Quick Fix Up

Here are five improvements you can make that might help you sell faster in a cooling market:

1. Create a welcoming entrance. Make sure your front door is clean, polish the hardware, ( or replace it if necessary) and repaint the door, if it is in poor shape. Finally, add a new doormat, update your mailbox, and place attractive greenery or flowers on either side of the door.
2. Remove clutter and put it in storage. Box up anything you won't use in the next few months (including holiday decorations, seasonal clothing or sport equipment, old toys etc.) and send it to a storage facility.
3. Replace outdated window treatments with simple white mini blinds or wood blinds, cut-to-measure at a home center. This is a fairly simple fix that can refresh your rooms in just one weekend.
4. Update your storage space with closet systems so the closet looks organized not cluttered.
5. Have wood floors professionally cleaned and polished. If you have worn, dirty, or badly colored carpeting with wood underneath, tear it out and expose the wood.