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301 Simple Things You Can Do to Sell Your Home Now and For More Money Than You Thought: How to Inexpensively Reorganize, Stage, and Prepare Your Home for Sale |  | Author: Teri B. Clark
Creator: Marie Lujanac
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL)
Category: Book
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 232516
Media: Paperback
Edition: illustrated
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0910627061
Dewey Decimal Number: 643.120973
EAN: 9780910627061
ASIN: 0910627061
Publication Date: March 6, 2007
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Product Description
Numerous studies show that a house that is well polished on the surface and staged properly will appeal to more buyers, sell faster, and most importantly, sell for more money. You may not be able to improve the market value of your house, but you can improve its marketability. Remember: first impressions count the most. Home Staging is the art of decorating a home to sell fast and for the highest amount. Home stage experts and consultants get thousands of dollars to do what you can easily do inexpensively, with little or no money. Keep in mind this important fact: the way you live in your home and the way you market it for sale are two very different things. In this groundbreaking new book you will learn how small color changes will increase your home's value, minor repairs and de-cluttering tricks, how to rearrange your furniture and art work, decorating tips and ideas, how to look at your house from the buyer's viewpoint, how to add minor accessories, which items stay and what must go, which minor changes will bring you the greatest return, how to bring out a home's best features, table settings, candles, what photos must go and which ones stay, how to minimize problem areas, how to position your house for the marketplace, what music to play, what scents to spray, how to use design psychology techniques, lighting techniques, landscaping secrets, what to do with garages, basements and attics, what color you should never use, how to ensure a positive traffic flow through rooms, how to use mirrors and natural light, and much more. This brand new exhaustively researched book is the ultimate resource for novices and pros alike; it will guide you through every step of the process with hundreds of innovative ideas that you can put to use right away. This book gives you the proven strategies and innovative ideas used by the experts everyday that you can easily do your self. The book also includes a full-color insert packed with photos of before and after shots!
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 A good book, but perhaps not the best May 28, 2010
Retired Scientist (USA)
This is a useful book on home staging, and the pictures are a nice plus. However, for my money Marcia Turner's book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging your Home to Sell, despite its stupid name, is more useful and more comprehensive. But you couldn't go wrong using both books. The payoff for taking their advice covers your cost many many times over!
 Moving is Simple with "Simple" February 22, 2010
NMHawki1 (Albuquerque, NM)
This book delivers the goods,covering all the aspects of making your home into a buyer's dream house, from the driveway to the back yard of your property. It is also a wonderful resource for redecorating your home, as "Simple" is easy to read and follow. You might just decide to stay once you finish following the advice. sandy
301 SIMPLE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO SELL YOUR HOME NOW February 19, 2010
TONDA25 (HOUSTON, TX)
THIS IS A GREAT LITTLE BOOK. IT GOES ROOM BY ROOM TELLING YOU HOW TO DECLUTTER AND DEPERSONALIZE YOUR HOME SO THAT YOU GET THE MOST MONEY FOR THE SALE OF YOUR HOME. THE AUTHOR HAS TONS OF TIPS FOR DOING REPAIR WORK YOURSELF, SUCH AS PATCHING DRYWALL, CLEANING THE DRIVEWAY, STAINING THE DECK, AND REPAIRING WINDOWS. THIS BOOK TELLS YOU WHAT PROSPECTIVE BUYERS LOOK FOR AND HOW TO GET THAT LOOK. AND, AMAZON HAS THE BEST BOOKS AT THE BEST PRICES.
Good info, but poorly written and very low quality publication January 14, 2010
Stephanie V (Upstate NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are definitely some good tips here, some of which are common sense but some information that inexperienced home sellers (like myself) can definitely benefit from. But I was distracted from the good advice by the extraordinarily low quality of this book. There are typos and grammatical errors EVERYWHERE! The editing was nonexistent, or done so shoddily that it was a distraction to the content of the book. And the "full-color photo insert" is laughable - amateur photos taken by homeowners themselves, or possibly by their realtors, showing before & after photos which may have been helpful, if they weren't of such poor quality and so small that it's difficult to see anything. If you're looking for examples of colors, decoration, layouts, etc., these photos are not helpful in the least.
But the overall information is useful, even though the quality of this book is very poor, the chapters are organized somewhat haphazardly, and much of the information (e.g. step-by-step instructions on how to remove wallpaper, or fix a toilet, or a hundred other home improvement projects) is best found elsewhere in more detail.
Worth checking out of a library? Yes. Worth buying yourself? No.
 Not as good as I was hoping it would be.... January 10, 2010
Flush Barrett-Browning (Tennessee Valley)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not as good as I was hoping it would be. This book wastes a great deal of time having home stagers brag how successful home staging is. Surely the reader thinks staging worth a try since they've purchased the book, so it's preaching to the choir.
The pictures and text don't match - for example, the text says limit the number of items on the mantel to three and later uses a picture of a mantel with several items as a 'good' choice. This happens over and over. Plus all the pictures appear twice - once in black and white and again in color (obviously a later addition to the book).
Staging advice consists of ideas such as - place a mirror in the foyer so the buyer can see himself and imagine himself in your home. I asked a psychologist about this one and he said it's 'reaching.' Wish it all were really that easy.
If you buy only one staging book, don't make it this one.
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