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Daily Real Estate News | April 5, 2007
Most Popular Home-Staging Suggestions
In a slow market, it's particularly
important to get a house ready to sell quickly. How do you help a client
get their home in prime shape for showings?
Beverly Tracy of Beverly Tracy Home Design
in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., walks through a client’s home and sticks
Post-It notes on things she believes they need to do to get their home
looking its best. Here are some of her most frequently made suggestions:
- Fix any visible problems
that might be a red flag for potential buyers, including repainting
stained walls.
- Cover damaged kitchen or
bathroom floors with inexpensive peel-and-stick vinyl floor tiles
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if a more expensive change seems out of the question.
- Repaint public rooms that
will garner a lot of a buyer's attention, including the kitchen,
dining room, and living room.
- Clean up the exterior of
the house, added potted plants, repair damaged walkways, and put a
fresh coat of paint on the front door.
- Rent a storage unit and
get rid of about half the furniture and most of the personal items.
- When showing the property,
turn on every light in the house and tune radios on each floor to the
same classical music station.
- Suggest that the owners
refrain from doing much cooking (baking sweets is a good idea,
however) and put good-smelling soaps in all the bathrooms.
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Daily Real Estate News | April 10, 2007
Simple Ways to Boost Curb Appeal
The outside of a home can be just as
important as the inside in attracting buyers.
Maureen Gilmer with the DIY Network offers
the following five cheap and easy ways to improve curb appeal:
1. Edge it.
Make the distinction crisp between lawn and flowerbed or sidewalk.
Replace old edging materials with tumbled concrete payers — the heavier
they are the better they stay in place.
2. Mulch it.
Cover bare ground with two inches of attractive mulch.
3. Stain it.
Old concrete walks, steps, and planters
crack, stain, and discolor. Cover them with new colored concrete stains.
The result unifies paving and mimics more expensive stone.
4. Color it.
Worn out fences can give the property a black eye. Stain them with muted
colors like warm gray, soft green, antique gold, or subtle blue.
5. Plant it.
Buy whole flats of six packs of single color annuals.
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
Maureen Gilmer (04/07/07)
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