89% of Buyers Will Use The Internet To Find Their Next Home

BALTIMORE - Aug. 20, 2013 - PRLog -- Do I Need A Mint?  Helene Kelbaugh of Keller Williams Realty Baltimorewww.HeleneSellsHomes.com443-463-8443m 410-324-4444oService with a smile!
 


Remember getting ready for your first date?  You had the perfect outfit, every hair in place, well manicured and ready make to make an outstanding first impression right? Even friends came over and put in their .02 cents.
Helene Kelbaugh, of Keller Williams Realty in Baltimore says "This is the same excitement and enthusiasm you must have for preparing your home for sale."  

IMSD research shows that 89% of buyers will use the internet to find their next home. Online photos are the first "date" or  impression a potential buyer will have of a sellers home.  Helene is an IMSD, Internet Marketing Specialist (http://www.imsd.net/grad/helenekelbaugh) of Marketing Homes Online.  Helene specializes and uses her expertise to market a seller's home online for maxium effect and exposure, to quickly produce a contract.

Helene is quoted as saying "Online photos of the sellers home must look amazing to get the interest of the most potential buyers to move beyond the computer screen and actually making an appointment."  A wide angle shot maximizes the size of the rooms in the home.  Great lighting emphasizes asthetic characteristics.  Staging the home is a very helpful visual as it gives the potential buyer an idea of what furniture will fit in the roooms or if new furniture will be needed.  Great curb appeal will make a sellers home inviting.  Helene kids "You wouldn't want to go on a date with a ungroomed, poorly dressed person would you?" 

Helene advises sellers not to let all of the work and time invested in the home to make it ready for sale, be for nothing.  Make sure the home smells fresh.  There could be several reasons for the odor in the home for sale (http://www.helenesellshomes.com/sell/).  Pets, in house smoking, or a house repair that needs to be addressed are a few.  Once the odor has been addressed, be sure that the odor doesn't still exist in the home.  For example carpet, walls, furniture can absorb and retain odor that has been in the home for a long period of time.  

Helene encourages sellers to make the house smells great!  Some of the most inviting smells are fresh baked cookies and apple pie. Helene recommends the easiest way to make the home for sale (http://www.helenesellshomes.com/sell/) smell like fresh baked cookies or apple pie is to make a visit to Yankee Candle.  In Helene's Opinion, Yankee Candle has by far the best smelling candles and they last a very long time.  If you are not comfortable with burning Candles, you can use reed diffusers, wall plug-ins, potpurri and other fragrant alternatives.  Don't just cover up the odor!  A home that smells like floral scented pets or floral scented smoke won't work either.

By visiting BaltimoreHouseValues.info (http://activerain.com/blogsview/3807296/BaltimoreHouseVal...), the website will allow you to get an estimate value (http://activerain.com/blogsview/3807296/baltimorehousevalues.info) of your home.  Helene recommends making an appointment with a local REALTOR in Baltimore (http://www.helenesellshomes.com/contact).  A REALTOR can provide a professional opinion of your home.  A home in good working order and clean can be the best home for a potential buyer!  

It's good idea to register (http://www.helenesellshomes.com/) and take advantage of listing alerts.  Listing alerts are sent regularly to your email address.  You can customize the listings that are sent to see what your competition is in your neighborhood.

Contacting an agent (http://www.helenesellshomes.com/contact) experienced in Selling Homes in Baltimore is the next step.


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Keller Williams Realty Baltimore

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Baltimore, MD  21224

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