Looking to Sell Your Home? Archive

  • Creating Warm Spaces

    Creating Warm Spaces

    Julie Lynch and Debbie Bloomfield Wood of Charter One Realty have definitely found their niche in the local real estate market as “Julie & Debbie Realtors by Design”. They offer professional staging to every homeowner they work with. “It is our way of adding value...

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  • Short Sale Notes

    Short Sale Notes

    Short sales are like taking ice cream away from a 5 year old.  Not impossible, but extremely difficult often resulting in kicking, screaming and tears.  If you are considering doing your home as short sale, it is not “what do you need to do it”,...

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  • Rules for selling your home

    Rules for selling your home

    Make yourself and your home available to show on the buyers schedule, not yours. Sure it can be inconvenient sometimes, but you have to understand when an agent has someone looking at homes they have them right then. They may not have them tomorrow at...

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  • Rules for selling your home

    Rules for selling your home

    If it is broken, fix it, if it needs cleaning, clean it, if it needs paint, paint it!!!! All those little things you have lived with on your “honey do” list, and promised you would do later, well, do it now before your start showing...

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  • Rules for Selling Your Home

    Rules for Selling Your Home

    Rule #2 in our series: Get rid of the clutter. Clutter in your brain is Ok, clutter in the “catch all drawer” in the kitchen is OK, but anywhere else, clutter does not work.  You may love those 3000 snow globes you have collected over...

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  • Rules for selling your home

    Rules for selling your home

    As the market continues to pick up, you need to review the rules for selling your home. Over the next few days I will be sharing these rules with you. I will also be doing a series on being a home buyer. Look out for...

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  • When considering a short sale, consider this

    When considering a short sale, consider this

    Recently, I have worked with a number of people who have been looking at short sales. They have thought, as do most people, based on the asking price they were going to get a great deal. I have had to remind them, when you make...

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  • Lesson from a 5 year old

    Lesson from a 5 year old

    My Grandmother and I am sure everyone else’s Grandmother used to say “You never get a second chance to make a good first impression!” Keep this in mind when you get ready to sell your home. I took my 5 year old Granddaughter, Gracie, with me...

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  • The Sonny Side of Things: Its Just Not Fair

    The Sonny Side of Things: Its Just Not Fair

    One of the things not fair and possibly unconstitutional is the Point of Sale (new sales are taxed at the sale price) provision in the 2006 Tax Act 388 . Quite possibly the entire act itself may be deemed unconstitutional in upcoming legal challenges. For the...

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  • If this can sell, yours can sell!

    If this can sell, yours can sell!

    Worried because your home has not sold?  Concerned there may not be a buyer for it.  Quit worrying.  A home in Greenwich Village, NY that is 9.5 FEET WIDE and 42 FEET LONG just SOLD for $2,100,000.  If there was a buyer for this, there...

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