Three major factors influence the time on market and ultimate selling price for your home - a professional marketing plan, good pricing, and the condition of your home. Here are a few tips to maximize your home's appeal to buyers:

Outside - It's All About Curb Appeal

• Make sure the lawn is top notch - mowed, edged, trimmed, and watered
• Trim and prune hedges, plantings, bushes and trees
• Weed flowerbeds and other plantings
• Check steps, sidewalks, driveways for cracks and crumbling and patch and repair
• Check for any gaps around windows and doors and caulk and paint
• Clean gutters
• Consider adding a few showy flowers, perhaps in pots, near your front entrance.
• Paint your front door
• Consider sealing or painting driveways and sidewalks
• Clean, clean, clean! Consider pressure washing the exterior, and make sure light fixtures, house numbers, and other details are free of debris.

Inside - Clean, Bright, and Open Declutter!

• Since you hope to be moving soon anyway, consider packing storing all non-essential items.
• Brighten up with fresh paint. Especially consider repainting offbeat or strongly colored rooms into a more neutral color
• . Put on your "Home Inspector" cap. You see your home every day...try looking at with fresh eyes. Look for cracks, chips, stains, water damage, torn window screens. Make sure everything functions, from lights to the garage door opener to the alarm system.
• Consider updating cabinet knobs and pulls and bathroom and kitchen fixtures for an inexpensive but high impact update.

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