When you are selling a home – especially if it is the first time you will be doing so – it often seems like everyone has some (often unsolicited) advice for you. However, not all of it will be accurate, meaning you’ll have to learn a little about seperating truths from myths. To help you, […]
Great outdoor living space is a big attraction for Waterloo Region home buyers and comes fairly high on their ‘must have’ lists for many. If your home has a patio then that can be a real selling point in the summer, but once the winter arrives and the temperature drops it’s a harder sell, as […]
In the current property market, it has almost become the norm for real estate agents to suggest to their clients that they have their home professionally staged prior to putting it on the open market for sale. What was once, just a few years ago, considered a trend reserved for those with very high-end properties […]
The charming allure of twinkling Christmas lights adorning your home is hard to resist and for some people, their outdoor Christmas decorations are a huge project that they take pride in creating every year. When used sparingly they can even increase the curb appeal of a Waterloo Region home for sale at a time when […]
If you’re selling your Waterloo Region home this holiday season, then there are some things you need to know about decorating. You will have potential buyers requesting walkthroughs and you may host an open house or two which means you need to consider more than just your personal style and taste when bringing out festive […]
If you are planning to sell your Waterloo Region home, creating great curb appeal in the winter months – something that is a must – can often be rather challenging. The simple fact is that the majority of would-be buyers for your home will pretty much make up their mind about it within just a […]
The leaves changing color indicates the season has changed, and so follows your home decor, and, if you are trying to sell your Waterloo Region home, your overall home staging plan. Decorating and staging for the chillier autumn months means incorporating warm and inviting colors and textures into your home’s interior design. And as it […]
One of the problems with newer homes is that they do tend to lack some of the character that an older home has. Often the visually effective architectural touches you will find in an older home are missing, simply because they serve no real practical purpose and so for the sake of efficiency (and keeping […]
If your home has smaller spaces in it – a less than generously sized dining room or a box of a bedroom perhaps – then the chances are that you have learned to live with that just fine. However when it comes to putting your Waterloo region home on the market for sale these smaller […]
We’ve often written about the importance of staging your home for sale, and staging it for the season at that, many times now. And with the official start of the third season of the year upon us we thought we would address the issue again: When Autumn arrives most of us start thinking about fallen […]
Not every Waterloo region home staging project has to be long, complicated and expensive in order for it to add value to your home when you are getting ready to sell. Here are a few fifteen-minute projects that will improve your home, and the experience of living in it, both for you and its soon […]
There are so many things that if you, as a Waterloo Region home seller, are working with a great Realtor that they can help you with that the process of selling your home, and probably searching for a new one at the same time, is not as hard or as stressful as you might imagine. […]
When they decide to put their Waterloo Region home on the market for sale, homeowners will inevitably – and quite rightly – hear a great deal about the importance of home staging in order for it to appear more appealing to a multitude of different buyers. What is talked about a good deal less though […]
Most people use their home rather differently in the summer than they do in the winter. When its cold outside homes are usually sealed off with every draft that can be kept out excluded, windows are covered with heavy drapes and no one looks outside at the backyard unless they want to check how much […]
With Spring here if you are selling your Waterloo Region home it’s curb appeal is more important than ever. And if the exterior could really use a lick of paint now is a great time to get that particular project underway. The cost of having this done professionally is ..well, not cheap. The good news […]