For Sellers
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Your guide to hiring the listing agent who can set you up for success.Your home is where you’ve lived and loved, where you’ve laughed and cried, where you’ve huddled and snuggled. You’re the pea, your home is the pod. And you’ve been through a lot…

Nikki Songie
The most critical things to do to increase your home’s value before putting it on the market.As a smart seller, you'll want your home in tip-top shape — but you don't want to eat into your profits by overspending on home improvements. You won't be around to enjoy them…

Nikki Songie
Walk-throughs, closing costs, and other items to check off your list before the big finish!Closing time. When you're heading into the closing process, it's time for the last hurrah — and hurrahs are in order.If you’re here, that means you’ve found a buyer and…

Nikki Songie
How to figure out exactly what you want, and how to work with the experts who’ll help you get it.Selling, a famous salesman once said, is essentially a transfer of feelings.You love and cherish your home. You want the next owner to fall in love with it, too — through…

Nikki Songie
You often judge a house by it’s good looks. But guess what? Now you can also judge it by its IQ. Long-buzzed about smart home technology — think smart thermostats, smart lighting, and app-controlled security systems — are moving into more homes. Smart home tech can up…

Nikki Songie
Everything has value. Especially your home.And when it comes to selling your home, assigning a price to that value is complicated. You made memories there. You’ve got a major financial interest in the place, too.Buyers think of value, but they’re more concerned with…

Nikki Songie
Selling, a famous salesman once said, is essentially a transfer of feelings.You love and cherish your home. You want the next owner to fall in love with it, too — through photos, through words, and through the experience of walking through your front door. But, perhaps…

Nikki Songie
Home improvement pros and DIYers tout a fresh coat of paint as a favorite among low-cost home upgrades that can make a huge impact. But what else can you do to accessorize and decorate? Sometimes the little things can make a bigger difference than you'd…

Nikki Songie
When you think about staging a new listing, you often think in terms of depersonalization and decluttering. Minimizing decorative elements and personal items is one way of helping buyers to envision themselves in a space, and it’s often an effective way to…

Nikki Songie
Here’s what you can do to get your home ready for its big reveal.
1. Time It RightShowings and even some open houses are by appointment these days and might limit the number of people in your place at once. To maximize traffic, avoid having your open house during…

Nikki Songie
5 Ways to Keep Severe Weather from Doing a Number on Your Yard A new way to look at landscaping can protect your yard from severe weather patterns.…

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