Spring and summer are often considered the best seasons for selling your home, but with our current strong seller’s market, it’s always a good time to list! Houses are barely hitting the market before they are snapped up, and in most areas, the available housing inventory is not currently keeping up with demands. This is great news for sellers, and …
How Your Pets Affect Your Home Listing
You consider your dog a member of the family. Your cat brings you endless joy. Your parakeet’s morning chirps are music to your ears. If you feel this way about your pets, you may assume everyone else does as well. While the pet ownership rate in the United States is at 67% of homes, just because a potential buyer has …
Don’t Forget These Details When Staging Your Home
You already know the importance of home staging when it comes to selling your home. Decluttering, thorough cleaning and removing personal items are all of our first steps when we get ready to stage our homes. Anything and everything about how your home looks, feels, and even smells can influence a buyer’s decision as to whether or not to put …
Easy Ways to Increase Your Home’s Value
To sharply increase your home’s value, you need to take on a major renovation project, right? Not necessarily. There are quite a few small scale changes and improvements you can make that will really pay off when it comes to your return on investment. In fact, you can increase your home’s value by as much as 25-30% by focusing on …
Minimizing Your Home’s Flaws when Preparing to Sell
If you’re considering putting your house on the market and moving to another one, chances are good there are things about your current home that you are not happy with. But before you get overly concerned that your house is less than perfect, keep in mind that very few homes truly live up to all of their owner’s expectations, and …
Staging Your Home in Winter
Compared to many parts of the country, Atlanta has mild winters with very little snow and ice to worry about, but rest assured, if you are trying to sell a home in winter, bitter cold and possibly even ice and snow are real possibilities. While there definitely aren’t as many buyers shopping this time of year, they are out there, …
Help for Fall Home Sellers!
As you have probably heard, May is the magic month for selling your home, with springtime in general being the best time to hit the market. But what if your life doesn’t happen to follow that exact schedule? You can absolutely sell your home in the fall and winter months, and we have some tips and suggestions that can make …
Stage Your Pool To Sell!
There are mixed messages about whether a pool helps you or harms you when selling your home. The general consensus seems to be that you should never add a pool with the hopes of recouping the costs when it time to sell, but if you want one and you will use it, go for it! But how do you make …
Upgrading the Great Outdoors!
Are you starting to make small upgrades and changes in order to sell your home? Or do you just want to know what you can do now that will make your home easier to sell in case you decide to move in the future? Don’t neglect the great outdoors when looking for ideas to increase your selling price. From small …