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Cheap Tips That Can Sell Your Home

By: Hal James

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You face a tough task if you need to sell your home in this market. The real estate market is cold. Money is tight, buyers are few and there are plenty of homes on the market. Here are some cheap steps you can take that could be the key to selling your property.

Smoking is not only bad for your health, it can turn off potential home buyers. If you or someone living in your home smokes, you need to deal with it. Clean the walls, floors and remove butts outside. Also replace the air filter in the heater.

Dripping faucets in the middle of the night are a form of torture. They also turn off buyers. Check all your faucets. If they leak, replace the washers. If they are beaten up or don't turn well, replace the entire faucet.

They say the eyes are the path to the soul of a person. In a home, the same is true for baseboards. They tell a story. If yours are beaten up, they tell a scary tale to a potential buyer. Replace and paint as necessary.

In a perfect world, we would never even touch most of the walls in a home. This is not a perfect world as we all know. If you have holes, dents or cracks, hire a handyman to repair them for a nominal fee and match the paint.

It always amazes me when people spend big dollars on beautiful doors and windows, but then go cheap on screens. Screens are cheap and easy to replace. If yours are beaten up, bent, have holes or rusty, change them out.

First impressions count. Give your front door the evil eye to see if it measures up. If it is a bit plain, consider painting it. If you are going to spend some money, a new front door is the place to do it.

There is one repair you can make that costs practically nothing. Landscaping. Trim back the jungle. Do some weeding. Consider buying some new plants. If you have a dull area of the yard or home, spruce them up with landscaping.

Neither buyers nor sellers know much about roofs. Still, both know that broken shingles are bad news. If you have them, get the fixed. In fact, pay a roofer a small fee to have the entire roof inspected.

Although the current real estate market is slow, it is not dead. There are buyers. Homes are selling. The key is to moving your home is in the details. Buyers have lots to choose from so don't give them a reason to walk away from yours.

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