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Three Easy Steps to Prepare Your Home for Sale

Getting your home ready to go on the market can be an intimidating task. The preparations going into selling are usually stressful, cumbersome, and might even involve getting your hands dirty. This is especially the case if you're like most people and get your home ready for sale just a few weeks before putting it on the market. The front yard
If you're planning on selling in the spring or summer, be sure to plant lots of bulbs in the prior fall. Even if you don't want to maintain a flower garden, this will be a good move because by the time the flowers need to be cut back next year, you'll have moved out. Many homeowners focus so much on preparing the house that they forget that the yard will be the first thing that potential buyers will see when they come to view the home. A well manicured and landscaped yard will go a long way towards getting buyers to believe that your house is the right one for them. Minor repairs
Save a few bucks by planning ahead and hiring contractors in the off-season. Painters are not as busy in the winter so negotiating a painting contract during the off-season will allow you to get the job done for a better price. The same goes for heating & air conditioning contractors and moving your stuff into storage. Taking the best picture possible
How your home is photographed could mean the difference between standing out from the hundreds of other homes competing for a buyer, and not getting noticed at all. One of the best things you can do to get ready to sell is to keep a camera handy for capturing that moment when your home won't look washed out and colorless in a picture taken at high noon. Murphy’s law says that if you wait until the last moment to take the listing photo for your home, it will be dark and cloudy the day your agent shows up to take a picture. Even if you're not planning on selling in the immediate future, the next time after it rains, see if you can find the place where you can take a picture of a rainbow that "just happens" to end right behind your home. Come springtime, make sure to get an early morning picture with the sun casting its gentle rays down on your gorgeous flowers on your front porch. Little things like that can make a huge impact. With just a little advance planning, you can greatly enhance the effectiveness of preparing to sell your home.


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