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Your Rockville, MD Home Won’t Sell? Try These 5 Overlooked Techniques.

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Real Estate Agent with Llewellyn Realtors

 

Creative Home Selling - Keving GroligFall and winter are not the big buying seasons that Spring and Summer are, but all hope is not lost if your Montgomery County home is on the market now. However, how will you make your home stand out from the other comparable homes on the market? No single tactic will work; it’ll take a combination of techniques, along with the skills of your real estate broker, to make buyers fall in love with your home over the next.

 

Remodeling and Upgrading

Potential homebuyers are a picky bunch. At the first sign of something they don’t like, it’s on to the next. Seems unreasonable, but unless you were in the market for a fixer upper, weren’t you the same way? Either way, in today’s market, you’ll want to do any necessary remodels and upgrades to gain buyer attraction. Don’t spend your money doing things like installing a pool or hot tub; that’s just ridiculous. However upgrading your appliances to stainless steel or replacing old carpeting is a smart decision.

 

Curb Appeal

The outside of a home is always the first impression. If the yard or landscaping is unkempt, there’s a good chance the inside is the same. Even if your yard is just ok, it won’t hurt you to spruce it up a little to actually catch the attention of passersby who are in the market for a new home. Simple things like washing the house, painting the front door and adding a nice, new, shiny street number go a long way.

 

Staging to Sell

This is a big one. Many buyers neglect this aspect of selling a home, and lose potential buyers and even market value. How many online tours of homes listed to sell have you seen where the photos look as if they’re applying to be guests on a home reorganization show? You can hardly focus on the potential of the home from all the mess. The same applies to completely empty homes. De-cluttering and arranging furniture really do matter. Add a little decor and some nice, but not overpowering smells, and buyers will be making inquiries like hotcakes.

 

Feng Shui

Going along with staging is the idea of Feng Shui -- the arrangement of items to achieve a certain level of energy flow (chee). Years ago it felt like a fad, but more and more sellers and buyers are appreciating the balance and flow it brings to a home. It may even up your chances of selling, and it certainly won’t hurt to give it a shot.

 

Creative Marketing

Working with a broker to get your home sold is essential, unless you have experience selling on your own. But that doesn’t mean you can’t take some matters into your own hands. Create a Facebook page like this couple did to create some buzz on your own, and do a little free advertising. You could even create an ad on Facebook to target potential buyers in your market, and get more visits and likes to your Facebook page for just a few bucks.

 

Use these five home selling ingredients to create a recipe for success! Remember, it’ll pay off to go all the way and try everything, within reason, to sell your home, making your listing and viewing stand out far from the rest.

 

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