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Tips for Selling Your Home During The Holidays

With Thanksgiving just a few days away, one of the busiest times of year is getting under way… the holiday season! Selling a home during the holiday season can be tough, and there are advantages and disadvantages to both leaving your home on the market & pulling it off and relisting in January. You might want to keep your house on the market because buyers who look for a home during the holidays are serious buyers looking for a home during a time when there are less homes on the market than after the new year. Additionally, many buyers want to close the deal before the end of the year for the tax advantages. However, you might want to pull your home off the market if you love to go overboard with the holiday decorations, have lots of company during the holidays, or want the advantages of relisting your home in January to generate new traffic during a home-shopping period that it usually busier than the holiday season. What is best for your home depends on your neighborhood, home, family schedule, and your agent’s advice.

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5 Easy Dishes For Your Holiday Party

If you’re going to or hosting a holiday party this weekend, chances are you’re looking a dish you can bring that will be impressive, yet quick and easy to put together. Here are five great options:

1. Christmas Tree Veggie Tray

2. Festive Cheese Tray (with olives & pickles!)

3. Snowman Fruit Salad (in hollowed out melons)

4. Strawberry Santa Hats (place strawberry on top of a thin mint or vanilla wafer and top with whipped cream)

5. Reindeer Cookies (bake your favorite recipe and decorate with a single red m&m, broken pretzel pieces & drops of decorative icing)

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Tips for Coping With Holiday Stress

The holidays are a stressful time of year for many people. There are many things you can do to help make the stress of the season more bearable.

The holidays are a stressful time of year for many people. There are many things you can do to help make the stress of the season more bearable. First, realize that it is okay to feel sad, depressed, stressed or anything other than the happy person that people expect. Next, be realistic – know that situations change and with them traditions and rituals change as well. Change isn’t always easy, but creating new traditions when its time will help ease any stress you feel. Perhaps the most effective way to relive holiday stress is to learn to say no when you need to. Saying yes to every get together, work assignment, and friend while leaving no time for yourself and your family is the number one way to burn-out during this festive season. By limiting yourself to only what is absolutely necessary and/or most important to you, you will limit the amount of stress you allow into your life which makes it easier to spend a few minutes on yourself. Making time for yourself during the next couple of hectic weeks is important for your mental health. Even if you just spend 15 minutes alone to take a quick walk, read a magazine, or listen to music, spending time alone and clearing your mind can reduce stress and help you stay calm as things heat up. Finally, recognize that along with being stressful, the holidays can be a sad, lonely, and depressing time for many people so don’t hesitate to reach out to your friends, family, community, or support groups if you need to and by all means, seek professional help if you need it. The holidays should be a time filled with joy and not stress!

Five Tips for Selling Your Home During the Holidays

If your home is on the market during the holiday season consider these tips for taking advantage of the opportunities you have:

1. Price to sell. Just like always, if your home is priced right it will get the attention that it deserves.

2. Pay attention to curb appeal. Again, this is a year-round tip, but at this time of year in particular be sure that leaves a raked, stairs and walkways are kept free of ice and snow, and gutters are cleaned.

3. Decorate reasonably. If you decorate during the holidays be sure not to go overboard. Keep things scaled to your home and decorate to emphasize your home’s best features, not cover or detract from them. If you want to avoid offending potential buyers it is best to decorate with general winter themes rather than religious items.

4. Focus on motivated buyers. People who house hunt during the holidays are generally motivated buyers. Work with your agent to target buyers who are on a deadline and looking to buy before the end of the year.

5. Hire a trusted agent. At this time of year in particular it is important to have a real estate agent who is reliable and not someone who will disappear during the holidays. Some who will go above and beyond to work for you will help get your home sold.

Looking to buy or sell a home in Sussex County? Give us a call at Cooper Realty Associates and put us to work for you – 302-856-6434.

Tips for Selling During the Holiday Season

Looking to buy or sell a home in Sussex County? Give us a call at Cooper Realty Associates and put us to work for you – 302-629-6693.