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Sell Your Home for Top Dollar--Fast!
by Jeanette Joy Fisher
How would you like to start a bidding war for your home, ending with a
sales price greater than the asking price -- all within your home's
first three hours on the market? That's the kind of results you can expect
when you prepare your home for marketing, using Design Psychology
methods!
Design Psychology's innovative interior design strategies go well
beyond normal cleaning, painting, and repairs, and have been proven to
increase homeowner profit while shortening a home's market time. And best of
all, you don't have to spend a lot of money to enjoy the benefits
Design Psychology can provide!
Here are a few tips for maximizing your sales price, while minimizing
the out-of-pocket cost of selling your home:
First, you must emotionally detach yourself from your home and begin to
think of it as simply a piece of property that needs to be sold. In the
end, your goal is to make your home feel like a well-appointed vacation
property and to spur buyers' imaginations with dreams of enjoying a new
life in your luxurious home -- soon, and at top dollar!
Imagine your home as a five-star hotel room with a kitchen. Set out
your best china, crystal, and finest linens, and then start packing
everything you won't need, including all personal items, such as family
photos, memorabilia, and other clutter. Your aim is to create a luxurious
feeling for prospective buyers -- because buyers will pay more for a home
that makes them feel pampered and comfortable.
Once you've got the interior of the house feeling warm and inviting,
it's time to take inventory around the rest of your property. Take a
notebook, and make three columns on your notepad: "No Cost Changes," "Small
Cost Changes," and "Dream List Changes." Then start at the street,
pretending you're a home buyer, seeing the property for the first time. It
may help to have a friend with you during this process, in order to be
more objective.
Walk around the property, just as a potential buyer would, making notes
about everything that could use improvement, such as landscaping and
exterior paint, listing each change in the proper column. Then walk to
the front door, enter the house, and then walk through, letting the
natural flow of the layout guide you all the way to the backyard.
Keep a constant eye out for things that need attention, jotting them
down on your notepad as you walk around the property. Notate everything
you find that detracts from the serene, inviting feeling you're trying
to create.
Once you've compiled your list, begin with tackling the items in the
"No Cost Changes" column. They could be things like pulling weeds, moving
plants from crowded garden areas and transplanting them elsewhere, or
rearranging furniture, to show off your home's architectural features or
to make rooms seem more spacious.
Always try to see your home as a prospective buyer would see it. Set up
enticing vignettes throughout the house, such as an intimate breakfast
table for two in the master bedroom or a book sitting on an end table
in the reading nook.
Since under-furnished rooms allow buyers to imagine their own
furnishings in a home, it'll be worthwhile to sell or place unnecessary
furniture in storage. If you find that hard to do, compare the cost of moving a
piece of furniture to the cost of replacing it, and then ask yourself
if the piece is worth keeping.
For tackling the items on your list that will cost money to address,
always make sure the expense will be worth the benefit.
Using new interior design ideas to prepare your home for sale can speed
your sale and get you a bigger check at closing.
Copyright c.2004 Jeanette J. Fisher All rights reserved.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jeanette Fisher, Design Psychology Professor, is the author of Sell
Your Home for Top Dollar--FAST! Interior Design Secrets for Optimum
Selling in Any Market, Doghouse to Dollhouse for Dollars, Joy to the Home,
and other books. For more articles, tips, reports, newsletters, and sales
flyer template, see http://www.sellfast.info
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Free Expert Help Selling Your Home for a Limited Time
Exchange expert advice for your success story.
Even if your home is listed with an agent, you can get your asking
price, sooner, and motivate your buyer to close.
Cutting Edge Design Marketing Tips for Selling Your Home -- FAST!
Whether you pay a real estate agent or sell by owner, you get a bigger
paycheck at closing when you use Design and Marketing Psychology.
Get started today! email mailto:success@sellfast.info
by Jeanette Joy Fisher
How would you like to start a bidding war for your home, ending with a
sales price greater than the asking price -- all within your home's
first three hours on the market? That's the kind of results you can expect
when you prepare your home for marketing, using Design Psychology
methods!
Design Psychology's innovative interior design strategies go well
beyond normal cleaning, painting, and repairs, and have been proven to
increase homeowner profit while shortening a home's market time. And best of
all, you don't have to spend a lot of money to enjoy the benefits
Design Psychology can provide!
Here are a few tips for maximizing your sales price, while minimizing
the out-of-pocket cost of selling your home:
First, you must emotionally detach yourself from your home and begin to
think of it as simply a piece of property that needs to be sold. In the
end, your goal is to make your home feel like a well-appointed vacation
property and to spur buyers' imaginations with dreams of enjoying a new
life in your luxurious home -- soon, and at top dollar!
Imagine your home as a five-star hotel room with a kitchen. Set out
your best china, crystal, and finest linens, and then start packing
everything you won't need, including all personal items, such as family
photos, memorabilia, and other clutter. Your aim is to create a luxurious
feeling for prospective buyers -- because buyers will pay more for a home
that makes them feel pampered and comfortable.
Once you've got the interior of the house feeling warm and inviting,
it's time to take inventory around the rest of your property. Take a
notebook, and make three columns on your notepad: "No Cost Changes," "Small
Cost Changes," and "Dream List Changes." Then start at the street,
pretending you're a home buyer, seeing the property for the first time. It
may help to have a friend with you during this process, in order to be
more objective.
Walk around the property, just as a potential buyer would, making notes
about everything that could use improvement, such as landscaping and
exterior paint, listing each change in the proper column. Then walk to
the front door, enter the house, and then walk through, letting the
natural flow of the layout guide you all the way to the backyard.
Keep a constant eye out for things that need attention, jotting them
down on your notepad as you walk around the property. Notate everything
you find that detracts from the serene, inviting feeling you're trying
to create.
Once you've compiled your list, begin with tackling the items in the
"No Cost Changes" column. They could be things like pulling weeds, moving
plants from crowded garden areas and transplanting them elsewhere, or
rearranging furniture, to show off your home's architectural features or
to make rooms seem more spacious.
Always try to see your home as a prospective buyer would see it. Set up
enticing vignettes throughout the house, such as an intimate breakfast
table for two in the master bedroom or a book sitting on an end table
in the reading nook.
Since under-furnished rooms allow buyers to imagine their own
furnishings in a home, it'll be worthwhile to sell or place unnecessary
furniture in storage. If you find that hard to do, compare the cost of moving a
piece of furniture to the cost of replacing it, and then ask yourself
if the piece is worth keeping.
For tackling the items on your list that will cost money to address,
always make sure the expense will be worth the benefit.
Using new interior design ideas to prepare your home for sale can speed
your sale and get you a bigger check at closing.
Copyright c.2004 Jeanette J. Fisher All rights reserved.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jeanette Fisher, Design Psychology Professor, is the author of Sell
Your Home for Top Dollar--FAST! Interior Design Secrets for Optimum
Selling in Any Market, Doghouse to Dollhouse for Dollars, Joy to the Home,
and other books. For more articles, tips, reports, newsletters, and sales
flyer template, see http://www.sellfast.info
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Free Expert Help Selling Your Home for a Limited Time
Exchange expert advice for your success story.
Even if your home is listed with an agent, you can get your asking
price, sooner, and motivate your buyer to close.
Cutting Edge Design Marketing Tips for Selling Your Home -- FAST!
Whether you pay a real estate agent or sell by owner, you get a bigger
paycheck at closing when you use Design and Marketing Psychology.
Get started today! email mailto:success@sellfast.info