If you’re ready to sell your home, here are a few key things to do before your house is on the market.
- Don’t get emotionally involved. You need to stop thinking of your house as a home and start thinking of it as a product.
- Be smart about colors. If you’re going to paint the interior and/or exterior, don’t let your personal taste come into play. Choose neutral

It’s a difficult market for those looking to sell their home. Despite recent indications that housing sales may once again be picking up, this is still clearly a buyers market. Prices are down, inventory is up, foreclosures are abundant, home loans are more difficult to obtain and few people are looking to buy. The current conditions clearly favor buyers, not sellers.
Even so, there are still many people out there

- Not making your home easily accessible for showings. Try and have someone at home during the day. Make sure there’s parking available.
- Trying to hard when showing your home. No words you say are going to convince someone to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. Your aggressive words can only irritate potential buyers. It’s the house that’s going to make the sale.
- Setting too high of a

- Buying a house for the looks. When you look at a house, real estate agents dress the house up for you. They add just the right colors, plants and furniture. Try and look at the house for what it is. Think of the square footage, the location and the condition.
- You didn’t research the neighborhood. This doesn’t mean just checking to see that there are good schools and

When you sell your home you’ll hopefully end up with no more home loan and tens of thousands of dollars left over. However, your realtor is going to get paid a hefty commission, leaving you with much less money than you thought you’d have. But did you know that you can negotiate these fees with your realtor? In fact, before choosing one, you can shop around and ask each one

Sure, some of us just hire a realtor and let them do all the work. But a lot of us just don’t need a realtor anymore. A realtors job is to ask us questions like what type of house we’re looking for and in what area. Then they drive us around and show us homes that meet our criteria. Then they negotiate the price down, get all the paperwork in

We always hear about how owning a house is the American dream. While it is better to own a home than rent in the long run, here are a few key points that might make you reconsider buying a house, at least for a little while longer.
- Property taxes. Homeowners have them, renters do not.  The amount varies on the value of your house and where you live, but