Home Seller’s Blues Blog in Top 100 Real Estate Blogs for 2013
Every now and then it’s nice to get a public “At-A-Girl” for the work you do. So I was delighted when the Home Sellers Blues Blog was selected amongst the top 100 Real Estate blogs to follow in 2013 in an independent survey! What made this surprise even better is that it’s rated #54, following [...]
Ten Home Improvements NOT to Make When Selling Your House
In our last blog post, we talked about making home improvements that could raise your home’s sale price by tens of thousands of dollars. And it’s good to know exactly what these are — because some improvements can do the opposite — they can actually make it more difficult to sell a house. And the [...]
Home Improvements That Skyrocket Home Values
It’s amazing to finally be able to write this next sentence: Home sales appear to be heading upwards! Many Realtors I know are busier than they’ve been in years! If you’re a home seller — it’s time to get into the game. And, if you’d like to boost your chance of selling your home for a higher [...]
How Color Psychology Can Sell Your Home Faster
Using color psychology to help sell your home: As many people around the globe have discovered, selling your home in a slow economy can be a nail-biting, anxiety-provoking experience. Maybe you’ve considered redecorating your house just to make it more sellable, however that can be expensive and frustrating because you’re doing all the work for someone [...]
Home Selling Advice: Words That Sell a House
When it comes to writing a description to help you sell a house, picking the right words can make all the difference. The reality is that you are in direct competition with experienced wordsmiths who know how to fill a buyer’s mind with beautiful mental images. The right description drives house hunters and real estate [...]
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 [...]
Home Selling Spring Beautification Tools
Springtime is right around the corner, which means it’s almost time for that beloved ritual of spring cleaning! So, ladies and gentleman, start your vacuums! If you’re just putting your home up for sale, or you’ve had it on the market for a while, and it’s not quite as polished-looking as it once was, a [...]
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: Getting The Inspiration
I was reading Joe Manausa’s Tallahassee Real Estate blog post from January 17th, 2012, “Should You Wait Until Next Year To Sell Your Home?” and chuckling at the image of a skeleton sitting on a park bench. The blog post mentions that a lot of people are sitting it out… waiting until next year, when [...]
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?!! [...]