101 Easy Ways to Make Your Home Sell Faster [Paperback]

Practical, ingenious, and inexpensive, these tips can save your time and help you get the price you deserve for your home.
 
Your house will sell more quickly if a buyer responds to it emotionally. A colorful bed of flowers in the yard or a rocking chair near a pretty window evokes wonderful feelings of home that can make a prospective buyer fall in love with a house. This unique book will show you how to highlight the assets and minimize the drawbacks to make your home sellfaster!
 
First, use the handy charts for appraising your home’s strengths and weaknesses. Then discover a wealth of tips to make every room and even your attic, basement, and garage more appealing.
 
• Hang a mirror to add spaciousness to your entryway.
• Highlight a fireplace with a fire in winter and a plant in summer.
• Freshen up your bathroom with colorful towels and a new shower curtain.
• Clean out your closets to make them seem bigger.Barbara Jane Hallwas a licensed New York state real estate agent and Associate Realtor of the Orange County Board of Realtors. She is also the author of101 Easy Ways to Make Your Home Sell Faster.Introduction
 
Why is it that one house sells within days after the realtor’s sign appears on the front lawn and another lingers for months on the market? You’ve probably seen this happen in your own neighborhood: the Harrisons’ charming little Cape sells the first week for the full asking price while the Campbells’ tidy Colonial languishes for seven months before it finally moves at $8,000 less than the listed price.
 
In today’s tough real estate market, far too many sellers are spending endless months, even years, watching prospective buyers troop through their homes without making an offer. To avoid this kind of frustration, you must learn the secrets of making your house more salable. And no, you needn’t invelÃe