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Curb Appeal - Wow Factor - Home Staging - What's with all these new fangled ideas in real estate!  Buyers are tired of looking at worn out carpet, out dated kitchens and 'Plain Jane' homes that aren't worth half of what they are asking for! 

Your home is your largest investment - why not treat it as such?  You wax your car and clean it just before you sell it on Craigs List - why not your home?

This stager and design expert, Cynthia Bartch from Georgia has the right idea here.  Enjoy her insight on your home's presentation to the buying public!

Via Cynthia Bartch ~ Redesigned Spaces ~ Georgia Home Stager/Property Stylist (N. Atlanta, GA):

Yep, those buyers are snuggled in the comfort of their own dwelling cruising the Internet right now sans pants looking at your home. They have the convenience to view all those homes without having to hit the road. Potential buyers are checking out your property with intent to make a purchase.

Is your home show ready?

You as the seller need to appeal to one of the most powerful senses, the sense of, “I want it and I want now!” I’m pretty darn sure that’s one of the five senses. Yep, pretty sure!

Is the first welcome photo of the exterior of your property click-able and enticing? Does that photo illustrate the value that lay inside the home? If so congratulations you got them to stay a while and linger for a look around, their interest is peeked and they want more.

 

                                  You’ve got it baby and it is called ‘curb appeal, sweet!

                          Front porch 

If not, uh-oh your home is off their list then it’s on to the next property, lickity split. You’ve lost them to that well maintained beauty down the street. You know the type, well trimmed lawns, splashes of eye catching color in the garden, fresh coat of paint, no twinkling Christmas lights in the dead of summer, attractive welcoming face err… I mean front entrance.

No matter the price range of your property, the outside appearance of your home is an important step to tempt the home-buyer to see the goodies you’ve got behind your front door. By creating that all important curb appeal you will have those drive by home-buyers screeching their brakes to sneak a peak. Take advantage of the current season to create opportunities for the best first impression for your home.

 

  • Give that front door a fresh coat of paint.
  • Shine up or replace the lighting, kick plate and doorbell.
  • Need color by the door? Add a stylish wreath or basket to the front door.  Maybe a new welcome mat will do the trick. Use decorative planters with greenery or colorful flowers to anchor the front door.
  • Spruce up those outdoor flower beds by  mulching, weeding and for heavens sake if Aunt Martha’s prized hybrid flower  she gave you died…give it a proper funeral!
  • Power wash that moss & gunk off the porch and home.
  • Pick up the kiddies’ toys scattered through the yard.
  • Leave no evidence of your beloved ‘Bandit’ on the lawn, scoop up the poop, pronto.

 purple flowers  Boston fern  white flowers

Illustrate the value that lay behind your font door by maintaining the outside and tempt that potential buyer to click through and see what else your home has to offer them. Once you've accomplished that, your home will have showing appointments in no time!

Need more tips? Give your local home stager a call and they will be glad to help your home get those lingering looks!

 

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Redesigned Spaces www.redesigned-spaces.net

Specializing in Owner Occupied Homes, Floral Design, Display Work

  Cynthia Bartch ~ cell: 404.509.6046

Alpharetta, Buford, Cumming, Dacula, Duluth, Gainesville, Lawrenceville, Sugar Hill &; Suwanee Georgia

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4 Comments on Buyer's are looking at your home sans pants.....got curb appeal?

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18
2009
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These things are so important -- gotta get the place spruced up .

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Hi Lyn, I like your word "sweet" and thinking that it is the reaction we want to excellent curb appeal. Great re-blog on your part.

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2009
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Gary:  Reblogging lets me offer up great information where I couldn't have said it better myself!  Get that place in shape with curb appeal!

Bob & Carolin:  For some reason, sellers are sliding backwards, slacking off and not paying attention to this stuff.  Buyers don't want to see your junk.

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2009
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This is JUST what I needed to see tonite! I am getting started on a staging project and this gave me an awesome idea! THANKS both poster and reposter!!!! :)

8:41pm • #4

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