Home Builder Developer - Interior Renovation and Design

Properly prepping your house to put on the real estate market is a vital step in increasing your chances of getting a good offer on your home. However, there is a fine line between making your home feel comfortable while also de-personalizing it enough so that a potential buyer can visualize themselves living in your home.

You want to show your house in the best light possible, literally. To create depth and make your home look as large as possible to potential buyers, start by making sure your home is well-lit in all rooms. Make sure your curtains are open and all the light bulbs in your lighting fixtures are working.

Along with having good lighting, you have to declutter your home. This cant be emphasized enough. Even if you feel youve put enough things away or have taken many of your possessions to an off-site storage facility, you may have to do more. Your real estate agent should be able to objectively tell you if youve decluttered to the degree necessary to enhance the positive aspects of your home.

Be ruthless about cleaning your home when youre getting ready to put it on the real estate market. Remove any unpleasant odors before a showing. HOWEVER, make sure you dont leave behind a strong chemical smell, like bleach. It may lead a potential buyer to think you are actually trying to cover up a major problem. Do whatever is necessary to remove the cause of the odor dont just mask it.

Some other key things to do when cleaning and decluttering your home include the following:

Take pictures of yourself and your children, including their names, off walls and other places. Remove any large family portraits and replace them with mirrors, if possible. Mirrors also help create more depth in your home.

Put all valuables away or remove completely from your property if possible, including items that have a valuable autograph on them.

Remove prescription drugs from your medicine cabinets or anywhere else you have them stored. Completely remove from your property if possible.

Put toys and gaming systems away.

Remove pets from the property if you are having an open house and when your real estate agent has scheduled showings.

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Friday, March 14, 2014 CL&P Says (Mostly) No to Tree-Trimming Halt

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Connecticut Light and Power will not be curtailing most of its more radical tree trimming temporarily as requested earlier this week by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA).

PURA had requested CL&P and United Illuminating suspend their programs known as enhanced tree trimming and enhanced tree removal while it reconsiders tree-trimming policies for both companies.

Despite an initial statement from CL&P that said it will of course comply with their request to voluntarily curtail our enhanced tree trimming program, the company sent a letter to PURA Thursday asking to continue with any enhanced trimming that has already been agreed to.

The letter stated that there are 65 local tree crews including 170 employees working on the program. If all ETT work is suspended or if the suspension continues indefinitely, there is a risk that tree trimming contractors will shift resources out of state, adversely impacting the Companys ability to respond to a major weather event, the letter said. Additionally, suspending all such work until a final decision is rendered will have significant cost and schedule impacts on the ETT program.

Late today PURA agreed to CL&Ps request.

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A Tauranga tile seller has been awarded more than $17,000 for being unfairly dismissed.

Tile Trends, a tiling company based across the North Island, has been ordered to fork out more than $10,000 for humiliation and $7280 for lost wages to former tile-saleswoman Jan Mazzola.

Ms Mazzola was fired from Tile Trends' Tauranga store after the company alleged complaints had been made about her, including that she had been handing a disproportional amount of tiling work to her boyfriend Kevin Langford.

In a decision released on Saturday, the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) ruled Tile Trends had dismissed Ms Mazzola unfairly and conducted a poor investigation into complaints.

"Ms Mazzola was a long standing employee of some nine years and had never received any warnings," the ERA's judgment said.

The ERA noted there had been an incident in 2012 at a work function, resulting in a complaint by the Tauranga branch manager Cherie Sullivan.

"The incident and the complaint soured the relationship between Ms Mazzola and Ms Sullivan," the ERA said.

In July 2013, Tile Trends told Ms Mazzola that complaints had been made by staff and customers, but refused to hand over detailed information about those complaints.

The ERA ruled the company should have provided all available information about complaints when requested.

It said the company had not acted as a fair and responsible employer would, failed to comply with statutory obligations and conducted a poor investigation into Ms Mazzola's behaviour.

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There was anger at the Christchurch Home Show after a fire this morning set off the venue's automatic sprinkler system and did millions of dollars of damage to trade stalls and the products in them.

More than 180 stalls were affected and the home show had to be cancelled.

As the people started streaming in, they were told to turn around. The home show was off.

A small fire started at about 7am this morning inside the CBS Arena.

It triggered the venue's automatic sprinkler system, which rained down on and potentially damaged many of the 180-odd trade stalls set up inside.

"Obviously there's been a lot of smoke damage," says Vbase general manager Darren Burden. "The sprinklers activated and the fire brigade were on scene pretty quickly."

More than 1200 people were expected to attend the Rebuild and Renovate Christchurch Home Show over the weekend.

"The business that these shows can unfold for local businesses is in the millions," says event organiser Amanda Magnus. "It's a huge blow to everyone involved."

Many of the stalls were also at the Auckland Home Show, including Patrick Scott who had more than $150,000 worth of spas and pool products inside.

"I hate to think. It's going to take us quite a while to work out cost of sales, cost of goods," says Mr Scott.

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