Selling Your Home During the Winter?

Here are some tips:

• Keep your place warm. You want people to look at your home! If you aren't living there or even if you are, spend the money to keep it warm. Everyone expects to walk into warmth when going indoors, make sure to do what it takes to keep buyers wanting to linger inside your home.

• Keep lighting in mind during the winter months. Winter means it gets dark earlier. Put lighting on timers inside and outside the house. Every room in the house can be on timers.

• Just because it's winter doesn't mean you shouldn't have flower boxes and greenery at your front door, in pots. On the contrary, it's really warm and welcoming. Just make sure they are seasonally appropriate.

• Keep snow off the back patio and front porch. There is nothing more annoying to buyers than having to trudge through snow up to the door! You want people to go out and see the back of the house too. Walk to your back fence and see what the back of your house looks like. Does it look boring? You can keep bright flower pots by the back door, as it softens the look of the house in the dull winter.

• A Must Do: put out the summer photos of your great outdoor deck and/or backyard and front yard, so people know what it will be like in warmer months. Especially if you have bulbs that pop up every year... buyers would love to know what their future yard will look like come Spring.