staging: Staging & Selling Your Home in Lafayette & West Lafayette, Indiana - Tip #10 - 02/17/08 05:51 PM
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10. Check Curb Appeal-If a buyer won't get out of her agent's car because she doesn't like the exterior of your home, you'll never get her inside.
*Keep the sidewalks cleared.
*Mow the lawn
*Paint faded window trim
*Plant yellow flowers or group flower pots together. Yellow evokes a buying emotion. Marigolds are inexpensive.
*Trim your … (0 comments)
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staging: Staging & Selling Your Home in Lafayette & West Lafayette, Indiana - Tip #9 - 02/17/08 05:40 PM
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9. Scrutinize.
*Go outside and open your front door. Stand there. Do you want to go inside? Does the house welcome you?
*Linger in the doorway of every single room and imagine how your house will look to a buyer.
*Examine carefully how much furniture is arranged and move pieces around until it makes … (0 comments)
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staging: Staging & Selling Your Home in Lafayette & West Lafayette, Indiana - Tip #8 - 02/16/08 04:14 PM
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8. Make the House Sparkle!
-Wash windows inside & out
*Rent a pressure washer and spray down sidewalks and exterior
*Clean out cobwebs
*Re-caulk tubs, showers, and sinks
*Polish chrome faucets and mirrors
*Clean out the refrigerator
*Vacuum daily
*Wax Floors
*Dust furniture, ceiling fan blades and light fixtures
*Bleach dingy grout
*Replace worn rugs
*Hang up fresh towels
*Bathroom towels look great fastened … (0 comments)
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staging: Staging & Selling Your Home in Lafayette & West Lafayette, Indiana - Tip #7 - 02/16/08 04:11 PM
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7. Make Minor Repairs
*Replace cracked floor or counter tiles
*Patch holes in walls
*Fix leaky faucets
*Fix doors that don't close properly and kitchen drawers that jam
*Consider painting your walls neutral colors, especially if you have grown accustomed to purple or pink walls (Don't give buyers any reason to remember your home as "the … (0 comments)
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staging: Staging & Selling Your Home in Lafayette & West Lafayette, Indiana - Tip #6 - 02/16/08 03:59 PM
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6. Remove / Replace Favorite Items
*-If you want to take window coverings, built-in appliances or fixtures with you, remove them now. If the chandelier in the dining room once belonged to your great grandmother, take it down. If a buyer never sees it, she won't want it. Once you tell a … (0 comments)
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staging: Staging & Selling Your Home in Lafayette & West Lafayette, Indiana - Tip #5 - 02/16/08 03:55 PM
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5. Rent a Storage Unit
-Almost every home shows better with less furniture. Remove pieces of furniture that block or hamper paths and walkways and put them in storage. Since your bookcases are now empty, store them. Remove extra leaves from your dining room table to make the room appear larger. Leave … (0 comments)
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staging: Staging & Selling Your Home in Lafayette & West Lafayette, Indiana - Tip #4 - 02/16/08 03:51 PM
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4. Rearrange Bedroom Closets & Kitchen Cabinets
-Buyers LOVE to snoop and will open closet & cabinet doors. THink of the message it sends if items fall out! Now imagine what a buyer believes about you if she sees everything organized. It says you probably take good care of the rest of … (0 comments)
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staging: Staging & Selling Your Home in Lafayette & West Lafayette, Indiana - Tip #3 - 02/16/08 03:45 PM
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3. De-Clutter
-People collect an amazing quantity of junk. Consider this: if you haven't used it in over a year, you probably don't neet it.
*If you don't need it, why not donate it or throw it away?
*Remove all books from bookcases.
*Pack up those knickknacks.
*Clean off everything on kitchen counters.
*Put essential items used … (0 comments)
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staging: Staging & Selling Your Home in Lafayette & West Lafayette, Indiana - Tip #2 - 02/16/08 03:08 PM
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2. De-Personalize
*Pack up those personal photographs & family heirlooms. Buyers can't see past personal artifacts, and you don't want them to be distracted. You want buyers to imagine their own photos on the walls, and they can't do that if yours are there! You don't want to make any buyer ask, … (0 comments)
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staging: Staging & Selling Your Home in Lafayette & West Lafayette, Indiana - Tip #1 - 02/16/08 03:01 PM
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1. Disassociate Yourself With Your Home
*Say to yourself, "this is not my home; it is a house-a product to be sold much like a box of cereal on the grocery shelf.
*Make the mental decision to "let go" of your emotions & focus on the fact that soon this house will no … (0 comments)
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staging: Your Guide To Staging & Selling Your Home in Lafayette & West Lafayette, Indiana - 02/16/08 02:52 PM
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PREPPING & STAGING A HOUSE
Every seller wants her home to sell fast and bring top dollar. Does that sound good to you? Well, it's not luck that makes that happen. It's careful planning and knowing how to professionally spruce up your home that will send a home buyers scurrying for their … (0 comments)
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staging: Tips & Tools to Stage like a Professional - 02/16/08 02:40 PM
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TOOLS FOR STAGING:
-new white towels-new shower curtains / liners-new lotions, cotton balls, sea sponge-fresh toilet paper, pater towel rolls-diffusers-flowers (indoors / outdoors)clear vessels-light bulbs-ottomans-coffee table books-fresh logs in a fireplace-framed artwork in place of family photos on walls-pillows-mirrors-inflatable beds-umbrella stand-hanging plants-window boxes-new doormats
Staging not only helps reduce the amount of time … (0 comments)
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staging: Lafayette Indiana Real Estate - Priced to Sell - 04/16/07 07:45 PM
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Listing your house below what other homes in the area are selling for is a tough emotional hurdle for many homeowners, especially if neighbors sold their homes for much loftier amounts just six months or a year ago. But with a new development … (0 comments)
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staging: Lafayette Indiana Real Estate - Staging Solutions - 04/16/07 07:42 PM
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Make it look lived in: The sparsely furnished den was cold and uninviting. Solution: Reposition the bookcase and desk and get rid of clutter. Make it look like a bargain Skrivanek and Gu, like most sellers, based their asking price on what … (0 comments)
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staging: Lafayette Indiana Real Estate - Fix What's Missing to Sell Your Home - 04/16/07 07:39 PM
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Fix what's missing You have to understand what the competition has that you don't. So visit open houses in the area and do some honest comparisons, advises Vickie Sneed of Hot on Staging. Skrivanek and Gu fall short on landscaping: Although Gu … (0 comments)
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staging: Lafayette Indiana - Great Curb Appeal to Attract Buyers for Your Home - 03/31/07 10:56 PM
Great Curb Appeal to Attract Buyers for Your Home Lafayette, Indiana Real EstateOur Website: www.yourrealestatespecialists.comStaging the interior of your home is very important, and the exterior is equally, if not more important when trying to sell your home. Potential buyers see the outside of your home & yard before they every take … (0 comments)
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