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Bedrooms and baths. Bedrooms and baths Bedrooms - and especially bathrooms - play a major role in the sale of a home. Buyers want bedrooms with ample storage space and baths that are in overall good repair and are sparkling clean. Your bedrooms and bathrooms may already be updated and well-mainta...

Fresh ideas for your kitchen. The kitchen- a key to selling your home Your kitchen is one of the most influential rooms in the sale of your home. When prospective buyers look at your kitchen, they will pay particular attention to its cleanliness, layout and storage capacity. Without making a majo...

 Making Your Home Look its BestThrough our Home Merchandising System, you'll also have access to other extensive resources - a library of magazine; best-selling books on remodeling, decorating, gardening and home maintenance; a "Merchandising Your Home" videotape that is a step-by-step, room-by-r...

Quick Fix Home Sale Projects  Cleaning up and clearing out Prospective buyers are looking for a home that they-and their furnishings- can move right into. To that end, you can best prepare your home for sale by putting your home in move-in condition and neutralizing your décor. Some of the most e...

Decorating to sell Appeal to Buyers When preparing to sell your home, think about how your personal decorating style may affect prospective buyers. You want your home to be clean and clutter free and as neutral as possible so prospective buyers can visualize how their furnishings will look in you...

Landscaping for a luxurious lookLandscaping (or lack of it) can have a powerful impact on potentail buyers ans how they view the "total package" of your home. Simple, inexspensive planting projects are often all it takes to perk up a landscape. If you need assistance in planning your landscape, h...

HOME MERCHANDISING SYSTEM  Home Merchandising System brochure is one in a series that is available from GMAC Real Estate. Each brochure offers valuable information, tips and ideas that will help you effectively prepare your home to sell. To give your home a marketing edge, contact your local GMAC...

MERCHANDISING IS IMPORTANT!  When you put your home on the market, it goes into competition with all the others that are for sale including new-construction homes and those that have been newly remodeled. Merchandising helps your home compete with these and other properties on the market.   The F...

SELLING A HOME  Managing the sale of a home Today, homes aren't sold, homes are marketed. At GMAC Real Estate, our role is not to sell your home; our role is to cause your home to sell.   To manage the home selling process we use exclusive programs and tools from GMAC Real Estate. We then mobiliz...

Remodeling Investments that Pay Back   An Overview Remodeling can make your home more valuable, as well as more livable. Although the cash you spend on improvements seldom yields a dollar-for-dollar return when you sell your home, some remodeling will certainly return more of your investment than...