It should go without saying (but of course I’ll say it anyway, because I have a blog and I can!) that there are about 10 zillion reasons to honor Independence Day in this country - and yes the fact that I can pretty much say whatever I want to on this blog - without worrying [...]
Rent storage space.
This goes along with your basic de-cluttering tips. Get that junk out of and away from your house, period! The best part is, there are companies that practically make this easy now. You pack the boxes, they bring the giant storage locker right to your house, you load it, they come and take [...]
Offer a bigger commission.
I touched upon this subject in Home Selling Tip #21 but I’ll expand upon it here.
Depending on how desperate you are to sell your home, you may want to offer any Buyer’s Agents a bigger commission than you had first planned. To make it clear, there is no set commission but you’ll [...]
Don’t apologize.
Don’t apologize to potential buyers for your home’s shortcomings. For starters, it will just make the flaws obvious. For “enders,” fix it instead of apologizing.
For the sake of argument however, let’s pretend that you’ve fixed everything there is to fix but you’re aware that the home backs to a busy street, or your neighbors [...]
Replace the knobs on your kitchen cupboards.
I don’t think (in fact I know) that sellers just do NOT get this one. They don’t understand that things like this stick out like a sore thumb when they’re tarnished, dirty, worn, broken, etc. You don’t want them to stick out, you actually want them to be “unnoticeable.” [...]
According to Metrolist statistics the average Broomfield home sold for $318,994 in May of 2008 and $322,374 in May of 2007. Part of this is due to a softer market we’re all experiencing, but part of it can also be attributed to the mortgage lenders tightening their standards. There are a lot of folks out [...]
This is Home Selling Tip #3 in my summer-long series of Home Selling Tips.
Replace the carpeting.
I know, the thought of laying out several thousand dollars all at once, on brand new carpeting that you aren’t even going to get to enjoy, seems a bit painful. However, I think watching your house sit on the market [...]
My dear friend Zephyr, who just graduated from college, inspired this post. He’s currently looking for a job as a middle school teacher (I still like to call it Jr High) which of course led me to lecture him on how he WILL be buying a home once he gets a job.
The reason he WILL [...]
Yes, I know, I nag about clutter (not my own, mind you, just the home sellers) because one thing that will kill a deal almost as fast as overpricing a home is CLUTTER. Today however, I’m here to say you can go too far in the opposite direction and kill the deal with an empty [...]
April 11, 2008 – 11:22 am
According to an article in today’s Rocky, the hotline in Colorado, developed to assist those in danger of foreclosure, has an 80% success rate!
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