5 Tips to Prepare Your Home for Market

Although the weather doesn’t indicate that it’s springtime, the busy spring real estate market is here!  We have tons of buyers searching for their new home but we need more houses to sell.  Here are some great tips to get your home ready so that it sells quickly once it is listed.

5 Patio Design Ideas for this Spring

When springtime comes around it brings with it the sort of weather that makes you want to sit outside and enjoy the long, warm nights. Homeowners can make this experience even better and perhaps improve the value of their homes, by upgrading their patios.. Patios are a great selling point for homeowners who hope to…

To Love or List Your Home……

Berkshire Hathaway HomeService’s recently launched the “Love Your Home $50,000 Sweepstakes”, which is sponsored by HGTV’s popular TV show, Love It or List It. As the title of the show suggests, you have two options when your house no longer feels like home: renovate it into a space you can love, or list it for…

Steps to a Flawless Open House

Hosting an open house is your opportunity to show off your home’s potential to the public and lock in that interested buyer. Rather than a traditional home showing, open houses provide you time and flexibility to transform your normally lived-in home into a welcoming, jaw-dropping oasis. Most buyers schedule multiple open houses in one day…

Guide to Unpacking Your New Home

Moving day has FINALLY arrived, the truck it loaded and now you are headed over to your new home. As the truck is being unloaded and all you see are brown boxes and unplaced furniture, you instantly become overwhelmed with how to tackle all of your unpacking. Should you unpack everything all at once? Work…

Last Minute Moving Tasks

It is the eve of your big moving day. As you lay awake in your bed excited yet stressed, you can’t help but rack your brain to make sure you haven’t forgotten anything. Well, fear not, because we have a surprise for you! We created a list of items and tasks for you to complete…

Are You Thinking About Downsizing?

Wondering If It’s Time To Downsize? Take These Questions Into Consideration First. Whether your children are going off to college, your utility payments, mortgage, and upkeep have become unmanageable, or you want to boost your nest egg, there are countless of reasons to consider trading square footage in for a cozier living space. But before…

Planning Your Curb Appeal Projects

The spring buying season is underway, and as it progresses curb appeal will emerge from its winter hibernation as a significant factor in luring potential buyers to their ideal property. Curb appeal is often what draws buyers to a particular home. An alluring walkway, an array of colorful flowers, an inviting nighttime glow and other…

Why Now Is The Perfect Time To Sell Your House

2016 could be your last chance to list your home in the booming seller’s market, so if you’ve been toying with the idea of selling, now is the time. The projections for this year largely remain in favor to do so. In 2016 sellers can look forward to increasing home prices, low inventory, and intense…

Spring Cleaning Tips

Spring is almost here! It’s time to open the windows in your home, clear out the stagnant winter air, and breathe in the refreshing new season. Unfortunately with the excitement of warmer weather, so comes the daunting and tedious task of spring cleaning. Luckily, we have compiled a list of tips to take the edge off…

Things to Do in Harrisburg

  Harrisburg-Hershey Area Wine Trail Pennsylvania is making a name for itself in the world of winemaking. The region’s varied climate, well-drained soil, and diverse landscapes are creating the perfect environment to produce exceptional wine. With over twelve wine trails in the state, the Susquehanna region’s Harrisburg-Hershey wine trail is at the top of the…

5 Tips For New Homeowners

You just finished signing the last of the papers at closing, and have OFFICIALLY jumped from a renter to a first-time homeowner! The days of signing a lease, asking permission to paint a wall, hammer in a few nails, or ever having to answer to a landlord again are now behind you. Give yourself a pat…