Comments on: Staging Your Home for Sale http://compliments-of-the-house.com/c21tcblog/2008/12/staging-your-home-for-sale/ Metro Detroit - Wayne - Oakland - Macomb County Michigan Real Estate Info, Blog, Community, News, Resource Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:16:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Catherine Gavin-Larive http://compliments-of-the-house.com/c21tcblog/2008/12/staging-your-home-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Catherine Gavin-Larive Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:24:50 +0000 http://compliments-of-the-house.com/c21tcblog/?p=105#comment-21 Curb appeal is one of the most important keys to selling your property. Keeping your driveway plowed is especially important during the winter months. Most purchasers will not attempt to pull into a driveway full of snow or ice. They may decide not to see your property. Questioning, if you can not keep your driveway and walkways free of snow and ice how might the interior of the property be kept? Also keeping your entryway free of winter apparel will allow the purchasers to enter without tripping over your belongings. Quick Tip: Your'e in the middle of doing the family Laundry...your Realtor calls and tells you that another Realtor would like to show your property in the next 10 minutes. Panic sets in, you have sorted Laundry all over the Laundry area. If the dryer is empty put all dirty laundry in the dryer out of site if possible. Proceed with staging your property turn on lights, and put some soft music on for background noise. Curb appeal is one of the most important keys to selling your property. Keeping your driveway plowed is especially important during the winter months. Most purchasers will not attempt to pull into a driveway full of snow or ice. They may decide not to see your property. Questioning, if you can not keep your driveway and walkways free of snow and ice how might the interior of the property be kept? Also keeping your entryway free of winter apparel will allow the purchasers to enter without tripping over your belongings.

Quick Tip: Your’e in the middle of doing the family Laundry…your Realtor calls and tells you that another Realtor would like to show your property in the next 10 minutes. Panic sets in, you have sorted Laundry all over the Laundry area. If the dryer is empty put all dirty laundry in the dryer out of site if possible. Proceed with staging your property turn on lights, and put some soft music on for background noise.

]]> By: Karen Dafoe, Realtor - CENTURY 21 Town & Country http://compliments-of-the-house.com/c21tcblog/2008/12/staging-your-home-for-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Karen Dafoe, Realtor - CENTURY 21 Town & Country Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:22:24 +0000 http://compliments-of-the-house.com/c21tcblog/?p=105#comment-16 Curb appeal is key to capturing our buyers' attention online as well in our main photos and visual tours. The property needs to look desirable at all times. If this is adding stress to your home selling experience, remember to ask your Realtor for reinforcements - home cleaning & lawn & property maintenance can help you. Even a cleared and salted walkway leaves such a good impression with buyers after they've trudged through deep snow and ice to get to the front doors of the other homes they've seen. Curb appeal is key to capturing our buyers’ attention online as well in our main photos and visual tours. The property needs to look desirable at all times. If this is adding stress to your home selling experience, remember to ask your Realtor for reinforcements – home cleaning & lawn & property maintenance can help you. Even a cleared and salted walkway leaves such a good impression with buyers after they’ve trudged through deep snow and ice to get to the front doors of the other homes they’ve seen.

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