New Year's Resolutions for Your Home!
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Understanding Flooring Options for Selling Your Home
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Many of the decisions made regarding flooring, in terms of what buyers will prefer to see, will be market specific. Often the price-point of the house will dictate the extent of upgrades required for flooring.
Updates and Repairs
- Replace worn, stained, or outdated carpet
- Stretch and tack down loose carpet
- Check grout for condition, and re-grout cracked or recessed grout (clean stained or discoloured grout)
- Touch-up minor floor scratches
- Refinish worn hardwood
- Upgrade as necessary
Types of Flooring
Laminate
- Most often used to replicate wood, this versatile and durable flooring can also mimic the look of tile...
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Why Your Empty House Won't Sell |
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While it is possible to sell an empty house, it is rare. If you have ever tried to sell a vacated house absent of its furnishings, you have likely experienced this first hand - numerous buyers passing on the home, and feedback that makes no sense to you. What do you mean the bedrooms look small? The living room isn't an awkward layout! Since you have lived in the house, you know how great it looks when it’s fully furnished and decorated, and you understand how each room should be set up. The trick is in helping your buyers to understand this.
Unfortunately, the ability to visualize a space is a skill that not everyone has. In fact, only about 10% of your prospective buyers have this ability to properly visualize a space beyond what they see in front of them. This means when you are selling a vacant home, you’re missing out on 90% of potential market! Vacant homes will often take much longer to sell than a properly staged home (72% longer in fact, according to RESA®’s 2014 survey). Not only does furnishing a home properly help buyers to understand the optimal placement...
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Considering Redecorating or a New Renovation for the New Year? |
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Enlist the help of our expert design team to help! Whether you are looking for a dramatic change, or simply want to freshen up your space, our expert designers can help! Initial consultations start at $150 - let us help you with all of your design decisions, from room planning to colour palette selection, furniture purchases, and more.
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Know someone who would make a great home stager?
Check out our training division,
SLS Academy, for the most comprehensive home stager training, available completely online! All of the benefits of in-class training, with the convenience of learning at your own pace, from the comfort of your home.
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Waterloo Region's #1 Home Seller's workshop returns!
Tuesday Feb 28, 2017 at 6:30pm!
Great tips for preparing your home for sale, including:
- How much you should spend to update/stage your house
- The #1 thing that should be removed from every home
- Our top 3 home staging tips
Click
here for event information and FREE tickets
Donations accepted at the door for the
Kitchener-Waterloo MS Walk for this event - all donations welcome
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