Movin Up: Making the Most of Your Home

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Movin UpMaking the Most of Your Home

• Presented by
• ASSOCIATION, BROKER or REALTOR NAME
• Date

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Welcome!

• Todays Agenda
• How to make your home look its best
• Sell it faster
• Get the best price
• REALTORS Here to help!

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How Much Should You Spend?

• Plan to spend but not overspend
• The least expensive home in the best
  neighborhood
• Focus on small investments that give a big
  return

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Depersonalize Your Home

• Detach yourself
• Visit model/new construction homes to see how
  professionals dress the home to appeal to the
  broadest possible audience
• Youre not losing yourselfyoure selling your
  house
• Depersonalize the house remove most family
  photographs and personal collections that can
  distract the buyer

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Look Outside

• You never get a second chance to make a first
  impressionmake it a good one!
• Take inventory how can you emphasize the
  homes best features and minimize or improve its
  worst features?
• Enhance your homes exterior and curb appeal
• Light up the home and walkways

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Clear Out the Clutter

• Invite a friend to help ask him or her to be
  ruthless!
• Go through each room and divide belongings into
  four categories
• - Keep
• - Sell
• - Give away
• - Throw away
• Hold a garage sale donate the unsold items and
  your give away items to a thrift shop
• If necessary, make your rooms look larger by
  moving part of your furniture into a storage unit

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Clean, Clean, Clean

• Give the house a deep cleaning, from top to
  bottom, front to back windows, floors, ceilings,
  floors, closetseverything
• Always keep the sink free of dirty dishes
• Put out clean bath towels every day
• Hire a cleaning service to come in every two
  weeks until the house sells
• Before leaving the house each day, make sure
  the house is spotless and shining, ready to show

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Color Your World

• Check your personal tastes at the door
• Choose light, neutral colors for walls
• Add splashes of color with accessories,
  pillows, flowers, drapes

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Finish Your DIY Projects

• Let buyers know that you have taken good care
  of your home
• Fix minor maintenance problems

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Remember The Nose Knows

• Clean carpets
• Eliminate pet odors (and pets too, if
  necessary)
• Avoid cooking strong-smelling foods bake
  cookies or bread instead
• Get rid of mildew and mold

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REALTORS Are Here to Help!

• While youre waiting for your house to sell,
  find a REALTOR to help you find your next home
• Interview several REALTORS ask friends,
  family and neighbors for recommendations
• Learn what a REALTOR can do for you

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Thank You for Coming!

• Questions?
• Please fill out Meeting Evaluation Form
• Lets work together to find or sell your home!