Home Staging Tips
and Home Selling Advice
Curb Appeal Tips
By Jeanette Joy Fisher
Gone in 60 Seconds?
Do you notice people pulling
up to your home, stopping for a few seconds, and then
driving off without even bothering to get a flyer?
You need Curb
Appeal!
Take a good, hard look at the
outside of your home, since that's what potential home
buyers see first. If you've ever bought a home, you
know that you passed by houses simply because they
looked shabby and unloved from the curb viewpoint.
It's just a quirk of human nature that makes a person
think that if a home looks bad from the street, it
will be just as bad on the inside--so don't let your
home make a negative impression from the first glance.
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This freshly painted home sold
in 3 hours--for more than listed price. It was
painted with "oops" $2 per gallon paint from
Restore, Habitat for Humanity's thrift store.
Total paint inside and out: 10 gallons |
Curb Appeal Tips to Tempt Buyers to Take a Look
Inside
- Cut low-hanging tree
branches that block the buyer's view of the front
door.
- Keep the lawn and
landscaping well-manicured.
- Keep perennials looking
good. Cut back straggly branches and dead blooms.
- Plant gorgeous annual
flowers to attract the eye to the front door.
- Paint your door a happy
color. You want buyers to feel like going through
the door. Paint is cheap, and the rewards will be
worth the effort.
- Stage a setting near the
front door. Rocking chairs, a porch swing, or a even
a bench suggest friendly neighbor chats.
You don't have to spend a lot
of money to make your curb appeal attract home buyers.
However, you only get one glance to make a good first
impression.
So walk around your house and
try to look at it as if it's the first time you've
ever seen it. What things do you see that would make a
less-than-favorable impression on YOU if you were
looking at them for the first time? Those are the
things you want to take care of--long before the first
home buyers drive by your home.
Copyright © 2006 Jeanette J. Fisher
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