioned… If you’ve been having [...]
Home Selling In Winter: 10 Tips To Make Buyers Fall In Love With Your House
The good news about selling your home in the winter is you face far fewer competitors than you will come springtime. And, the home buyers who are looking right now tend to be serious. Why else would they be trampling around through rain, snow and mud to get to your front door? So, now is [...]
Home Selling Tip: Get Easy Winter Curb Appeal
During the winter, it’s a lot harder to think about gardening – especially if you’re a home seller who is sick of trying to sell a house! It’s much easier to think about winter feasts or sitting around the fireplace holding a mug of hot chocolate with a couple of half-submerged marshmallows. But I’ve noticed [...]
Home Selling Tip: How To Sell Your House In Three Days
A dear friend of mine in Las Vegas just reported that the couple living next door to them just sold their house in three days. I’ll repeat that: They sold their home in Las Vegas… in three days. My response, knowing the slow housing market, not to mention the slowness of the season, was, “WHAT?!! [...]
Home Selling Advice: Upgrading Your Kitchen For Way Less Money
As the days get shorter and the nights get colder, people tend to gravitate to the warmth and safety of the kitchen. But what if warped cabinets, ugly flooring, or cracked, crowded countertops distract from your kitchen’s ambiance? Well, you might think about doing a remodel… but the average price these days for a good [...]
Home Selling Tip For Comforting Worried Home Buyers
One of the problems of selling a home in today’s slow economy is that many home buyers have this odd look in their eyes when walking through your rooms. Don’t worry, it probably has nothing to do with your decorating skills or color scheme. It has more to do with their own fear and uncertainty. [...]
Home Selling Advice: Sell Your Area Using Video
Most everybody knows the importance of taking beautiful photos of the house you’re selling, but way fewer people realize the potential sales power of taking photos and videos of your neighborhood and its amenities. Often, house hunters don’t have the least idea what your neighborhood looks like–especially if they’re relocating from another state, another city, [...]
Home Selling Advice: Look for International Buyers
Did you realize that during this past year alone, a staggering $82 billion of residential property in the U.S. was bought by foreign or foreign-born buyers? The National Association of Realtors reported this fact, along with the news that this was a $16 billion increase from the year before. What makes this more interesting yet [...]