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You face a tough task if you need to sell your home in this market. The real estate market is cold. Money is tight, buyers are few and there are plenty of homes on the market. Here are some cheap steps you can take that could be the key to selling your property.

The sense of smell is an important one. If someone in the home smokes, you need to deal with the odor. Wash the walls with an ammonia based cleaner. Make sure to replace the filter in the heating and air conditioning systems as well.

Sellers are taught to inspect faucets. Leaks are a sign of a home not maintained properly. Fortunately, fixing them is simple. Buy new washers from the local home improvement store and redo all the faucets in your home.

Certain parts of a home tell a potential buyer all they need to know about how you took care of the home while living there. The baseboards are one such area. Make sure yours are in perfect shape with no dings, scratches or marks.

Walls are a flat single color surface. This makes them a natural target and they get beat up over the years. If yours are dinged up, fix them. Cracks should be repaired. Make sure the paint blends naturally with the rest of the wall.

It always amazes me when people spend big dollars on beautiful doors and windows, but then go cheap on screens. Screens are cheap and easy to replace. If yours are beaten up, bent, have holes or rusty, change them out.

First impressions count. Give your front door the evil eye to see if it measures up. If it is a bit plain, consider painting it. If you are going to spend some money, a new front door is the place to do it.

There is one repair you can make that costs practically nothing. Landscaping. Trim back the jungle. Do some weeding. Consider buying some new plants. If you have a dull area of the yard or home, spruce them up with landscaping.

There are certain parts of your home that are out of sight, out of mind. Your roof is one. Nothing screens run away to a buyer like a roof with problems. Inspect yours and have all broken shingles and so on repaired.

A cold real estate market is not a frozen one. By this, I mean that homes are being bought and sold each day. You can be successful at selling your home. Follow these suggestions and you’ll be on your way.