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THE MOST MONEY FOR YOUR HOME When you are selling a house, most of the time you will share the same goal - to sell it quickly and at the highest price possible. If you've placed your house
on the market, you may have possibly enjoyed the thrill of receiving
that first offer. Unfortunately, you may have also experienced the disappointment
of a low offer, or one that doesn't come for weeks or months. The easiest way to understand this is to think about your own experience of purchasing a home. You probably had some idea of what you were looking for, and you probably clutched a list of desirable features. You may have looked at several houses, but none of them were just right. Then one day it happened when you least expected it - there your home was. Within minutes you knew this was the one; you were overtaken with emotion. If two houses are similar, buyers will choose the one that touches them more emotionally. The same mentality applies when the roles are reversed, when you are the seller and not the buyer. Only when a buyer "feels" as if your house can be a home will they realize that it could be. The emotion overpowering the prospective buyer can be compared to love at first sight. There are several ways to approach a buyer, but one of the most important ways is to make sure when your house is ready to be placed on the market, it will appeal to the largest audience. Selling your house should be quick, smooth and profitable. Dressing your house to achieve a profitable sale can help you buy your own dream home. One of the first steps is Un-cluttering the home! Clutter makes rooms as well as the entire house feel smaller. Uncluttering can make every room in your house look and feel more spacious. Your goal is to create a roomy, comfortable feeling that will invite prospective buyers. Uncluttering also means getting organized. It helps when buyers see that you have a place for everything and everything in its place. By putting everything away neatly, empowers buyers to feel that by living in your house they, too, could be well organized. In the end, less is more. Another important step is cleaning - not just everyday cleaning, but a thorough deep clean. A deeply clean house not only looks great, it feels uplifting, and gives the atmosphere of being as new as when you first bought it. You will want to remove any old and stained carpeting and replacing it with light colored tiles to give the impression of a large, clean room. Unclean homes create doubt and apprehension in a prospective buyer. If anyone in your household smokes, you might want to smoke outside, and use a carpet freshening agent each time you vacuum. This way you will open your home up to non-smoking buyers as well. Burning scented candles or baking a batch of cookies will give your house that homey, lived-in feeling. Once you have done away with the clutter, and your house is sparkling clean, and the scent of cookies baking in the oven is permeating the entrance to your house, your next step should be to concentrate on repairs. Homes usually do not sell for top dollar if any details, whether large or small, are in need of maintenance. These repairs would include a leaky faucet, a cracked tile, or peeling paint. These may signal a warning to a buyer, creating fear that larger maintenance problems could be waiting just beneath the surface. Make a complete list of repairs, small and large. Try to look at the house through the buyer's eyes. Start by replace any cracked or broken window panes, repair wood rot, re-caulk where needed, patch all cracks and nail holes, replace missing or loose tiles, replace old carpet, tighten loose doorknobs, and lubricate squeaky hinges. These fix-ups will greatly help you receive the offer you are hoping for . Advise about Pets: Pets that live in your house will make a strong, possibly negative statement. Research has shown that half of all potential buyers are either allergic to, dislike, or are afraid of pets. When your house is on the market, keep Fido outside as much as possible. If that's not possible, be sure to clean, vacuum and neutralize odors daily to keep your house fresh. Consider asking a neighbor to help by watching your pet in their home while you're showing your house to prospective buyers. There is no magic in getting the most for your
home. Every house will sell - eventually? - it's just a matter of when
and for how much. There is a buyer for every home, hopefully this will
help you attract the buyer that will pay you TOP DOLLAR!
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