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Monday, June 2, 2014

Getting Ready To Sell Your Home

By Pammy McGrath


Selling your home can be a bit nerve-wracking and you might not know exactly how to get started, how long it will take, how to price your home or a myriad of other details. The following tips and tricks can make it easier and faster to sell a home and get the best possible price.

Obviously, it is best to first contact a trusted real estate agent and have them represent you and market your house. Be sure to select someone who truly understands the local real estate market because they can set a good, competitive price and they know what it is that buyers want. Your agent probably will hold a few open houses, but you want someone who thinks beyond the open house. Online real estate marketing is highly important these days and your home needs to appear on multiple real estate websites with great pictures and plenty of information.

The real estate agents at Nixon Real Estate, for example, have more than 30 years of experience selling homes in Texas Hill Country. Whether you are selling a home in Fredericksburg, selling a home in Kerrville or even a home in San Antonio, they can help you market the home and sell it at a great price.

One essential step in the process is to take a good look at your home and decide whether or not you need to make any upgrades before you sell. Typically the kitchen and master suite are the two most important spaces to update. Just upgrading appliances or adding high-end countertops and painting the kitchen can be enough to entice buyers. Painting cabinets and upgrading hardware can be a quick way to improve the look of the master bathroom or the kitchen.

People have a very difficult time picturing your home as their new home, especially if your house is cluttered and crammed with your possessions. Typically a home should look fairly generic and definitely clean with all of the clutter removed. You might adore a family room with lime green walls and shelves filled with antique tea cups or shot glasses from around the world, but buyers probably will not. Pack away knickknacks and photographs and remember that when selling a home, less clutter is more appealing to buyers. At any rate, you are getting a head start on packing.

Pack up excess items from every room as well as the closets, but don't forget about the yard and even the garage. Remove the weeds, add a few pretty potted plants, paint the entry door and do some general sprucing up. You really want to make a fantastic first impression, and a good looking front yard attracts buyers and gets them excited about your home. If the inside looks as good as the outside, it will be much easier to sell a home quickly.




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