Quick, Fun Home Selling Uplifts
Your house may already be attractive, well-located and in pretty good shape… or then again, maybe it could use a little help. In either case, if you want to increase the chance of your home becoming the center of a bidding war, or selling faster than you may have expected, here are five quick tips for [...]
Five Great Excuses For Not Staging Your Home
As a home seller, you may have heard that staging your home before putting it on the market can help you sell it faster and potentially for more money. But then again, you may still not want to do it. You may feel that home staging applies to other people’s houses but not yours. If [...]
Home Selling Tip: How To Declutter — When You Hate Doing It
Let’s say you want to sell your house soon and you know you’re supposed to “declutter” it. Every piece of home selling advice out there says you need to do this — but you’re really not looking forward to the boring, tedious work involved. Maybe you’re the type who’d prefer having a plate full of [...]
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 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 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 [...]
Home Selling Exercise
Now that the holidays are over, most everybody is thinking about ways to get more exercise, burn off excess cookie calories and better organize their lives. If you’re a home seller this is good news, because you can actually accomplish all three of these things simultaneously! How? Since one of the frustrations of home selling [...]
Home Sellers Inspect Yourself!
Quick question: Who asks for a home inspection, the buyer or the seller? You may be thinking, “The buyer does, of course!” But in a tough market, home sellers can gain a big advantage by getting a pre-inspection first. I can hear you saying, “I’ve got enough headaches, without paying to find more of them! [...]