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Selling your home? Take Pictures

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Real Estate Agent with Coldwell Banker Preferred Properties

  My first rose of the season is blooming this morning.  It is so pretty - I wanted to take a picture.  I remembered one important thing in taking photos is to look at what is AROUND the pictue when you take it.  Since I haven't had a chance to work on my spring plantings yet, and the deck furniture still has that winter film of dirt and pollen, getting a pleasing background was quite a chore.

It also reminded me of conversations I have with sellers all the time.  When you LIVE in a house day to day, you don't really SEE things.  Front doors become faded, window sills are dirty, cob webs grow in corners, light fixtures get dirty, baseboards are scarred, there are 6 months of unread magazines stacked somewhere, closets are overflowing - and if you have a pet OH MY!!!

Here is a thought.  Take pictures of your rooms and the outside of your house and look at them objectively.  Can you even SEE the rooms for all the STUFF? Would you be embassased if you saw your house on the internet?  If you were a buyer, based on the pictures you see, would you want to look at THAT house?

If you would like tips on spring cleaning, or other ways to get your house ready to sell in Hoover, Alabama or the greater Birmingham Alabama area, let me know at www.ToniBird.com.

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