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Before You List, Must-do Showing Tips

Staging pro Sharon Brown with Homescapes by Design in Roseville, Minn., offers her clients a checklist before they list their home for sale. The point of the checklist is to make sure the home is show-ready before the for-sale sign goes up and the first potential buyer walks through the door, and even before photos are snapped for the MLS. The following are the changes Brown most recommends to her ...
Posted by Suzanne Dingley @ 12:00 AM on 11/15/2011
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IT ALL DEPENDS

The signals are out there: home sales are picking up and prices are slowly ascending.  However, recovery isn't obvious everywhere yet.  Most markets are still seeing the cheapest homes selling fastest, while mid-range homes are taking longer, and upper-end properties are languishing.   Whether buying or selling, your best strategy in this dynamic marketplace depends on which tier your ...
Posted by Suzanne Dingley @ 12:36 PM on 04/15/2010
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10 Inexpensive Ways to Wow Buyers

Now is the time for home owners contemplating a spring sale to spruce up their properties in anticipation of what Mike Larson of Weiss Research calls a potentially vibrant home-selling season. "If you have been beating your head against a wall, this is going to feel a lot better,” he says.Here are 10 cheap ways to make a property more attractive to shoppers: Improve first impressions. Touch ...
Posted by Suzanne Dingley @ 1:46 PM on 01/29/2010
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IS NOW A GOOD TIME TO BUY OR SELL A HOME?

Click the video link to hear Jim Gillespie, CEO of Coldwell Banker Real Estate on his assesment of the housing landscape.   
Posted by Suzanne Dingley @ 12:25 PM on 01/21/2010
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How To Prepare Your House For Sale

Disassociate yourself from your home. Make the mental decision to "let go" of your emotions and focus on the fact that soon this house will belong to someone else. Look toward the future. De-personalize. Pack up those personal photographs and family heirlooms. You don't want buyers to be distracted by personal artifacts. You want them to imagine their own photos on the walls. You want buyers to ...
Posted by Suzanne Dingley @ 1:51 PM on 01/06/2010
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DOLLAR VS DAYS

After you've taken step one to decide to sell your home, step two is usually setting your asking price, striving for a balance between generating offers and receiving top dollar.  Your chosen representative will perform a Competitive Market Analysis to produce an estimate of your home's "fair market value," or that price that educated buyers will pay based on listings and sales of homes similar ...
Posted by Suzanne Dingley @ 11:42 AM on 12/01/2009
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TOP 5 RENOVATIONS THAT PAY

If you are thinking of getting your home ready for sale, you may want to consider some remodeling ideas that will add market value to your home. You want to be sure you are spending your money wisely and not making improvement that do not add value. Watch this video for some good tips.
Posted by Suzanne Dingley @ 2:54 PM on 11/12/2009
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A Lesson For Sellers

A buyer looking for a home is likely to become well informed about property values.  After “comparison shopping” - looking at a half dozen or so homes, a buyer can easily spot the overpriced homes – those that have been on the market for some time but remain unsold. These homes often end up selling for even less than if they had been priced competitively from the beginning. Don’t ...
Posted by Suzanne Dingley @ 1:45 PM on 10/08/2009
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