301 Simple Things You Can Do to Sell Your Home Now and for More Money Than You Thought: How to Inexpensively Reorganize, Stage, and Prepare Your Home for Sale - Softcover

Clark, Teri B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0910627061 ISBN 13: 9780910627061

Publisher: Atlantic Pub Co, 2007

Synopsis

Numerous studies show that a house that is well polished on the surface and staged properly will appeal to more buyers, sell faster, and most importantly, sell for more money. You may not be able to improve the market value of your house, but you can improve its marketability. Remember: first impressions count the most.

Home Staging is the art of decorating a home to sell fast and for the highest amount. Home stage experts and consultants get thousands of dollars to do what you can easily do inexpensively, with little or no money. Keep in mind this important fact: the way you live in your home and the way you market it for sale are two very different things.

In this groundbreaking book you will learn how small color changes will increase your home's value, minor repairs and de-cluttering tricks, how to rearrange your furniture and art work, decorating tips and ideas, how to look at your house from the buyer's viewpoint, how to add minor accessories, which items stay and what must go, which minor changes will bring you the greatest return, how to bring out a home's best features, table settings, candles, what photos must go and which ones stay, how to minimize problem areas, how to position your house for the marketplace, what music to play, what scents to spray, how to use design psychology techniques, lighting techniques, landscaping secrets, what to do with garages, basements and attics, what color you should never use, how to ensure a positive traffic flow through rooms, how to use mirrors and natural light, and much more.

This exhaustively researched book is the ultimate resource for novices and pros alike; it will guide you through every step of the process with hundreds of innovative ideas that you can put to use right away. This book gives you the proven strategies and innovative ideas used by the experts everyday that you can easily do your self. The book also includes a full-color insert packed with photos of before and after shots!

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About the Author

Teri Clark is a published author in the field of real estate and investing. She also has gone through the process of staging her own home and found that experience created her interest in home staging and other techniques for making a house into a home with little or no effort or expenditure. Her interest in the new and different has also led to a successful online writing career. Teri has mastered the process of electronic virtual collaboration allowing her to produce nearly 100 books as an editor, researcher, freelance writer, and author. The North Carolina resident, along with her husband, home schools their four children. Teri contributes time weekly to service projects benefiting individuals and the community.

Review

This is a very enlightening book on how to stage your home to get the most money out of the sale. It includes do-it-yourself tips from laying tile to installing a faucet. This book is a must for selling your home and will work no matter what your budget is. You won't be disappointed. --DONNA CUNNINGHAM, Realtor; CENTURY 21 SMITH & ASSOC., INC.

Eric Hoffer Awards 2008 Award Winner - Home First Runner Up; USA Best Books Awards 2007 Business: Home Decorating/Interior Design Finalist --Book Awards

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Pub Co
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0910627061
• ISBN 13: 9780910627061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288