West Chester & Liberty Twp OH Real Estate: Preparing Your Home To Sell
Are you getting your home ready to list it for sale? Preparing to sell a home in West Chester, Liberty Township or Beckett Ridge can be an overwhelming task if you are not prepared. The process of getting your home ready can be simplified by breaking the areas of your home up into groups.
1. Curb Appeal, Front Entry/Porch & Landscaping
2. First Impression (interior), Foyer
3. Living Room, Dining Room, Family Room & Study
4. Kitchen
5. Bedrooms
6. Finished Lower Level
7. Rear Yard, Decks & Patio Areas
Why is any of this necessary you ask? Because if at all possible you want to avoid that unpleasant feeling of rejection when home buyer after home buyer comes through your home for sale and doesn’t make an offer.
If you can properly stage your home for sale, you’ve greatly increased your chances not just of selling it in today’s challenging real estate market, but of selling it quickly and for significantly more money than you otherwise would have.
Today we’ll address Curb Appeal, Front Entry / Porch & Landscaping. Always remember, this is the first impression home buyers will have of your home. First suggestion: Stop cutting your grass (yourself). Get a service to maintain your lawn while your home is on the market for sale. There are many good lawn services in the West Chester, Liberty Township & Beckett Ridge Ohio areas. A good lawn service can keep your lawn trimmed and edged neatly, will keep your lawn mowed regularly and can also trim your bushes & shrubs and provide fresh mulch (please use black mulch) to complete the great look.
Keep this in mind: If your yard is beautiful and well maintained, home buyers will assume the whole house has been kept the same.
If your home has a front porch make sure that it is freshly scrubbed and clean. If there is enough room, place a couple of chairs and a small table on the porch to stage the area. Caution: Be sure the size of the table & chairs do not overwhelm the space. Also keep in mind, I am not talking about the “$10 plastic chairs & table” here. They need to be something nice!
If your home does not have a front porch just be sure the outside area around the front door is clean, no cob webs and also be sure the front door itself is clean. More than likely the front door needs a fresh coat of paint and probably new hardware. If you have outside lighting/coach lights they probably need replacing also.
This is a great start on preparing your home for sale in today’s market. In the next post in this series of articles we’ll cover First Impressions (interior), Foyer.
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Ohio Real Estate: Tax Credit Deadline Extension
The Congress is close to passing a law to give home buyers who were under contract on a home purchased by April 30 an additional three months to close on the home and still be able to claim the federal home buyer tax credit. The new deadline is going to be September 30th, 2010.
This will not extend the deadline for home buyers to qualify for the tax credit. To qualify for the credit you had to have purchased and had a fully executed contract by April 30th, 2010.
The reasoning given for the extension was that many home buyers were not going to be able to close on their new homes in time for the June 30th deadline due to a backlog of loan applications that lenders were trying to handle.
The real issue here though, are the short sales. Many of these sales were not going to able to be closed in time due to the long delays that occur in trying to complete a short, thus there was going to be a large number of “fall-thru’s” (sales which do not close) and all of these properties were going to be coming back onto the market with a large number of them headed for foreclosure.
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West Chester & Liberty Township OH Homes For Sale: New Listing in Falling Water Subdivision
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5466 Sugar Maple Run, Liberty Township, Ohio 45011
Falling Water Subdivision
$269,900 – Four Bedrooms – Three Full Baths, One Half Bath
This Is A Terrific Two Story Home In Falling Water Subdivision:
- Like New, Move In Condition
- Private, Wooded Lot
- Island Kitchen w/ 42″ Cherry Cabinets & Hardwood Floors
- Bright, Open Morning Room w/ Cathedral Ceiling
- Warm, Inviting Family Room w/ Gas Fireplace
- Spacious Master w/ Adjoining Luxury Bath & Walk-In Closet
- Finished, Walkout Lower Level w/ Rec Room, Study & Full Bath
- Formal Living & Dining Rooms Feature Hardwood Floors
- 9′ Ceilings On First Floor, Security System
- Large Deck Overlooks Wooded Rear Yard
- Dual HVAC Systems
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West Chester & Liberty Township OH Real Estate: This Month In Real Estate – June 2010
This Month In Real Estate – June 2010, Courtesy of LowryTeam.com and Keller Williams Realty Associate Partners
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West Chester & Liberty Twp OH Real Estate: Tuesday Open House
It’s Tuesday, so this must be the Tuesday Open House.
What is Tuesday Open House?? Well, it’s clearly not an “open house”. Open Houses don’t sell homes… good internet marketing does… but it seemed like a good title for this weekly blog post.
It is my way of throwing the doors open on the RealEstate-Ink.com blog and offering up a few quick articles and facts on real estate for the West Chester, Liberty Township, Beckett Ridge, Mason and Fairfield Township, Ohio areas. It is not intended to be all about homes for sale, but it will be about that some of the time…
Mortgage Interest Rates: The tax credits are gone and if you are looking for a reason to buy a home, look no further. Thirty year fixed rate mortgages are 4.60% today according to Third Federal Savings. This is amazing. Just look at this example of what these low rates really mean:
$200,000 mortgage amount @ 5.50% = $1135.58 monthly principal & interest payment
$200,000 mortgage amount @ 4.60% = $1025.29 monthly principal & interest payment
This example shows a monthly savings of $110 on your mortgage payment and this is compared to a mortgage interest rate of 5.50% which is a historically low rate itself!
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