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Selling your Central Ohio home - it starts with your mailbox II

Mums at Columbus Italian Festival

Selling your Central Ohio home - it starts with your mailbox...

The second helpful hint in the book 101 Ways to Prepare Your Home for Sale is:

2.  If there are flowers planted by the mailbox, make sure they are as fresh as possible.

We have not had a real frost yet this year.... at least in my part of Central Ohio... maybe they have out further.  We will soon then all the impatiens, petunias, daisies, geraniums at the mailbox will be a wet black mess.

Flowers that looked so gorgeous in the war, humid summer.... well not so much this past summer...

I was impressed with the price on this gorgeous, huge mums at the Columbus Italian Festival last weekend.  Every year they have huge mums at a great price....  maybe because even though they are a gorgeous hardy flower their days are numbered too.

Selling your Central Ohio home?

 

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0 comments • Maureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate • October 14 2009 09:49PM

Selling your Central Ohio home - it starts with your mailbox

mailboxSelling your Central Ohio home according to '101 Ways to Prepare Your Home For Sale' it starts with your mailbox...

Not YOUR mailbox but mailboxes in general.... according to this little book they (mailboxes)  gotta be nice or buyers won't look at your house,  it is a place to start...

Words of wisdome from this little book I bought at the Columbus Board of REALTORS store? Making your home attrractive to buyers all starts at the street if you've got a mailbox "on the street."  Central Ohio is kind of a mishmash of urban mailboxes on the house or rural mailboxes at the street or the totally uncharming clustered mailboxes.

The book (it's really more of a booklet) says:

"1. Remove all signs of deterioration.  Replace the post the mailbox sits, on if necessary.  If not painting it to match the house is a nice touch.  Remove rust from the box itself."

Gee is this the start of a series of '101 Ways to Prepare Your Home For Sale'?

maybe...

There are real estate bloggers who take pictures of mailboxes. While they are interesting and some parts of the country seem to have lots of interesting mailboxes, I have a little prayer "Please don't let that happen to me."

Selling Your Central Ohio Home?

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Think about your mailbox.

Real Living HER sells a lot of Central Ohio homes. More than any other brokerage.

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3 comments • Maureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate • October 07 2009 07:55AM

Sellers: Time to Shovel that Snow!

 

Or maybe not yet

We are lucky in Columbus that we do not have snow yet.  I am sure we will have some soon so here are some words of widom from an agent on the east coast, my friend Don Fabrizio -Garcia.

If your house is on the market, you gotta shovel, or hire someone to do it.

 

Via Don Fabrizio-Garcia - Connecticut Real Estate & Appraisals (Nationwide Realty):

We've had three days straight of snow here in the Danbury, Connecticut area .  In New Fairfield, I have over 18 inches of snow in my yards. 

Today I'll be taking another look at a waterfront home for buyers of mine.  It has a number of steps down to the front door.  The home is unoccupied. 

Will I be able to access the front door today?  Probably not without my snow skis... 

Sellers, it's time to get out and shovel. 

  • Clear the steps. 
  • Clear the walkways. 
  • Clear a path around the perimeter of your home. 
  • Make sure the front entry is accessible and safe.

You really don't want someone falling and hurting themselves at your home...I'm sure that will bias their opinion against buying your home! 

This time of year, exterior curb appeal is just as important as it is in the summer.
Sellers are supposed to make sure their lawns are mowed and all landscaping is neat and trimmed.
It's no different in the winter.  Make sure the snow is cleared out so buyers can enjoy the beauty of the snow rather than seeing what a hassle getting into your home can be.

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0 comments • Maureen McCabe Columbus Ohio real estate • December 22 2008 09:02AM