How to Make Your Home Stand Out From the Crowd

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When it comes time to sell your home, it could at first look like your home is a dime a dozen. But your advantage is that since you know the ins and outs of your home, you can exploit what makes your house special over all the others, and make the home buyer believe that your home is better than the other comparables on the market. Here are a few things to keep in mind when you're trying to stand out from the crowd.

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As potential buyers look at home after home, they start to lose memory as to what home had what. This either makes them choose what they didn't want in the first place, or fall in love with the first home that's not like the others. That's the part you want to dwell on.

Think of some key characteristics of your house that you found appealing while you lived there, and you would think would invoke a type of feeling or emotion from the potential homebuyer. Is the neighborhood peaceful and tranquil? Do you get a nice view of sunrises and sunsets? Does the community band together and have festivities that unite the homeowners? If the homebuyers have kids, maybe you want to mention that there are a lot of kids in the neighborhood to play with.

There are many different things that you can say and demonstrate about your house that can't be measured by square footage or dollar signs. You want the homebuyers to picture themselves in your house doing things that you cherished while you were living there. If you succeed in creating this visual, they will be more inclined to remember your house as the one that they saw themselves in best. Not to say to omit the other stuff, but invoking emotions and thoughts can not only get the homebuyer to overlook unimportant, trite things about your house, but it can also get them to make your house their home.

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Fizber Listing Performance 

Homeowners who advertise on the Internet are reaching more and more people every day, and Fizber.com is dedicated to bringing buyers and sellers of homes together via the Internet in the most cost-effective way. This is a snaphot of a typical Fizber listing performance in a 30-day period:

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The $260,000 house in Chesterbrook, PA was listed on Fizber.com on June 1st. It received 15 page views on the very first day. In the next two days the ad appeared on Fizber partner sites, such as Craigslist.com and ForSaleByOwner.com, and it brought an average of 20 more online visitors to Fizber in search of more details. The owner received 6 e-mails and 3 phone calls from interested buyers. In the meantime, the listing was syndicated to 80 other real estate classifieds sites generating over 200 page views on Fizber.com. The owner had 11 calls and 6 showings during these 2 weeks. On June 16 the listing was made featured and placed higher in every real estate search result on Fizber.com. The listing received another 100 visitors which resulted in 12 calls, 9 showings and an offer on the house. By June 30th the house was under contract.

Are you selling a home? Click here to view home listing packages on Fizber.com. With home listings throughout the United States, Fizber.com strives to connect buyers and sellers more effectively. The site offers to list for-sale properties on a multiple listing service for a $349.95 flat fee, to submit property ads to a variety of property search engines for a $299.95 flat fee, and a package of both services for $499.95. Prospective homebuyers can browse property database, available at www.fizber.com, at no charge.

Gardens That Whisper, %u2018Buy This House%u2019 

If you want to sell your house, the usual drill is to clean the closets, repaint chipped kitchen cabinets and call a broker. Then, to boost the price, many people hire a professional stylist or "stager" to fine tune the décor.

But what about those overgrown hedges, the crab grass in the backyard and borders that have seen better days? Gardens and landscaping are often overlooked when a seller spruces up a home.

Barbara Schwarz, a broker and founder of the Web site Staged Homes, which offers an accredited staging program, says that pruning a garden is as critical to selling as creating a Real Simple-inspired interior.

Her tips include weeding and mulching, maintaining freshly trimmed ground cover like ivy, and placing evergreens or pots of flowering annuals near the front door to make the home more welcoming.

Some experts say that overgrown gardens should be avoided. Others believe that buyers prefer houses with larger shrub borders and smaller lawns, so there is less grass to mow. Real estate organizations do not specifically track the impact of landscape improvements. Anecdotal evidence suggests that a well-tended garden does add a certain cachet as part of a home's overall renovation and could add dollars, too.

Ms. Schwarz, for example, said she recently sold a house in Seattle for $1.9 million that had been on the market for 11 months at $1.4 million, after the owners invested $25,000 in staging improvements that included limbing up trees to allow more light into the house and removing shrubbery.

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Swimming pools, however, are less likely to produce a good return, unless they are in a gardenlike setting. Because of their high maintenance costs and safety and liability issues, pools rarely realize a return on the investment, especially in colder northern regions, said John Brenan, the director of research and technical issues at the Appraisal Foundation, which sets standards for appraisers.

Source: Fizber.com

Is a Home Sale Contingency Offer a Non-Offer? 

Contingent contracts are most often a good deal for a buyer and a riskier solution for a seller. Still you might consider it now when the market has slowed or if you have no other offers.
What sellers should put on a home sale contingency contract:

* Have a release clause added to the sales contract that allows you to continue to market your home until the sale contingency is lifted by the buyer. In such a clause, the buyer usually has a fairly short time to go firm on purchasing your home or cede it to a backup buyer, if one should come along. This approach is a good hedge against uncertainty, plus it's a motivator for the other party.

* Offer your home for sale under a "72 hour first right of refusal" clause. Once you receive a second offer, your first buyer has 72 hours to remove their contingency. If they are unable to do so, you are able to go forward with the second buyer.

As a seller, you get your hopes up, but the deal can drag on painfully. It is a hard decision to make. There's your risk-reward scenario. It all boils down to the dynamics of your market and the reliability of the purchaser.

Source: Fizber.com

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