This is a post that I wrote a couple of weeks ago and I just now found out that the comments were blocked for some reason...have any of you heard about this happening??
I was spurred to go to my old posts to see if any if any of my older posts were comment-disabled because of a post I just read "You Disabled Your Comments..... Why?????? " by Stacey Smith. Low and behold, the one post that I wrote and got NO COMMENTS on was this one...it had been re-blogged 3 times and the comments on those re-blogs were: "I couldn't comment because Paula disabled her comments on this post"..."What?..Why did She do that?" "I don't know but her comments were disabled" and on and on....
So, I am giving it another chance here....No matter the reason it was comment-disabled the first go-around, now you can comment away!!!
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Curbing Appeal...not something you want to do....not unless you really don't care if you sell the house! We have all heard of Curb Appeal in this business! "The first impression is the one that really matters!" Now, in this difficult economy, there are noticable differences in the way properties appear as they come on the market....This is the time to MAKE SURE that creating Curb Appeal is crucial to the outcome of marketing a home.
What I mean by Curbing Appeal is this:
- Park your old collectors car in the driveway and leave it because you think it is georgous! ...No one else does!
- Let your hedge-row and shrubs go without a trim to save money, when you have the house on the market--cut your losses and trim it now!
- Your house needs the trim painted and you think you will wait to see if it sells first so you can afford it better!--Again cut your losses...Paint it now!
- Your grass has grown so well this year that even the bare patches are filled in--a cut a week isn't really necessary!...Don't even think of not mowing your lawn!!!
- The garbage cans can not wait for the lawn guy to move them to the back yard--you, do it now!
- The weeds are really doing well too, as well as the grass is!...get rid of them now!
- The windows got really smudged from the last Nor'easter; no one will notice...clean the glass now!
The things that you notice will be noticed more by the new buyer who walks by, or into your house. If you show how much your house is loved, it will sell!!! Giving a house Curb Appeal is the first and best chance you have to sell the house...
If the first thing a potential buyer sees is long grass, lots of weeds, dingy windows and garbage cans still in front of your house, they think: "troubled homeowner" ..."Can't afford to pay for the upkeep" ....."I may be able to get a real bargain here!"
Don't even think of leaving toys in the yard or a broken fence in the yard! These are the "deal breakers" or a "bargain hunters dream". If you are selling the house for the homeowner, as the listor, you have an obligation to advise the owner to clean up or even pick up the trash in the yard yourself!.
You must make the property look like the best house on the block! ...Right down to the big basket of flowers sitting on the porch!!!
NOW, GET OUT THERE AND CREATE CURB APPEAL!!! :)
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