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Sell Your Home... Make It The One The Buyers Desire
By Jacqueline, Fri Dec 9th
b>How to Make Your House the one that they WANT to buy More and more properties are coming onto the market each week,autumn is a favourite time for selling and buying... as long asit can all be completed in good time for Christmas. If not, theSpring is the next chance for a rush of buyers to appear. With so many properties on the market... when someone ischoosing which property to look at make yours their first choice!
The estate agents particulars will feature a picture of theoutside... make it appealing... * doors and windows need to look GOOD. Fresh paint or stainhelps and nothing should be broken. * hedges need to be neatlytrimmed. Fences neat. Lawns mown. Flower beds weed free. *brightly coloured and well maintained hanging baskets and flowerboxes make it look extra special. For both Autumn and Springsales Pansies make a good splash of colour, and are thefavourites of many, many, people. Go round the garden centresand ask what they have available to add instant impact NOW... itis well worth the extra effort and expense to make it special. Houses are now beginning to stick with many which have been onthe market for many months, some for over a year... and manysprouting more than one estate agents board [which is always abad sign]. Anything you can do to make yours stand out needs tobe done. If you are one of the 'unlucky' whose home has been onthe market for a long period... consider the following points.Also remember that many people have no imagination whatsoever...if you have painted a room in purple [for example] they cannotpicture it as any other colour, if they don't like it, itappears an insurmountable problem... plus they have noinclination towards a little painting and decoration. The interior particulars, if just a written blurb, will not bemuch more than a list of room dimensions, and maybe a mention ofanything of special interest... for example a new fittedkitchen, range cooker, a mention of the heating system, andmaybe details of bathroom suite and tiling. If, on the other hand, pictures of the interior are to be taken,then steps to increase saleability MUST be taken immediately youconsider putting your property on the market... Clutter and features which are highly individual MUST GO! Buyers must be able to see space. They need to think about howall their possessions WILL fit easily into the rooms. Palecolours will make the rooms appear larger, but get the paintingdone early... you don't want the smell of paint lingering whenyou are about to show people around the property. Otherlingering smells which you don't notice, but which may beoff-putting to prospective purchasers are smoke... cigarette,cigar, or pipe; stale food smells; and pet odour. Think of the house as an item you are about to sell and make itappealing to buyers... it will no longer be YOUR home, so yourpersonality shouldn't be stamped on it... it needs to be a freshcanvas for someone else to paint upon! Get everything clean and tidy. Fresh flowers with a strong scentare a good touch! NOW you are ready to have either interior pictures taken, or toshow round prospective purchasers... If there are, horror of horrors, stains on your carpeting... thefollowing is some useful information on carpet cleaning andSTAINS. To obtain YOUR FULL FREE LIST go to Carpet Cleaners onthe Best UK electrical appliances website mentioned below... andfill out a request for your free copy at the bottom of the page. The first third of the list is reproduced below..... * * * Carpet cleaners... I have decided to make three separatealphabetical lists... each list will have the same pre-treatmentinstructions at the top, followed by the instructions for eachtype of stain. It would be a good idea to print it out andstaple the resultant pages together, keep in a folder with yourcarpet care emergency kit. The first carpet cleaners list will detail water based stainswhich require just the one method of cleaning - carpet shampoo. Another will detail greasy stains which require just one methodof cleaning - dry cleaning solvent, or methylated spirits. The third carpet cleaners list will detail - all those stainswhich require treatment by more than one cleaning method, or usea totally different method of cleaning. ******** ### Stain removal hints and tips. First, and most important,treat all stains as soon as they happen... the longer they areleft the more they can soak in, and become, in some cases,permanent. If it is a case of liquid material, mop up as much as possiblewith the kitchen towels and terry towelling in your 'carpet careemergency
kit'. Always work from the outside of the stain intowards the middle, that way you won't spread the stain to alarger area. If the stain material is solids... scrape up asmuch of the solid matter as possible and dispose of it, then usekitchen towels to mop any liquid deposit. Once you have carriedout these immediate steps it is a case of ascertaining how much,if any, stain persists... then treat the remaining stainaccording to the recommendations below. Don't add any liquid to the stain [unless specified in ourdetailed instructions, below]... it could spread it and send itdeeper into the pile or even get the back of the carpet wet.Where it is appropriate to clean with carpet shampoo only getyour cloth damp enough to get the carpet moist NOT wet. A time when you do use liquid is for fresh blood stains... thenuse COLD water only... and remember to start at the outside edgeof the stain and work towards the centre... keep changing to aclean cloth or kitchen towel as the one you are working withbecomes soiled. Keep blotting up excess water... don't get thecarpet too wet. The stain will need to be dried out to see how well it has comeout... do this by putting a pile of kitchen towels on it withsome heavy weights... try 'phone books and yellow pages,etcetera, and add extra weight to these by placing extra bookson top of them. This will bring the damp out. If the stain hasall but gone, maybe a general shampooing of the whole carpetwill restore it to its former glory. But if once you have completed these basic steps, if morecleaning is required REMEMBER... ALWAYS try all other steps outin an out-of-sight area of the carpet first. If there appears tobe a problem with 'colour fade' or other distortions of thecarpet pile or colour... CALL IN THE EXPERTS for this particularjob. Another tip... when you first buy and have fitted a newcarpet... ALWAYS make a note of the constituents of the carpet.Wool, cotton, and artificial fibres will react differently tosome cleaning fluids. Keep these notes with your cleaning kit...they could be helpful to both you, and any professional cleanersyou may call in during the life of your carpet. If you are not so lucky, it could be that it will be necessaryto call in professional carpet cleaners... remember they willneed to know exactly what caused the stain in the first place.The more information you can supply the better... and also thesooner they are called in the better! Just one last mention... don't try to dry the carpetartificially... you could cause scorch marks, or, especially ifthe carpet is synthetic or part synthetic, ruin the pileentirely. Just follow the instructions as above and keep thewhole area well aired... other than that all you can do is hopefor the best. List One... Water based stains requiring carpet shampootreatment * Animal stains... remove excess as in - ### above -blot dry. Then treat with carpet shampoo. [If the stain haspenetrated to the back of the carpet you could well need to callin professional carpet cleaners.] * Beer & Lager... removeexcess as in - ### above - blot dry. Treat with carpet shampoo.* Blood... treat as - ### above. Then use carpet shampoo. * Felttip pens, water based... treat as - ### above - followed bycarpet shampoo. * Fruit juices... treat as - ### above - thenfollow with carpet shampoo. * Metal polish... treat as - ###above - then clean with carpet shampoo to which a littlehousehold ammonia has been added [N.B. Please read theprecautions stated, the fumes are dreadful!] * Mud/gardensoil... First, and most important... let it dry. Then brush.Then vacuum. After this you MAY need to use carpet shampoo. *Mustard [ready made]... treat as - ### above - then shampoo. *Perfume... treat as - ### above - then use carpet shampoo. *Toothpaste... treat as - ### above - then shampoo. * Treacle andgolden syrup... treat as - ### above - then shampoo your carpet.* Wine... treat as in - ### above - then shampoo. It is possibleto obtain a special wine clean up liquid from Betterware... youcan use it on carpets and table linen. A valuable addition toyour 'carpet care emergency kit'. The information on 'stains' is taken fromhttp://www.best-uk-electrical-appliances.com where you can finddetails of best appliances, best prices, and best suppliers...and so MUCH more! You will be able to kit out your new home withbest buys... from breadmakers to washing machines, from carpetcleaner to cooker or mp3! About the Author Owner and creator of Best UK electricalappliances where you will find the remainder of the info onstains on the 'Cleaning' page, please don't miss our essentialIdentity Theft information. Also creator ofwww.TheWorldsBestFlowers.com... which covers any subject, aslong as it's about flowers! About the author:None
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