Attracting buyers

Home Selling Props You Get To Take With You

Most home selling improvements that you make have to stay with your property when you sell it. Light fixtures, faucets, decorative curtain rods, new towel racks, and expensive rose bushes are all part of the deal — the new buyer gets to keep everything attached to your house, unless otherwise stated. And you know, it’s [...]

Home Selling Made Easier With 5 Mobile Apps

I’m always on the lookout for bright ideas that will make home selling easier, faster and less painful while also maximizing the potential asking price for your home. Thankfully, there is an ever-expanding array of applications for the iPhone, Ipad and other mobile devices that will help you accurately price your home, improve its appearance [...]

Five More Tips on How NOT to Sell Your Home: Part II

Yesterday I provided you with five tips for preventing home selling success. Now, here are five more tips that cause home selling difficulty: 1. Fill your home up with giant, comfortable pieces of furniture so buyers can see how many things can fit into a room. No! Don’t!  Huge stuffed couches, chunky tables and plus-sized [...]

Five Tips to Prevent Home Selling Success… or How NOT to Sell Your Home

I hear this phrase often — I’m having a hard time selling my house! Well, it could be caused by the current market conditions or that you live next door to the freeway. Or, you might be inadvertently doing something that’s standing in the way of selling your home. Here are five tips that can [...]

Home Selling Tip: Five Upgrades You Can Do In a Weekend

Help!  You say your house isn’t selling? Your house has been on the market for months and months and still no bites? If your home selling price is right and you’re doing a good job of promoting your property far and wide, then maybe your home needs a little sprucing up. I can hear you [...]

Home Selling Advice: 5 Shortcuts to Cleaning Up Before Showings

Oh, there is nothing quite as fun as having to continuously keep your house spotlessly clean just in case a potential buyer comes by – especially when these buyers are few and far between. That’s why the easier it is to keep the house clean, the better. Here are five home selling tips for keeping [...]

Your house isn’t selling? This may be why…

You may have heard multiple times already that there are three main reasons your house isn’t selling: either the price is too high, something is wrong with its appearance or condition, or it isn’t being marketed correctly. Right now I want to talk about the first reason — your house is priced too high. This [...]

Home Selling Tip: How To Create a Home-Buyer Magnet

I know, your home selling experience probably hasn’t been much fun. But wait! Here’s a home selling tip that will make your home more desirable to buyers while simultaneously making it more fun to live in while you wait: All you need to do is identify a small space in your home, such as an [...]

Home Selling Tip: How To Gain Web Appeal

Almost 90% of all home buyers start their search online. With numbers like this, it’s important  that your property has as much “web appeal” and it has “curb appeal.” You won’t get many people pulling up to your curb without thoroughly engaging them online first. What’s the best way to gain web appeal? Showcase a [...]

Home Selling Advice: Five ways to safe guard your home

Amongst the difficulties home sellers encounter is the need to open your door to people you don’t know. And while Realtors often do a great job of prequalifying prospects before taking them touring, there’s no way to guarantee that everyone stepping through your door is a potential buyer — and not a potential pilferer or [...]