New Year, New Attitude

I hope your house hasn't been on the market for months, but if it has, rather than worrying about all the time it has been for sale, consider the new year a new start for the listing. Know you can sell. What you've been doing thus far is obviously not working, so take a tour of the house and look at it objectively and with fresh eyes. What can you do differently with the staging or marketing that will help your house to stand out from the pack in the new year.

You can choose to be depressed that you haven't sold, or you can choose to make a fresh start. Change your attitude, change up what you're doing, and get that house sold. Make sure you "de-holiday" your house quickly and put all of the decorations in storage. You won't need them again in this house, anyway. Think about these inexpensive ideas for staging:

• stain the deck
• pressure wash the driveway
• clean the windows
• get a new welcome mat
• add some lovely seasonal potted plants in the bathrooms
• put down new kitchen mats
• change out your dining table stage to reflect the season

Remember, everything you do, do with the express intention of finding your buyer family and selling that house.

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