Putting your home up for sale requires some work, and sometimes knowing exactly what to do to prepare for a sale can be difficult. Here is a list of 10 quick tips for preparing your home for sale.

1) Clean up and make it shine! A spotless and clean smelling home is always better than the alternative. One tip for creating a fresh clean scent is adding a little bit of scented cleaner to water in the kitchen sink before each showing — just be sure to drain the sink before the potential buyers arrive.

Learn how to highlight your home’s strengths, downplay its weaknesses, and appeal to the greatest possible pool of prospective home buyers with these 10 great home staging tips.

Less is More
One of the most important things to remember when preparing your home for showings is to get rid of clutter.

At some point in all of our lives, we will be put in a position that requires us to make end-of-life decisions for our loved ones and ourselves. Families often look to their realtor to help make tough decisions about a loved one’s real estate and what is necessary to prepare it for sale. In my own career, I have helped numerous families prepare for this tough period in life. Over the years, I have accumulated a list of things that I always make sure are completed when preparing a house for sale.

Every realtor comes across a home now and then that, for some reason or another, can be a challenge to sell. When a difficult house comes along, rather than turn down the homeowners’ request for help, I always embrace the challenge. After all, the feeling you get from helping a family sell their difficult home couldn’t be more rewarding. A recent sale that required a bit more work than most was a home located in the highly sought-after

There has been an undeniable shift in the age and expectations of home buyers over recent years. Many people shopping for real estate today are getting younger. Rather than your typical home buyer from 30 to 40 years ago, who were most often recently married couples looking for a place to start a family, single women now make up a larger portion of first-time buyers, as do the always-connected mobile professionals.

Experts everywhere are claiming that the perfect time to buy a house is now. Interest rates and home prices are currently at more affordable levels and many mortgage payments are less costly than what you might be paying to rent a space. First time homeowners that seem to be making the most of the opportunity to buy rather than rent are the Millennials. But, they’re not looking to move into just any home. The Millennials are truly a different breed of real estate shoppers that have grown up in an era that