Think Green When Selling Your Home

•When Selling Your Home Prepare like You are Having Guests
Most of us do at least a few things to make our home more presentable when guests come to visit. Showing your home for sale is very similar. Think of preparing your home as if you were having not one but hopefully several special guests that will be seeing every aspect of your home. The following are some tips to help you properly prepare for your house buying guests. Clean. Nothing smells better than clean, unadulterated clean. Open a window to let fresh air in before potential house...

•Creating a Residential Commercial Part of Your Marketing Strategy
Simple steps to increase the appeal of your home to potential buyers Preparing to sell your home this year? The most common mistake many sellers make when staging their homes that you can avoid is preparing your home based on your personal tastes. When selling, you are creating a ‘residential advertisement’ for your home, so it must appeal to the audience you want to reach. Because the market is very broad, the look or décor of your house must appeal to a wide variety of potential buyers....

•Bringing Your Basement to Life
People don’t always spend a generous amount of time in their basement and therefore, it often doesn’t get the attention it deserves. This often carries through when the home is for sale. Research shows us that kitchens, bathrooms and living rooms are main areas of interest to buyers, so when we are selling we focus on making these rooms look great. But, let’s not forget that a simple basement makeover can also help you earn top dollar for your home. It adds that extra living space that home...

•Kitchens and Bathrooms Sell
People spend a large part of their day in their kitchen and bathroom. Research has shown these two rooms to be at the top of the list of selling features when it comes to real estate sales. A big open kitchen can be good for watching the kids while making dinner, but not only growing families are looking for a larger kitchen. Open kitchens are also great for those who enjoy cooking and entertaining. Take care to make sure your kitchen is showing its true counter and cupboard space by...

•Why Home Staging Works
Home staging can help you achieve maximum dollar for your home and sell it faster. Here's why it works: 1. Unstylish means unsold. More often than not, people can not look past empty rooms or even unattractive decor. Successful builders usually use model homes for this reason. Home staging will give the home a more unified, up-to-date, simplified look that people are looking for. 2. A Buyer Can't Fight the Feeling. House hunters usually start off with a list of things that they want in a...

•Where s your launch pad
Do you have a launch pad? You may not be Cape Canaveral but your home and office should not be without one. Office How many items are lying around your office that belong elsewhere and often take weeks and months to get back where they belong? There is a coffee cup that needs to go to the staff kitchen. A stack of photos from your vacation you brought in to show your colleagues. A gift you were given that you plan to take home. All these items create clutter in your office. Find...

•Tempted to Leave a House Empty
People aren’t buying houses, they are buying homes. Most potential home buyers want to see where they can fit in that home. Without being able to see furniture in the rooms, it just looks like a big empty space and potential buyers will find it hard to visualize themselves in the space. Here are some reasons why you should never try to sell your home empty: It is hard to tell the size of a room when there is no reference point. Furniture will allow the buyer to see the scale of the room...

•Wallpaper Woes
Wallpaper is making a big come back, but often our homes are left with wallpaper that is too personalized to be a benefit when selling. Removing wallpaper and adding a fresh coat of paint will be a real advantage to getting your house sold faster. Do you dread to even start stripping off the wallpaper in a room in your house? Not to fear, most new wallpaper is strippable, meaning it will easily peel off leaving only the glue behind. Test a small area before you start to see how difficult...

•Home Staging Say Au Revoir to Odour
We spend a lot of time thinking about what our homes look like when we are trying to sell them. Don’t forget that the sense of smell is one of our strongest senses. Because we spend so much time in our home we can no longer tell what it really smells like to others. This is no time to be shy- get an honest opinion from someone you trust. Chances are if you have a dog, love scented candles or enjoy cooking different foods your home could use some neutralizing of scent. This doesn’t mean...

•Staging for the Senses
People buy from emotion. Our senses are how we define the world around us and have a strong link to memory and emotion. What better way to create an emotional appeal for our home than through our senses. When you decide to put your home on the market it makes good sense to consider your home not only with fresh eyes but also consider the other senses as well. Smell We often hear about the tactic of using the aroma of freshly baked bread or cookies to fill a house that is being shown to...