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TOP TEN GROOMING TIPS TO SELL YOUR HOME

By Lee Alley

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March 28, 2013 03:17 PM

Top ten grooming tips to sell your home

Two Things You Must Do to Beat Your Competition in the Housing Market

The best ways to sell well are to:

1- Attract more buyers to come to your home to see it, and

2- Let your home sell itself so well that the buyers will worry someone else may buy it first.

And how do you do that? Simple. If everything else is similar (price, size, location,...) then the home that looks better will sell better. And out here in ranching territory, we are very familiar with how to groom our horses, cattle, llamas, poultry, et al, so they will "show" well. We "groom" them. Nothing dishonest there...just a matter of letting our critters speak for themselves.

So, the best way for your home to out-compete similar other nearby homes for sale is to...yes..."groom" it for sale.

Where Does One Buy a Grooming Brush to Prepare a Home to Compete with Others?

You don't. You go find one of the most knowledgeable experts on how to make a home "show-ready", then take their advice.

That's what I did. I checked with the Real Estate Staging Association, and found one of their recent winners of the 2013 award for National Top 10 Stagers of the Year. I contacted Ms. Weatherly and asked if she might consider consulting with me on the very best top-ten most effective "grooming tips" for my clients' homes in Rapid City SD for sale. And she accepted!

Sally Weatherly's Top Ten Tips to Sell Your Home in Rapid City Black Hills SD

So Sally and I put our heads together, (with me doing a lot of listening). Then "we" came up with a Top Ten tip sheet. Well, actually, Sally did. I just asked her to tune the international stagers' lingo a bit more toward how we refer to things out West. Here is Sally's fine work. Hope you can use it. And if you need any advice, give Sally a call in Vancouver, or call me right here in the Rapid City area.

Staging Tips for Selling a Home

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Maureen Bray Portland OR Home Stager ~ Room Solutions Staging

Room Solutions Staging, Portland OR - Portland, OR

"Staging Consultations that Sell Portland Homes"

Nice hand out for your clients, Lee. You have a top home stager on your team now! Sally is a talented and resoureful, experienced home staging professional.

Mar 28, 2013 03:43 PM

Sally Weatherley

EXIT STAGE RIGHT - Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Home Staging, Home Stager Vancouver, B.C

Lee - Wow! Ok, now you need to show me how you made that graphic! Those grooming tips look so much better "staged"! It was great working with you. I love your positive attitude and thanks so much for coaching me on the format that would work best for you and your clients. Your Black Hills, South Dakota clients are lucky to have such a thoughtful and intelligent person looking after their buying and selling needs. Thanks again!

Mar 29, 2013 01:05 AM

Lee Alley

Pro Mobile Photo - Snohomish, WA

DIY Your Own Expert Smartphone Photography

Marueen: Thank you. And I'm sure Sally Weatherly appreciates a complement from a fellow stager, Room Solutions Home Staging, in Portland.

Valerie: Sally Weatherly did all the heavy lifting. I just put some icing on her cake. Wow, you must have a sollid grasp of Ottawa real estate since you've bought and sold more homes even for yourself than some agents!

Sally: And thank YOU, for the opportunity to work with a nationally recognized expert such as yourself. And the advice you offered demonstrates why you are so highly regarded among your peers. Graphic made with www.ipiccy.com, using the "Frames" function found in top menu bar after you upload a photo. Also some cropping, chopping and mopping up details using other ipiccy functions. Ipiccy is my best friend :-)

Mar 29, 2013 01:35 AM

Bob Crane

Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI

Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Hi Lee, I found your blog via Sally's blog, this is a great set of grooming tips that you and Sally collaborated on. It caught my eye when she said that she was collaborating with a Rapid City Realtor, since I am getting ready to make a trip out to my Dads place in Blackhawk for a memorial service for my uncle.

Apr 18, 2013 01:01 PM

Hey, Bob, great to hear from you! You're famous from your prior posts. And thanks for your compliments. Yeh, Sally was the brains and I was the editing brawn. She did a great job to help me. Anyway, let me know if there is any way I can help make your trip to Black Hawk any more pleasant. Black Hawk is between my home norht of Black Hawk and my office in Rapid City. And wuntcha know, I lived in Madison, not far from Stevens Point for several years (100 years or so ago).

Apr 18, 2013 01:26 PM

Janis Borgueta

Newburgh, NY

Retired RE Salesperson

Super way to promote Sally and to give to your clients valuable info. All of this looks nice in a great presentation for your clients.

May 04, 2013 09:46 PM