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Renovating: How to Stay on Budget
When looking at Bakersfield homes for sale, you might consider getting a fixer-upper. Buying a house that needs a little work, then hiring a contractor to make the necessary renovations can save money and raise your home's value. However, if you're not careful, those renovation costs can balloon well past your budget. Here are some tips to help you keep them from getting out of hand.
- Make a Plan. "Fixing the house up" is a vague idea. Before talking to contractors, determine how much work you want done, what kind, and where. Having a plan and sticking to it will help you stay on budget.
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Have You Cleaned These 5 Things Lately?
If your weekly cleaning schedule includes a lot of scrubbing, polishing, and vacuuming, you may be surprised that there are other areas in your home you neglect. These overlooked areas get dirtier with time as they accumulate dust, pet dander, and even mold. Thankfully, our agents have listed five things that homeowners neglect the most.
- Throw Pillows
Throw pillows decorate beds and couches, add comfort, and even help to make living room forts. However, they also accumulate a lot of dirt, especially if you place snacks on them during movie nights.
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2022 Selling Tips to Get Your Home Ready
Home prices reached record highs in 2021 due to a shortage of homes and historically low mortgage rates. Listing a house in a seller's market is an exciting time as you will likely receive many offers that drive up the sales price. Our agents have compiled the best tips to get your home ready for the 2022 real estate market.
- List Your Home Early
Real estate experts predict a year of rising home prices in 2022. Many buyers want to lock in the record-low mortgage interest rates as soon as possible, and you can expect a lot of buyer activity well into the year. If you're considering selling, you can list your home as early as the second week of January 2022. Also, there's a chance that mortgage rates may increase, which is more reason to sell as early as possible.
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Owners: How Secure Is Your Home?
It's midnight when you hear the noise outside. But, whether it's the wind or an intruder, the last thing you want to wonder is how secure your home is against a potential threat. Without exception, our agents know how important home security is to our clients. Even in the safest neighborhoods, more security is always the best protection.
- Create a Castle
One thing all criminals have in common is speed. Their goal is rapid entry and exit. The harder you can make it to enter and exit the property, the longer it will take and the less likely they will target your home. Creating layers of structural deterrents is the best way to deter a break-in. Effective changes you can make to the landscaping and exterior of your home include:
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Creative Ways to Add Storage in the Living Room
From first-time buyers to empty nesters scaling down, many new homeowners are faced with the same frustrating challenge: where to store all of this stuff! Our agents have a few suggestions to help maximize the space and keep clutter at bay.
- Versatile bookshelves
Some of our Bakersfield homes for sale may already have built-in bookshelves, but even if they don't, free-standing bookcases are a great way to store a lot more than books. They can serve double duty by offering space for plants and knick-knacks. If you want built-in shelves, but your budget won't support such an extensive project, consider creating a mock version by adding decorative molding. With a little bit of paint and a few hours of work, your shelving will look like the elegant architectural feature you wanted. You can put small bookcases on top of refurbished cabinets painted to match to add a place to stash items not meant for display. It's always a good idea to anchor the shelves to the wall so they don't tip with excessive weight.