Get Your Home Ready to Sell...Fast! Do the Easy Stuff First.

From the Real Estate Home Page

This is the second installment of a series of posts about how to give your home the competitive edge when you are ready to sell.

So here we go!

1.Getting Geared Up
2. Do the Easy Stuff First

3. Sharpen up Your Home's Curb Appeal
4. Home Staging Basics
5. Inexpensive Upgrades for Your Home
6. Home Showing Do's and Don'ts

It's been a long time since it's been harder to sell a home!

In fact, you will be competing with a slew of other home sellers in the same boat. You'd better pay attention to EVERY detail that will give your home the competitive edge you absolutely need in this market.

One of the very best ways to compete is to make your home "drop-dead" gorgeous and ready to move into without the buyers having to "lift a finger" to make it move-in ready.

Over the next few articles, we'll continue to explore fun but necessary things that will give you the edge over your competition when you put your home on the market.

The National Association of Realtors article "Getting it Sold" offers valuable and doable advice for maximizing the selling potential of your home.

If this all seems too overwhelming, go ahead and get started by tackling the “easy” things first.

Make a list of things that need to be repaired and fix them:

– leaky faucets
- chipped paint
- loose hinges
- worn weatherstripping

In addition to the easy stuff, you might want to consider doing a remodeling project before putting your home on the market?

For great information, go to the REALTOR® Magazine of the National Association of Realtors.  Just enter "remodeling" in the search box and you’ll see helpful guides like, the "Field Guide to Remodeling” and the latest "Cost vs.Value" report.

These publications will help you estimate remodeling costs.  They will also give you an idea of how much value the projects will add to your home compared to the cost of doing them.

Stay logged in for the next post..."Sharpen up Your Home's Curb Appeal".


Kwik Kwote:  "You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations" --Zig Ziglar

Know Your Real Estate:  "EFFECTIVE AGE"...the age a property appears to be, based on the amount of wear and tear it has sustained.  "Effective age" is different than "actual age", which is the chronological age.

To search for homes in the Cary-Apex-Holly Springs, NC area, take a look at Triangle Estates Realty. Or, email me at Tim@TimHaag.com. Or, for a no pressure chat, call me at 919-389-7135.