When English gardens used to be planted on large estates, they were not meant for the enjoyment of the current residents. The English realized that a garden may take 100 years or more to reach it’s full potential. The result, of course, were gardens that are still magnificent to see, hundreds of years later.
Whether you [...]
Curb appeal is important. Staging is essential. However, if you want your home to sell, you might need to do just a little bit more.
This hasn’t always been the case. In a strong seller’s market, where a nice, reasonably priced home will probably get several offers, it doesn’t take as much work to find buyers. [...]
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is one of the worst days of the year to try shopping. Everyone is out scooping up the great deals. If you’re trying to sell your home, this can be a great opportunity to get your home show-ready, even if it might mean braving the crowds. Here are some [...]
Somewhere between the time you decide to sell your home and when you start inviting prospective buyers to come tour the property, you will need to have your property listed. Most people use a real estate agent to list their property. To do this, there are a few steps to follow.
The first thing you will [...]
Halloween is one of the most exciting holidays for decorating. Between jack-o-lanterns, fake spider webs, front yard graveyards, and anything else you can dream up, there are so many fun and creative ways to get your home ready for the holidays.
But, what if you are showing your home this week? How much decorating can you [...]
I understand—this is a tough market to sell a home in. There are a lot of homes on the market, and not a lot of extra money, so some homes are having a really hard time getting sold. Here’s the thing, though; if you’re home is not selling after a month or two, there could [...]
The price that your home will sell for is the price that someone is willing to pay for it. This price may change from one year to the next, sometimes drastically.
When you are thinking about selling your home, it helps to know how the value of your home will be determined. There’s a formula, and [...]
Staging is important. Deep cleaning your home before a sale is essential. If you’ve been reading this blog for long, you know how important it is to have your home looking its best before you start showing it.
However, once your home is perfectly cleaned and staged, then what happens? Presumably, you’re still living there. Dirty [...]
Getting ready to move into a new home? Moving never seems like a difficult process until you actually get started on it. How hard is it to put things in boxes, right? And then you actually get started, and you run out of boxes, need something that you’ve already packed up and you can’t find [...]
American’s love taking things to the extreme: extreme sports, extreme makeovers, and now, extreme home selling.
No. I’m not joking. Just follow along, here.
It would seem that, with the current challenge of selling homes, some people have decided to take home selling to a new level by trying some extreme tactics to get their property sold. [...]