5 Low-cost Tips To Prepare Your Home For Sale
Real estate is sold throughout the year but when spring and summer
roll around one begins to see yard sales going up as homeowners
prepare their homes for sale. The following is a list of tips that are
low in cost and usually require nothing more than a few weekends and
some elbow grease to get the job done.
As a general rule the best time to prepare your home for sale is at
the very earliest point in “spring” actually early March or even late
February the time when seasonal buying interest is just starting to
build. However this rule is not written in stone and these tips
apply throughout the year.
Here are the “Top 5″ things a seller can do to increase the final
selling price without spending too much money outofpocket.
1 Clean it. Home buyers it turns out hate dirty homes more than
just about anything else. So give the home a thorough cleaning from
top to bottom inside and outside.
2 Organize it and Declutter It. If the home is too cluttered for the
seller it probably will look too small for the buyer. Store away all
belongings that aren’t regularly used. Store furniture that isn’t
necessary for comfortable living. A sparser less cluttered room
always makes an area look more spacious. This whole process of
cleaning decluttering sprucing up homes and even bringing in
designer furniture to prepare homes for sale has begun a new real
estate industry called “home staging”. But a homeowner can duplicate
some of these things by paying close attention to these lowcost items
he or she can do as a seller.
3 Repaint it. Real estate surveys find that a homeowner gets their
biggest bang for their buck by repainting the interior of the home in
bright white or offwhite paint. Painting the house in neutral colors
is always a good idea.
4 Landscape it. Mow it and plant it. The exterior of the home is the
first impression that a buyer will get and it will be a long lasting
one. Now with so many listings being made available on the internet
pictures of homes on the internet are what many buyers will see first
of a prospective home and the exterior’s condition will determine if
they want to take a look inside!
5 Fix it. If it isn’t working properly it usually ends up costing
more at the negotiating table than at the hardware store. Make sure to
pay close attention to any plumbing problems i.e. a broken garbage
disposal that may exude musty or foul smells. Today’s buyer with
their busy lifestyles just wants to move in and get on with their
daytoday business. If they have to spend time in repairing they
will subconsciously factor in more than the actual cost at the
negotiating table. Statistics usually show that these costs amount to
about two to three times more.
As the homeowner busies himself with his todo list of household
chores keep in mind that the better shape the home is in the more a
prospective home buyer will be likely to pay for it.
About the writer: Nef Cortez has been a licensed real estate broker and has held various positions in the mortgage and real estate industry for over 25 years. Visit his website at Chino Hills CA Real Estate for FREE information on foreclosures or check out his blog at A Slice of So Cal Real Estate .
4 Reasons Why You Should Invest In Real Estate
A recent book titled: “BoomersBank Financial Intelligence for Real Estate Investing” explains clearly why you should invest in real estate using your retirement plan? In the book the author discusses several concepts for buying real estate using IRAs and 401ks; the so called nontraditional investments.
In this article I am going to take a look at four of the top reasons outlined in the book:
1. Tax Free Income
The book starts by asking what advantage is there to all of this? Why not just let your IRAs and 401ks sit around and do whatever it is they’ve always done? Well you can secure taxdeferred or taxfree income for one thing. Anytime you have a profit or a gain either you are not paying taxes on the gains until you start using the money or if it is in a ROTH IRA you aren’t paying taxes at all.
2. Zero Capital Gains
By having real estate in a retirement plan you are also avoiding what’s known as capital gains every time you sell property.
3. Compounded Interest Reinvestment Option In Troubled Times
Your money is allowed to accumulate and your interest will compound Moreover you can put all of the money back into your next deal. However you’ve got to bear in mind the current state of the economy. Money doesn’t just sit around these days. In most parts of the world the dollar is losing value at a pretty alarming rate.
The United States is a country at the edge of a financial and economic precipice owing trillions of dollars to other countries and borrowing money against well the value of its existing borrowed money.
The infrastructure of the United States is at present rather unorganized. We aren’t producing much and so we’re importing more than we’re exporting. It’s basic mathematics. Notice how the prices of food and gas have been rising recently. That should give you a pretty clear idea of what’s going on and what is likely to continue to happen.
4. Strength Of Nontraditional Investment
The main focus of this book however is to demonstrate the value of nontraditional investment choices for 401Ks. The goal is not only to introduce you to the reasons why these choices are advantageous but it is also to explain the particulars of the related processes.
For the sake of helping you confront your financial advisor or accountant the book discusses the various strategies for undertaking this type of investment. It also takes you through the processes for finding appropriate real estate to undertake the actual investment.
Since the property market can be a bit difficult to navigate particularly if you’re a beginner you can benefit from the author’s wealth of experience and wisdom on the subject that the book represents.
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John Krol is an expert on investing in real estate and wants to help people
by sharing his expertise.
2 Top Reasons Realtor Websites Flop Or Flourish
1. A professional website gives the buyer confidence
If the website is flashy and not presented properly the buyer does not have the confidence in giving their own details to such an organization and shies away from dealing with such companies. This is like an initial meeting with a person where you have to create a good impression and then go further to do business with them.
The realtor also has to do a bit of home work and present his website in such a way that it draws customers to his organization with the kind of pictures and information that he has presented on his website. He should go to website designers and developers who have a reputation of doing a good job and are well known in the market. Even those who are starting out could have the talent to give an appealing website with the right kind of material on it.
The realtor should make available some information on the properties that are presently under his control with descriptions so that the buyer does not shy away and go to other sites where he gets more information immediately instead of waiting for it. If people had the time to do things at a slower pace they would have taken the option of making phone calls and following these up with visits to the offices at a later date but when one goes to the websites it is because they want faster results.
It is again not necessary to put down a long list of the properties available instead a few catchy ones can draw the buyers attention and get him to contact and visit the realtor for more information on other projects that he might have on hand.
2. A good website design will get more buyers
A professional website will give the buyer the confidence that the realtor is professionally sound and will do things in a satisfactory way and with a professional outlook on all his work. Something that is shoddy makes the buyer feel that he might not get the right kind of service and may run into trouble with this organization. So instead of loosing out on a whole lot of customers it is better to get a good website done by professional website designers and gain more business and customers through it also.
The Internet is no doubt the biggest venue for getting more customers and a product advertised and is the biggest selling agent today. So when you are using this medium to bring in business for you you might as well give it the best you can and attract many mor customers to contact you and visit you instead of turning away because of a poor quality and shoddy website.
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