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Tis the season for pumpkin spice lattes, football games… and basic home maintenance?
Yes! As the fall continues to creep in, there is basic home maintenance that will help your clients keep their house in tip-top shape. Realty Times offers eight easy tips to pass along to your clients (or for yourself) on making the full transition into fall for their homes.
Stow your mower. With the cooler months ahead, it’s time to start thinking about how you are going to stow your lawn mower. Before sa...
Selling Your Home In The Winter… By Rose Sawyer, Broker Associate
Here in the Poconos, selling a home during the winter months can be a challenge.
Dreary, cold weather can keep buyers away and heighten fears of your home staying on the market longer than expected.
If you are serious about getting your home sold, you should realize that this is actually a great time to sell your home. You may think you should take your home off the market because there...
TIPS TO FLIP !
By Terri Ditty, Broker Associate
When viewing potential investment properties, research the surrounding area and consult with a knowledgeable real estate agent. Remember, even the best flipped house will be difficult to sell in an undesirable neighborhood. Once you have found the property, secured financing, passed inspection and purchased the house, the real work begins! Here are our tried-and-true tips for a successful flip:
1. Establish...
Tips for Maximizing Small Living Spaces!
By: Terri Ditty, Broker Associate
Clutter driving you nuts? Did you move in with someone only to find you have duplicates of everything from headboards to can openers? Here are 7 tips to help you make the most out of small spaces:
1. Weed out the extras. Donating to a yard sale will alleviate some clutter and a trip to the local Goodwill even more. A good rule of thumb: Anything you haven’t needed in a year ca...
Making Little Feel Big:
Tips to Upsize Your Small House
Has your home started to feel a little small for your family? Whether it is your primary residence, or your vacation home here in the Poconos, it happens to the best of us. The things we own gradually end up colonizing a lot of our free space, and the house which felt “just right” a few years ago can suddenly feel as tiny as a shoe closet.
Fortunately, there are some simple tricks you can try to supersize your small space...
Knock Knock! Who's There?
Home Buyer at Your Door!
All joking aside…. it IS Spring; and your front door is the number one item with the largest return on investment when considering which upgrades you can perform to help increase the value of your home and attract buyers when you looking to sell your home here in Pennsylvania.
When you’re preparing your house for the market, almost every agent iwill explain how valuable curb appeal is when it comes to marketing your home h...
Love at First Sight?
By: Terri Ditty, REALTOR®, Associate Broker
Eight Seconds, folks. That’s all it takes for most buyers to form a first opinion of your house. It’s not long, so you really, really, really need to make it count. Ideally, your home will impress and motivate a buyer to swiftly make an offer.
There’s no denying the importance of curb appeal. It bears repeating again and again, how your home looks from the street will shape a buyer’s overall expectations. In fact,...
