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Youve decided to sell your home. Now what?
Preparing your home to show to prospective buyers can be a lot of work. After all, the goal is to sell it for top dollar, and buyers have high expectations. Experts say most homeowners will be able to get their home in shape in 30 days, if they stay motivated and work hard.
In 30 days, you want to focus on making your home as move in ready as possible, cosmetically and structurally, says Cara Ameer, broker associate and Realtor at Coldwell Banker Vanguard Realty based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Take care of any needed areas of repair and deferred maintenance start from the outside because if you cant get them in from the outside, they wont look at the inside.
Experts suggest looking online at other houses and attending open houses in your area to see how your home compares and identify what needs to be upgraded.
Agents can also give you recommendations on how you should prepare your home for sale. It always helps to consult with a local real estate agent for your market so you know what to do to make your home competitive and command top dollar, says Ameer.
Bring in a friend, family member or expert to help identify necessary repairs and to help stage the interior to make the home more desirable to buyers. Something very simple that can be easily fixed or made better can have a significant impact on how perspective buyers value your property, says Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac.
Getting your home ready for sale can be a significant investment, and Ameer suggest striking a balance for whats appropriate in your marketplace. The biggest mistake people make is underestimating the amount of money they need to spend, and theyre surprised when they add up the cost of everything. This investment could be money well spent and command a 25% higher return.
To help you get ready for your homes sale in a month, experts provided the following tips:
Landscape and Freshen Up the Exterior
Your homes exterior is the basis for a sellers first impression, experts say. Start working on the garden and the landscaping, advises Michael Corbett, Trulia's real estate expert. You want your grass to be green and to plant some flowers.
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The recent public release of Mountain View's draft North Bayshore Precise Plan quickly has triggered a heated debate about the future of one of the Bay Area's most hallowed office parks.
By spelling out where development should occur as well as the type of construction that's permissible in a 500-acre area north of Highway 101, the 200-plus-page document could alter the neighborhood that houses Google, LinkedIn and other tech titans.
On Tuesday the City Council is scheduled to review the draft plan, which limits new development to a net of 3.4 million square feet, enough room for an estimated 20,000 new jobs.
The draft allows for construction of a mixed-use complex featuring retail space, entertainment facilities and a hotel, as well as space for small businesses and startups.
It lists as priorities protecting wildlife, constructing a pedestrian and bicycle bridge across Highway 101, improving connections to the Stevens Creek Trail and creating parks and open spaces.
What's missing from the draft is any provision for housing.
Whether houses should or shouldn't go in North Bayshore became one of the talking points for nine council candidates at a housing and transportation forum held Tuesday. And they were clearly divided.
"The North Bayshore Precise Plan looks at 500 acres, I think we can look at 100 acres [for housing] near the 101 and Shoreline," said Lenny Siegel, founder of the Campaign for Balanced Mountain View. "It's not going to threaten our open space. ... To me, it's a no brainer but it's going to take a lot of work by people in this community to reverse the course that the city has been on since 2012 when the council rejected by a 4-3 vote the environmentally superior alternative of putting housing in North Bayshore."
He said 5,000 housing units would support a school, retail and other services. Fellow candidates Pat Showalter, Ken Rosenberg and Jim Neal agreed, to varying degrees.
"Housing near jobs is the way of the future," candidate Greg Unangst stressed. "We've got to get away from these long commutes."
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NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP - The shovel hit the dirt this week as construction of the long awaited Promenade a mixed use redevelopment project - officially got under way at the site of the former Acme Supermarket at Sycamore and Jefferson streets.
As heavy equipment rumbled just feet away, the projects managing partner and Newtown Athletic Club owner Jim Worthington turned a ceremonial spade of dirt on Sept. 15. He was joined at the site by township supervisors Mike Gallagher, Ryan Gallagher and Kyle Davis and construction manager Vince Keenan.
Im ecstatic, said Worthington. I feel so good about taking a site that has sat vacant for 14 years with a dilapidated old supermarket and creating something that will be an asset to the community a place people can shop and live and also something that will create tax revenue and jobs for Newtown Township.
After construction crews lay the foundation, the project will begin to take shape in late September or early October as steel beams rise from the site. The goal is to have it under roof by the time the snow flies and open by next July.
Its a great day for Newtown. Its a great day for Sycamore Street. Were very happy this day is finally here and were putting shovels in the dirt, said Ryan Gallagher. Its an excellent example of the township working together with the business sector to improve our community.
Davis added, This is also going to go a long way toward revitalizing this section of Sycamore Street, giving it more of a downtown, pedestrian kind of feel. Its great to see the project is finally moving.
Mike Gallagher agreed. People have waited 18 years for this to happen, he said. I appreciate the fact that Mr. Worthington took the bull by the horns and said he was going to get this done. Were looking forward to the finished product.
The centerpiece of the project will be a three-story multi-use structure that will house 26 luxury apartments on the second and third floors and six high-end specialty retail businesses at street level. The main building will be flanked by a one story 2300 square foot retail building on the southern end of the tract.
Anthropologie, a high-end retailer based in the Philadelphia area, will anchor the retail space in the main building. The store carries a curated mix of womens clothing, accessories, gifts and home dcor that reflects their personal style and fuels their lives' passions, from fashion to art to entertaining.
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Lawrence Bonett Woods was charged on Friday with 16 counts of CSC. We are told, so far police believe the crimes occurred between 1996 and 2000.
Lawrence Bonett Woods was charged on Friday with 16 counts of CSC. We are told, so far police believe the crimes occurred between 1996 and 2000.
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(09/6/14) - The annual Genesee County Firefighters Memorial Service was held Saturday at the Flint Memorial Park Cemetery in Genesee Township.This is the 18th year of the service. The service wasn't very long, only about 45 minutes, but it was powerful. Each of the county's firefighters gathered along with family and friends around the memorial that lists the names of firefighters who sacrificed their lives protecting others. The memorial organizers are looking for surviving family members of...
(09/6/14) - The annual Genesee County Firefighters Memorial Service was held Saturday at the Flint Memorial Park Cemetery in Genesee Township.This is the 18th year of the service. The service wasn't very long, only about 45 minutes, but it was powerful. Each of the county's firefighters gathered along with family and friends around the memorial that lists the names of firefighters who sacrificed their lives protecting others. The memorial organizers are looking for surviving family members of...
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(09/06/14) - Imagine coming home to a driveway full of firefighters, and your house suffocated in smoke.That is exactly what happened to a Burton family Saturday evening. The fire happened at a home in the 1200 block of Vassar Road, that is just off Lapeer in the city of Burton. It started around 4:00 p.m. "I pulled up and I saw the firefighters in my driveway, it scared me to death," said Cody Titswort, Burton. The fire started in the basement and that is where it stayed thanks to the fast a...
(09/06/14) - Imagine coming home to a driveway full of firefighters, and your house suffocated in smoke.That is exactly what happened to a Burton family Saturday evening. The fire happened at a home in the 1200 block of Vassar Road, that is just off Lapeer in the city of Burton. It started around 4:00 p.m. "I pulled up and I saw the firefighters in my driveway, it scared me to death," said Cody Titswort, Burton. The fire started in the basement and that is where it stayed thanks to the fast a...
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Disappointed: Norm Baker was short-changed by nearly $20,000 in his redundancy package from the public service. Photo: Melissa Adams
When Norm Baker accepted a golden handshake from The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, he trusted his colleagues to get the numbers right.
He was wrong.
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Now the Canberra retiree says he has been short-changed by up to $17,000, looks set for a legal battle against his old department and is urging public servants taking redundancies to double-check the fine print.
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"The first offer they gave me was a little over $83,000, then the second formal quote was a little over $80,000," he said.
"So because they'd recalculated and had done the right thing, I thought in the end it might be very close to that number.
"But in my case it was substantially different.
"It's only a modest amount in the scheme of things, certainly compared to others, but it's significant to me."
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