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Want to sell your home in this wicked market? You better start with home staging. In this market, you need to do everything you possibly can to give your home an advantage when it comes to selling because of the huge supply of homes on the market.

To be really effective, you need to look at both the outside and the inside of your home. Here are 3 tips to get you started with the outside of your home:

1. Drive up to your house to see what prospects see when they drive up to your house. Notice if any paint is peeling or the landscaping looks terrible. Remember, any negative impression they have of the outside of the house is going to make them think the house was not taken care of. Many prospects will drive by your house and look before even calling your agent so make sure they get a good first impression of the outside of your house.

2. Now stand outside your front door and look around everywhere. While your agent is trying to get the right key to open the door, potential buyers are standing behind her looking around at everything. You want to see what they will see. Are there dead plants that you need to remove? Remember, first impressions are everything.

I can not stress enough how important it is that you clean these things up. In fact, in this wicked market I think you should go a step further by applying a fresh coat of paint over the entire outside of your house.

3. Most owners forget the backyard, do not do that. True, it is not as important as the front yard but do not neglect it. Make sure the grass is green, the weeds are out and if possible, throw in a cheap, less than $100 outdoor table and chairs for the backyard.

All of the tips above lead into this last tip: put yourself in the potential buyers shoes. What would you want the seller to fix before placing an offer on your home? What first impressions do you get about your house? Is your home something that you would buy?

I am always surprised at how frugal an owner will be when it comes to staging his house. Remember, every dollar you spend on properly staging your home will return $2 on the sell side. What other investment can you double your money in such a short period of time? Using proper home staging will sell your house at a higher price and in a shorter amount of time.

I hope you enjoy this article on how to sell your house and that it provides you with a few creative ideas about how to get your house to sell. If you are unable to sell your home, have you thought about making it a rental home?? With the right property management company, being a landlord is easy. For more information go to property management Fresno CA