You Have 15 Seconds to Sell Your Home! 11 Steps You Can Take to Sell Your Home for Top Dollar

Selling your home? Here are some suggestions to helpimagination fill rooms with their own belongings. Once
you sell yours for more than your next door neighbor's,they visualize their favorite chair in a particular spot,
and faster! Most buyers will know within 15 SECONDSyou have a sale.6. Pack away your personal
after crossing the threshold if they want your home.photographs, trophies, diplomas, and small accessories
But first, you need to attract them inside!11 steps toand stack them neatly in the garage or a separate
take to sell your home for top dollar1. Start at thestorage space. That will also protect you from having
street. The buyer's first glimpse of your home muststrangers view your personal life.7. If your home looks
entice them inside. Design Psychology goes furthertoo bare, replace your personal treasures with house
than mere curb appeal. Here are some easy additionsplants or cuttings from the garden. Be creative.Use
you can make to help your home outshine thetree branches and fresh flowers to bring nature
competition:Add a couple of BIG plants, either inindoors.Fill vases and glass jars with fresh cuttings and
hanging baskets or pots, to the porch, which will leadset them in baskets.Add green house plants in winter,
buyers' eyes to the entrance.The first color our eyesspring, and fall.During hot selling seasons, use green,
process is yellow, so place yellow flowers near thesilver and gray foliage to help keep your home visually
front door.Plant white flowering annuals, since they lookcool.8. Lighting affects emotions and is a crucial design
clean and show up better at night.2. Get rid of brownelement for happiness, so turn on the lights when
or dead leaves and bare spots in the yard. Add mulchshowing your home. Day-like light bulbs enhance
to cover bare dirt near the house. Bright flowers holdhappiness. Amber and pink light bulbs warm, while blue
the eye and "fill" empty areas, but you don't need tolight cools.9. Air the house out. You get used to odors,
add plants to every space. Just make sure thatbut buyers shouldn't smell anything other than natural
everything looks neat.3. Paint your front door a happypleasing scents like wood burning in the fireplace or
color. Yellow-gold (amber), red (blue-based), sage,fresh lemon in the summer. Cut up a grapefruit and run
apple, or forest green, depending on the other colorssections through the garbage disposal. It's both
of your home, will attract the eye and create happyrefreshing and clean smelling.10. Buyers like
feelings. Buyers won't notice the Color Psychologytemperatures around 70 degrees in the winter and 67
you're employing, but they'll love the result.4. Oncedegrees in the summer, so turn up the thermostat in
buyers step inside the front door, they usually makethe winter and turn it down in the summer.11. Park your
their minds up within 15 SECONDS, so first impressionscar out of the way and encourage buyers to park in a
are vitally important. Focus your attention on the firstspace where their car won't block the
wall buyers will see, and then hang a mirror on thatview.Remember, you've only got 15 seconds to sell
wall large enough to reflect the buyer's image. It willyour home, but by using Design Psychology techniques,
psychologically reinforce the buyer's presence in theyou can convert lookers into buyers and get top dollar
home when they see themselves in the mirror, causingfor your home.(c) Copyright 2004, Jeanette J. Fisher.
them to imagine living in your home.5. Go beyond justAll rights reserved.Professor Jeanette Fisher, author of
clearing clutter, and remove furnishings that don't addDoghouse to Dollhouse for Dollars, Joy to the Home,
to the setting. Also clear bathroom and kitchenand other books teaches Real Estate Investing and
countertops. Under-furnished homes let the buyer'sDesign Psychology.