Brainerd, MN

Statistics say that the best chance for selling your property is within the first seven weeks? Experience has shown that this is true. These studies show that the longer a property stays on the market, the less the seller will net upon the sale. It is so very important to price your property at a competitive market value at the signing of your listing contract.

Our present market is so competitive that even over-pricing by a few thousand dollars could mean that your house will not sell.

An Overpriced Home:

• Minimizes offers
• Lowers agents' response
• Limits qualified buyers
• Lowers showings
• Lowers prospects
• Limits financing
• Wastes advertising dollars
• Nets less for the seller

When you are ready to list, contact me for honest advice on how to get top dollar for your home! A home that shows well and is priced to sell – will sell!

The big question is: Do you want to sell or stay??

Is the market price less than what you owe ? We need to have an honest conversation on Short Sales and other options. Do not walk away - there is hope there is help!

Kathleen Lordbock

REALTOR/Short Sale & Staging Specialist

Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes

218-831-8001

resaledesign@gmail.com

photos by Flickr

In reading a blog on the net , I came across the idea of the 50% Space to Stuff Ratio This was new to me but may be old stuff to some of you.

The concept is that you are to evaluate the floor space in your home. If it is almost completely covered, there is no room left for new opportunities to come in. Reduce what is on it by 50% and there will be room for movement and the ability to change out what you want for now and for the future. When you have an open house and there are a lot of people in the room - they need to be able to get around.

Then when you bring in something new, something old goes away - far away- permanently.

This will help considerably with your organizing, as there will be less to organize. Once your home is ready to be sold, you will not have all your stuff to deal with. What is left is what you really want to keep and/or need.

This may help in explaining things to clients about how much to remove before staging.

Once again, it is 50% available space to how much stuff is in that space, for some you may need to give a 75% figure. Men probably like this numbers concept better than most women, we go more by how it looks.

Here in the Brainerd Lakes of Minnesota, 2 special corn fields have been silently growing and planning for the Fall. Soon these innocent looking fields will be sculpted and designed into twisty labyrinths for the sole purpose of making you walk in circles. You can spend an afternoon winding your way through the towering stalks and the evening on a hayride drinking cider. There are special days for families with small children and appropriate age crafts. Several nights will be for those who like a little excitement with their confusion. Scary creatures will inhabit the maze ready to make it a screaming adventure.

"Our labyrinth of twists, turns, and dead ends, carved into a 14 foot high cornfield, offers an experience that is perfect for those searching for adventure.

Near Halloween, what was a dark, quiet, gentle maze becomes a field of screams, with ghosts and goblins added for your late night spooking pleasure!"

Support local farms in your area and enjoy our Autumn Season. To learn more about corn mazes visit Corn Maze Directory.

Beautiful Farm & Lake Properties for sale ..........

On my drive up from Minneapolis/ St Paul (Twin Cities) in Minnesota I was driving by Farm Properties like this everywhere. Word has it nothing is selling because once again the Banks don't want to finance anyone interested i purchasing these properties.

If the Banks are not financing people to purchase properties in Northern Minnesota and they go back to the Bank creating a for-closer, what good is this for our economy?

This photograph (above) is just one of hundreds of thousands of Lake properties in Northern Minnesota that will go back to the Bank foreclosed.

Once again all I can say is (Shame on the Banks)!

And this is one of the main reasons I would never use a Bank to purchase property, I would pay cash or go with owner financed!

Here is a photograph of the view from the Lake home (above) and to think it will be going back to the bank makes me sick to my stomach!

All photographs taken by Robert Swetz in Northern Minnesota 9-26-2009

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