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Winter makes for tough weather weather and even tougher home sales.

Selling your home is stressful to begin with.  But doing so during the winter, when grass is dead, the leaves from the trees have fallen, and the natural beauty of the lot your home is on has faded for the year makes it that much harder. It’s simply not as appealing to purchase a home when the weather is bad—it can be hard for people to visualize the true beauty of a home when it’s cold and snowy outside. So what are some things you can do to help the sale of your home go a little bit quicker—or, if you so choose, what you can do to protect the house until the weather is a little more palatable.

 

Tips for Selling

Perhaps the most helpful tip for selling your home when it’s cold, snowy, and icy, is to make the interior warm and the exterior clean. In other words, make the home easy to get to. Thoroughly shovel walkways and keep the home at a comfortable temperature. Making the home look like it is being maintained is helpful for selling. It’s also helpful to wash the windows of any salt or weather residue and try to schedule showings when its bright and sunny out so showcase the natural light. Making sure the home is comfortably staged helps, also, especially if you are not going to be there. Make the house look like a home, but not too personalized.  Take the holidays into account and decorate with some neutral decorations – lights, for example, are always alluring and festive.

 

How to Protect a Vacant Home

If you’d rather wait until the springtime to sell your property, but you need to relocate before then, it’s important to protect the property while no one is living in it. Unprotected property, especially when the weather is cold, is practically a written invitation for people to attempt to break in. Vandalism, theft, and other damage are serious issues when it comes to vacant homes, and if you aren’t living in your home, you should take steps to make it look lived in or otherwise secured.  As with the sale of a home, make sure the walkways are kept up with, and perhaps even consider light and sound timers within the home to give it a lived-in appearance. Better still, however, is installing metal window guards and door guards, which effectively prevent people from entering the home in the first place. Don’t let vandals and thieves or squatters stay in your home or cause damage—it’ll only be a headache when you come back and need to sell house.

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