It's springtime! Time to get your home for sale ready to present to buyers. daffodils in bloom

How do you do that? Here are a few things you can do to encourage buyers to enter the house. Remember, they have to come inside before they will want to make an offer to buy it.

1. Clean up the leaves

2. Trim the bushes and edge the lawn

3. Put out grass seed to fill in the bare spots - remember to water daily!

4. If you don't have flowers in a bed, place pots of bright colored flowers by the entrance

5. Clean the gutters

6. Check to be sure the downspouts are draining away from the house

7. Polish or paint the front door

8. Add new outdoor light fixtures if needed

9. Clean the windows inside and out

10. Make sure lawnmowers and bicycles are put away

11. How does the driveway look? Is it time to have it re-surfaced?

12. Paint the mailbox

13. Sweep the sidewalk

14. Clear debris from the street in front of your home (dead leaves and gumballs)

15. Ask your Real Estate Agent for suggestions that will make buyers want to come inside

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5 Comments on Strategies For Selling Your Home

MAR
24
2011

Maria, this is a very good reminder that it is the little things that often matter the most.  Good blog!
2:36pm • #1

Great points Maria! Those are very helpful hints!
2:39pm • #2
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Maria,

Clean...clean....clean!!  And then add some flowers for color!

Ann Hayden in Wildwood, MO
7:59pm • #3
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25
2011
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Maria, Curb appeal is sooooooo important to get those buyers to the front door!
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Easy, simple and straight to the point, great job Maria :)
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