Fast Fixes to Get Your House Sold

When you’re prepping your home for sale, it’s usually the little things that make all the difference. Concentrate especially on your kitchen and bathrooms to impress your would-be buyers. Money Magazine recently published a series of “Best fast fixes to get your house sold” worth checking out.

Home Staging Tips for the DIY Crowd

No one can get your home ready for the masses quite like a professional home stager, but we realize that the term itself, let alone the concept, is still relatively new to many Oklahomans. If your Realtor is not purchasing the time of a Home Stager for you and it isn’t within your budget to […]

Home Sellers.. Your Window is Shrinking!

Yes, it’s true… the clock is ticking for first-time home buyers who want to take advantage of the federal home buyer tax credit, but buyers aren’t the only ones who need to kick it into high gear! If you’re thinking about selling your home, NOW is the time to get it on the market with […]

Supply and Demand – In Your Favor?

It’s a simple factor in market economics… supply and demand dictate pricing. As demand increases, so will prices if supply doesn’t keep up. As demand decreases, so will prices if supply doesn’t follow suit. As supply increases, prices will drop if demand doesn’t keep up. As supply decreases, prices will skyrocket if demand doesn’t drop. […]

A Staged Home: Before and After

Every home I stage has its own unique situation. Some people continue to reside in a home until it sells. Some move out before it has even been listed. Some homes have enough clutter and memories to fill up eight PODS in one week (true story). On the flip side are those dwellings that have very little […]

Home Sellers Nervous? Why?

Ah, yet another list for Oklahoma City to add to it’s quickly-growing stack of bragging rights.. One of the Top 5 places to sell a home, according to ABC. Anyone out there noticing a trend yet?

What To Look For In a Home Stager

This concept of allowing total strangers into your home to handle your personal belongings AND tell you what is good enough for other people’s viewing pleasure can be daunting. As with hiring any professional to work in your home, trust is a must! I have created a brief checklist of things to look for in […]

Hey Sellers, Ever Read a Buyer's Mind?

Let’s have a little fun today! I post a lot of pointers here for home sellers and spend even more time advising my selling clients of what they MUST do to overcome the competition and get their home sold.  I even work hard to get feedback from potential buyers who tour my listings, so my […]

Home Pricing is Easy, Right?

Over the weekend, one of my favorite clients emailed me a list of homes that Zillow had listed as recent sales in their neighborhood, so I researched each property individually via Oklahoma County records. See the email in full below, and you’ll see my replies to each section in Red: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 […]

Home Info at Your Fingertips

…LITERALLY Late last night I was out running around the metro sticking signs in front of my current listings, but these aren’t your typical real estate signs.  These signs are a bit more interactive. In my never-ending quest to use the latest and greatest technologies to increase marketing exposure for my clients, I’ve employed what […]