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These 7 Mistakes Will Doom Your Home Sale in a Slow Market
For-sale signs have taken over your block, the local jobs market doesn’t look great, and big red price reduction labels tarnish most of the online home listings in your area. You’ve got enough evidence...
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Selling a House in a Great Family Neighborhood? Here’s How to Attract Buyers
Your neighborhood is the kind where the parents gather to hang out in the driveway while their kids run around in the yard. On Tuesdays, you can hear the sound of Little League cheers coming from the...
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Is It Worth Relocating for That Job? How to Weigh All the Relevant Factors
Since the 1980s the rate of people who seek jobs and ultimately choose to relocate for one has dropped from 40% to 10%. The job market is tight, and you can work from virtually anywhere thanks to the...
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Open House Etiquette for Sellers: 10 Tips to Stay in Good Form
As a kid you learn to say “please” and “thank you.” As an adult you learn to clean out the work microwave and park between the lines. But while most of us know exactly what to do at dinner or at a...
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10 Eco-Smart Ways to Add Curb Appeal in Dry, Desert Climates
What do you imagine when you picture a front yard with perfect curb appeal? If you live in the desert, you don’t envision the typical rolling green lawn, lush and leafy trees, and manicured hedges....
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7 Tips to Prepare Your Home for Sale and Save Money at Every Step
While you may need to invest lots of hours and elbow grease into prepping your home to sell, there’s one thing you don’t need to spend a lot of: money. Let’s take a look at the top 10 things you can do...
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The Black Thumb’s Guide to Staging a House with Plants
Do an online search for photos of “staged rooms” and you’ll see that almost every image has plants in the picture. Those that don’t have plants in frame look incomplete—and if those rooms were staged...
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7 Great Front Yard Landscaping Ideas to Help Sell Your House on a Busy Street
Selling a house on a busy street? Unfortunately you can’t pick up your house and move it. But with a little strategic landscaping, you can mitigate the noise factor and increase the marketability of...
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Does a Finished Garage Add Value or Is It Just a ‘Nice to Have’?
Compared to the rest of the house, your grungy, dusty, unfinished garage looks like a catch-all junk room that the construction crew abandoned mid-build. It. Needs. Help. But does it pay to outright...
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10 Tips for Selling Your Historical Charmer of a Home to the Right Buyer
Your home is far from cookie cutter and that’s what you love most about it: you could gaze at its original hardwood floors and architectural details all day long. Its age only adds to the appeal—if...
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Staging a Beach House to Sell Fast: Think Modern Coastal, Not Jimmy Buffett
Tiki torches, splashy Hawaiian prints, bamboo furniture, and booze in the blender—the “Margaritaville” lifestyle may be perfect for hanging out in your beach house, but it’s not the right vibe if...
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DIY Art for Home Staging: 5 Practical Ideas to Save Money (That Don’t Involve...
In desperate need of some art to hang in an existing empty spot on your wall? Or are you frantic over how empty your house looks now that you’ve depersonalized the place? Whatever the reason for your...
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Should You Get Professional Home Staging or Do It Yourself?
While home staging sounds easy enough to tackle on your own, (declutter, depersonalize, rearrange some furniture, and top it off with some tasteful decor) “it’s difficult to know how to tie a room...
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Balance, Harmony, and Good Fortune: How to Feng Shui Your Way to a Fast Home...
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art or belief that you can organize the design and elements of your physical world to find harmony and balance with the spiritual world. This belief system has been...
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Selling Your Parents’ Home After They Pass Away: Take it Step by Step
No matter how young or old you are, losing your parents is heartbreaking. It’s the kind of traumatic life event when you’d most like to turn to your parents for comfort and advice, if only they were...
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3 Ways Interior Design and Home Staging Are Nothing Alike
Interior design and home staging come from a similar school of thought, and there are overlapping principles between the two. But you can’t use the terms interchangeably. Here we’ll explore three key...
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So You’ve Submitted an Offer on a House! How Long Until You Hear Back?
After touring several homes and finding one you really love, you’ve put in your best possible offer and can’t wait for the next steps. Not much to do now but wait on pins and needles for the seller to...
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10 Open House Etiquette Fails You Can Learn From
Open houses offer a sweet deal for visitors. Whether you go to indulge in the free wine and snacks, sign up for giveaways, or gush over waterfront views, you’re welcome to drop by. That’s the beauty of...
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Rent vs. Buy: Which One Will Give You the Good Life?
Rent vs. buy: Which is better? …Trick question. You could call the U.S. a nation of homeowners, with the majority of Americans (64.8%) choosing to own a house as of 2018. But it’s all a matter of...
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4 Options for Investing in Real Estate as a Total Beginner, Depending on Your...
It seems real estate moguls rule the world these days. So how’s a total newbie with little more than pocket change supposed to get a slice of that pie? “I started investing in real estate when I was 24...
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