Orange County Home Seller Tips

Here are some tips for consumers who are selling an Orange County, CA home this spring.

Sellers Should:

1. Put Your Home on the Internet. More than 80% of buyers use the web to find homes now. Listings with six good photos get almost 300% more viewers than ones with just one photo. (PS–Orange County listing Realtors…are you reading this?

2. Make your house look good. Hire “I’m Gorgeous Inside,” San Clemente’s own decorator firm to give you a consultation for $200. Or, just hire Gail Marino and Lisa Garcia, owners, to redecorate any dowdy rooms FOR you. Contact them at 949-361-0580 today. Their ideas will gain you far more in selling price than what they cost you for their brilliant redecorating of your home in the San Clemente or South Orange County area.

3. Price it Properly. Don’t ask too much. Get real. Weigh what it costs you to go six months before selling your home at YOUR price against what you’d get by dropping the price 10% NOW. The market a year or so ago is not there today…just accept it.

4. Emphasize Green Features — Swap regular light bulbs for the new fluorescent ones everywhere. Install faucet filters. This means lots to some people and can become a tie-breaker against homes of the same square footage.

5. Don’t Sell it as a Fixer-Upper - Go ahead and do the cosmetic things first. Paint with taupe, not white. Replace old kitchen and bathroom fixtures that have become outdated, such as toasters that recede back into the wall, chromed towel racks, goofy toilet roll holders, etc.

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