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