11 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Home Owners and House Signs

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As a maker of house signs it never ceases to amaze me at how few home owners consider the importance of having a decent house sign on their homes. We are told that first impressions are the most important, well consider this, the first thing a new visitor to your home will probably see will be your house sign.


Take a walk down any street and you will see a remarkable variety of house signs and what I can only describe as non house signs.

I recently wandered through my village taking note of the house signs adorning the various properties. It is a small fairly prosperous place, the houses for the most part reflect this. They are on average well maintained and most have well cared for gardens showing every sign of having reasonably house proud owners.


However, the number of homes with frankly, tatty house signs is astonishing!

I saw house signs made of plywood and written with felt tip, old wooden signs so worn and sad they were unreadable, a house name painted on a concrete building block in a very shaky hand! One cast resin sign had some of its letters missing and one, with the name of a farm written on cardboard! Fully half of the houses in the village have signs that in no way reflects the quality of the properties.


Our village is not unusual. The sad fact is that many home owners just don’t consider a house sign as being important. This is poor thinking for many reasons. Let us for the moment put aside the aesthetic reasons and consider the practical downside.


We are all doing more of our shopping on the internet, these goods have to be delivered, your local postman knows his route and will usually deliver to the right address no matter what the state of the house sign but drivers for private delivery firms and even Parcelforce often spend hours every day trying to find badly signed houses in long roads.


This is not only inconvenient, its harming the environment! The extra fuel burned driving up and down and the hot air generated by all the foul language must be punching great holes in the ozone layer!


Also if ever you have the misfortune to call for one of the emergency services you will be less than pleased if the paramedics can’t find you with the defibrillator, or the burglar escapes before the police can find your house!


The aesthetic reasons are also pretty compelling, you may have spent thousands on improving and decorating your home, you have maintained the exterior of your property and paid that landscape gardener a small fortune to remodel your estate.

Now look at your house sign, does it really reflect the love and hard work you have put into your home? If not it may be time to consider a new house sign.


You do not have to pay vast fortunes for a suitable house sign.The main thing is to choose a design of the house sign that suits the quality and the style of your home.


There are plenty of sites on the internet selling house signs.Try to focus in on the style or material you would prefer for your house sign and narrow the field by doing a focused search on a search engine.


Browsing these sites and taking the time to choose a house sign that will enhance the selling of your house will be time well spent.

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26 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Home Selling Tips for Sell-It-Yourself Owners

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Imagine selling your home within two weeks of listing your home, at your asking price — without paying a commission. It’s not only possible, it’s practically guaranteed if you play your cards right and follow these home-selling tips.


Home Selling Tip #1: Research All Your Options


Even if you’ve decided to sell your house yourself, you’ve got a multitude of options. Where you advertise, how you advertise, how you prepare your house, how much you ask for it – all those things require research to be sure that you’re getting your best possible deal. Some avenues to pursue include a flat-fee MLS listing, advertising in local newspapers, and posting your house for sale on an FSBO (for sale by owner) web site like www.fsbon.com.


Home Selling Tip #2: Price Your House Right


If there were one number one home selling tip, this one would be it.

Your asking price on your house will be one of the first things that prospective buyers look at – you don’t want them to rule your house right out of the ballpark. For your fastest sale at the highest possible profit, set your asking price within 10% of the average price in your neighborhood. Finding that out takes a little research. You can interview Realtors or look through recently sold listings. The Internet makes it even easier. There are a number of web sites (www.housevalue.com, www.homegain.com) where you can look up the average selling price of recently sold houses in your zip code and neighborhood. Start with that figure and go up or down according to your home’s condition.


Home Selling Tip #3: Before You List: Clean Up Your Act


Want to up that asking price to the high end of your neighborhood bracket? Take a week or two to do some serious face-lifting. The better your house looks, the more appealing it will be to buyers. The more appealing it is at first glance, the more likely it is that you’ll get an offer fast.


For a quick cleanup with maximum effect, try these tasks:


Rake and manicure lawns and yards. Keep grass mowed, shrubs trimmed and paths swept and clean. If you can’t repaint your house, give it a good wash with a high-pressure hose. Use flower power to your benefit.

Flowers are an amazingly simple way to perk up the appearance of any home.


Inside, de-clutter and depersonalize. Improvements that will pay off, especially if you can do them yourself: modernizing bathroom fittings, repainting the kitchen, and putting new carpeting in the living room. Once the house is stripped to the bare, clean essentials, fill in bare spots with impersonal decor – flower arrangements or matching lamps, for instance.


Home Selling Tip #4: Take Advantage of ALL the Benefits Offered By An

FSBO Web Site


When you’re ready to list your house, choose an FSBO web site that offers you extras like Virtual Home Tours (www.fiftystatesfsbo.com has a great sample), free professional signs, and partner listings with other FSBO sites.


Home Selling Tip #5: Learn How to Write a Killer Ad


Your classified home selling ad is one of your most powerful home selling tools. Learn to write an ad that will sell your home FOR you. Use descriptive words with positive connotations – ‘cozy’ instead of ’small’, for instance. Aim headlines at the right market – ‘Summer on the Lake, Winter by the Fire’ will immediately draw attention. You can find more great home selling tips online (www.fsbotips.com) or through a sell your house fast course.

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