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8 Quick Fixes to Sell Your Home Faster and For More Money

8 Quick Fixes to Sell Your Home Faster and For More Money
By Rick Merlini Live Well Custom Homes

Certified Professional Master Builder

With buyers having so many homes to choose from and scared of making the wrong choice, sellers must put their best foot forward before prospective buyers enter their home. Here are eight quick fixes you should know before you show your home. PLEASE try to look at these objectively from the eyes of a person who has no emotional attachment to your home and who is looking for a reason NOT to buy your home. A good idea is to have a person who you trust to give you their honest and non-biased opinion of your home while you walk around to evaluate what needs to done. By taking this advice, you will be giving your home the best chance to sell fast and for more money. 1. First Impression Are Everlasting: The fact is that the first thing every potentially buyer sees when they pull up to your home is the exterior appearance. If they cannot imagine themselves living in a home like yours, it will not matter how impressive the inside of your home is. So, before listing you home, go outside and make sure thata. You landscaped beds are not over grown and full of weeds.b. The yard is clean of debris and well maintained.c. The paint on the trim is not peeling off.d. The screens on the windows are not falling off.e. You go out, invest in some larger pots, and put some blooming flowers in them or if you run across something like an antique bench to put on your front porch. Just something different so they will remember your home.2. Color brings emotions and people buy with emotions. Paint’s cheap and when it is complete, it can make a room or a home look new, warm and inviting. So forgive those people who tell you to paint it white and keep it neutral. Go through magazines, talk with your friends and ask experts to find out what are the most popular color trends today. Make sure they match with your existing furniture, carpet and cabinets. Bring the color in. It helps sell homes.3. Kitchens and Bathrooms Sell Homes. These two rooms can make a sale or break it. Therefore, if you do not have the money to do a full remodel, here are a few tips.a. Make sure that before every showing that they are both squeaky clean and well organized.b. Changing the pulls can give those old cabinets a new look.c. If your faucets look beat up and may be leaking, replace them.d. Add 1 cool appliance to either room like a small wine cooler or a espresso maker to your kitchen. Try placing a small flat screen TV in either room. It is just something that the potential buyer might remember your home by.e. If your cabinets are in good condition but just out dated , there are companies out there who paint old cabinet with new epoxy paint to give them a new look.f. New towels can add new colors to an old roomg. Try adding a few scented candles.4. Adding crown molding can give a room some punch. Adding crown molding to a home that does not have it not only makes the home look richer. It also opens up the potential of adding more than 1 color to a room. Remember, paints cheap and effective.5. Wood Floors are preferred. If you have wood floors already, have them screened. Screening will make them look newer without having them completely refinished. If you have old carpeting that is covering wood floors, remove the carpet and have the floors refinished. 6. Organize, Organize, Organize. A home that is well organized gives the impression that it is well maintained. It makes spaces look larger than they really may be. Simply put, everyone wants to live in a home that is well organized. That means closets, garages, basement, storage area and attics and all those nooks and crannies. It also means those spaces not visible to the naked eye like inside your cabinets and inside your pantries. I mean everywhere and everything. Buy new plastic containers to help organize the things with value and throw out the stuff that you will never need and will never use again. We all have that stuff. 7. Update window treatments. If the original window treatments were in style when you bought your home 10 years ago, there is a very good chance they are outdated today. Buyers want light and views, so make sure you give it to them. Window treatments are also another chance to bring color into a room and another chance for your home to say, “I am in style”.8. New carpet can make sale. If your carpet is matted, or has signs of traffic patterns in it, it is time to replace it. Not only does old carpeting detract buyers, it also retains odors in a home that we as owner of the home get use to. Where we may not find them offensive, a prospective buyer may. By doing the things we just mentioned above, you will give your home the best chance to sell faster and for more money. It is obvious that by reading this article you are interested in selling your home and moving on with the next chapter in your life. So let us take your emotional attachment away from this house and make new ones with the next home.I hope this information can help you. If you have any question about this information or any other question, feel free to contact me at . You can also visit our web site . Thank You

8 Quick Fixes to Sell Your Home Faster and For More Money

Certified Professional Master Builder

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