very home seller wants two perennials looking good, and if
things: a quick sale at the possible, plant some nice-looking
highest possible price. annual flowers to dress up the
Neither of those desires is appearance of your home. Make
unreasonable, but in order to sure your front door creates a
achieve those goals, you'll need warm, inviting feeling. If it
to do a few things to make you needs a coat of paint, do it.
home more saleable and different Paint is cheap, and the rewards
from your competition--all the will be worth the effort.
other homes for sale in your
neighborhood and price range. The kitchen and bathrooms are
crucial to making a favorable
First, look at the outside of impression on potential buyers.
your home, since that's what They'll be spending a
prospective buyers will see considerable amount of time in
first. If you've ever bought a each of them, so they'll be
home, you know that you passed up looking at the kitchen and
potential homes simply because bathrooms with an especially
they looked shabby and unkempt critical eye. Paint can help
from the street. It's just a immensely in these rooms, as well
quirk of human nature that makes as making sure that the faucets
a person think that if a home don't leak and that everything
looks bad from the street, it looks fresh, livable, and
will be just as bad on the odor-free.
inside--so don't let your home
make a negative impression on the Of course, the rest of your
outside. interior rooms need to be neat,
clean, and clear of clutter to
Keep the lawn and landscaping as make them look bigger and more
well-manicured as possible. Keep appealing. Again, if paint is
needed to brighten a room, do it, house, inside and out, and try to
using colors proven to attract look at it as if it's the first
your specific buyer's profile. If time you've ever seen it. What
the buyers want to change it, things do you see that would make
that's fine, but you want every a less-than-favorable impression
room in your home to make a on YOU if you were looking at
favorable impression from the them for the first time? Those
very beginning. are the things you want to
address--long before the first
You don't have to spend a huge potential buyers pull up in front
amount of money to make your of your home.
house appealing to potential
buyers. However, as the old Copyright 2006 Jeanette J.
saying goes: you only get one Fisher. Publish with active
opportunity to make a good first links.
impression. So walk around your
About the Author:
Jeanette Fisher, author of interior design, real estate investing, and home staging books teaches home sellers five ways to get more money from their home sale. Home Staging Free home seller's reports http://sellfast.info
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