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Great Bathrooms Sell Homes: 10 Staging Tips for a Speedier Sale

Great Bathrooms Sell Homes: 10 Staging Tips for a Speedier Sale

Great Bathrooms Sell Homes - If you want to sell your home quickly and for top dollar, you need to give buyers what they crave. Increasingly, those buyers are looking for killer bathrooms, ones that combine practical needs with luxury accouterments.

The bathroom is arguably the most important room in the home from a real estate perspective, so putting it in its best light is essential for a fast sale. Whether your bathroom is newly renovated or as old as your home, the right staging can make a world of difference. Here are 10 bathroom staging tips that will have your bathroom looking better than ever.

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First Impressions Count: 7 Tips for Effective Entryway Staging

First Impressions Count: 7 Tips for Effective Entryway Staging

7 Tips for Effective Entryway Staging - When welcoming viewers into your home, making an immediate good impression is vital if you want to encourage a sale. Staging your entryway is hugely important for this, and here are seven tips on how to do it effectively.

1) From the Outside

Your viewers' impressions of your home will begin before they've even entered. If your exterior door is looking a little old and weathered, a lick of paint or a thorough clean will make a huge difference. Also, clean, polish, or replace the house numbers and other hardware to make sure they're fresh and sparkling.

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Selling an Environmentally Friendly Home? Here Are 3 Tips

Selling an Environmentally Friendly Home? Here Are 3 Tips

If the home that you are selling is designed with the environment in mind, its eco-friendly features can help command a premium on the market among homebuyers who care for the environment. The benefits to the environment aside, eco-friendly homes come with the promise of smaller energy bills, something that can actually increase their value on the market.

Some studies have revealed that adding solar panels to the roof of a home can raise its value by as much as $20,000. In the state of California, for example, green-labeled homes sell at a premium of close to ten percent.

If you have a green home to sell, taking advantage of its environmental credentials requires that you know how to communicate its positives to potential buyers. Here are tips.

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Sell Your Home Faster by Staging Your Swimming Pool

Sell Your Home Faster by Staging Your Swimming Pool

Sell Your Home Faster by Staging Your Swimming Pool – Home staging is more effective at selling houses than any other method of real estate marketing.* Staging appeals to buyers on an emotional level, allowing them to envision themselves living in a home. Staging is critical if you want top dollar for your property.

If your home has a swimming pool, don’t forget to stage your pool area in addition to your indoor rooms. Some buyers look at pools as nothing but an extra expense of money and time. With the proper staging, however, your pool will become a major selling point. Here are five tips to help you stage your pool for maximum appeal.

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Tips for Staging Your Home to Sell

Tips for Staging Your Home to Sell

Tips for Staging Your Home to Sell – Staging a home involves the strategic placement of furniture and decor in clean, depersonalized surroundings. According to the National Association of Realtors, over 75 percent of buyers’ agents state the necessity of staging. Almost one-third of sellers’ agents say it leads to a higher price and quicker sale. Here is how you can use staging to make a home for sale look its best.

Eliminate Clutter

When it comes to attracting buyers, any personal and non-essential items count as clutter. Pack up everything you don’t need, and remove it from the property. Since house hunters will open doors, make sure to clean the closets too.

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5 Reasons You Need to Hire Professional Movers

5 Reasons You Need to Hire Professional Movers

5 Reasons You Need to Hire Professional Movers – While moving may feel like a task you can easily do yourself, it can be more frustrating than it appears. Especially if you are moving somewhere for the first time, you might underestimate the level of difficulty of packing up your entire home and moving somewhere new. You can reduce stress and minimize difficulty by hiring professional movers. Here are five ways you will benefit if you pay professional movers.
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Expenses Associated With Buying A First Home

Expenses Associated With Buying A First Home

Expenses Associated With Buying A First Home - When buying a home for the first time, it's important to remember there are a number of expenses that will occur in addition to your down payment. Too often, home buyers aren't aware of the extra costs associated with a home purchase and aren't prepared for them.

Know The Expenses Associated With A Home Purchase

First-time home buyers think about the down payment, closing costs, insurance, and mortgage payment, but there are many more expenses to be aware of when purchasing a home. Such a large investment impacts your overall financial health, and the expenses continue after the purchase.

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The Benefits of Staging a Home for Sale

The Benefits of Staging a Home for Sale

The Benefits of Staging a Home for Sale - Although each house is unique and no two transactions are identical, if you are interested in selling your home at a higher price in as short as time as possible, statistically, it would be wise to hire a professional home stager.

A staged home will be on the market for half the time a comparable non-staged home will be and will sell for six percent more than a comparable non-staged home.

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    How Rent to Own Real Estate Deals Work?

    How Rent to Own Real Estate Deals Work?

    How Rent to Own Real Estate Deals Work? – Renting-to-own has become a very popular concept following the financial crisis of 2008 and whilst it was previously mostly individual buyers and sellers who employed this concept, bigger real estate investment firms have started to follow suit as well. Of course, before entering into any rent-to-own agreement you should understand how it works. This article takes a look at the process from the perspectives of tenants, sellers and institutions.
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    Find Furniture That Makes Your Property Fabulous with Property Styling Tips

    Find Furniture That Makes Your Property Fabulous with Property Styling Tips

    Find Furniture That Makes Your Property Fabulous with Property Styling Tips – In a real estate market that is extremely competitive, presenting your property in a professional manner by investing in property styling is essential. Furniture has a big impact on the impression that a property makes on people. So if you are thinking about styling your property, finding furniture that suits your property is something that will need to be a priority. To learn about the practical ways in which you can improve your furnishings, keep reading.

    To look its best, your property must contain furnishings that complement its aesthetic. Styling furniture requires more than choosing furnishings that appeal to you. You need to consider the natural and artificial lighting in your property, architecture, flooring, window treatments, and wall treatments when you look for furniture as you need to find furniture that works with the various areas.

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    7 Home Improvements That Pay Off When You Sell Your Home

    7 Home Improvements That Pay Off When You Sell Your Home

    7 Home Improvements That Pay Off When You Sell Your Home – When it’s time to sell your home, a few home improvements can show off your property in the best light. This increases buyer interest in your home while decreasing the time it takes to sell the home. Here are seven home improvements to start with before putting your house on the market.

    Landscape improvements
    Curb appeal starts at the curb, so landscaping improvements really pay off well. At a minimum, mow the lawn and place cheery planters on your stoop. To do more, refresh garden beds with attractive plantings.

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    How Real Estate Photos Sell Your Home Fast

    How Real Estate Photos Sell Your Home Fast

    How Real Estate Photos Sell Your Home Fast – Your home may be in great shape, but you need the pictures to prove it and drive traffic to real estate showings. Learn why it’s highly important that you take great photos when you are trying to sell a home.

    How Photos Drive Home Sales

    Homebuyers browse online, which means the first impression of your home for most individuals comes from a digital listing. A small fraction of potential buyers might see your home in an advertisement, such as one posted in the window of a real estate agency, and another portion might be familiar with your house because they live in your neighborhood. Since most people will see an image of your home before visiting, that image has to stand out.

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