On the Market

Home Staging: Sell Your Home Faster and For More Money

In Golden Valley, your home is one of many lovely and well-kept properties. A little home staging will take your home to the next level and help it sell faster.

Every week, we invite local real estate agents to give insight on the housing market in Golden Valley, ways to increase the value of your home or ideas for easy home improvements that have a nice return on investment.  If you're a local realtor and would like to contribute to Golden Valley Patch, just email our editor. This week's column comes from Golden Valley realtor Carla Anderson.  You can find her contact information at the bottom of the article. In Golden Valley, people take pride in their homes and their yards.  It's hard to find a yard that's not neat and tidy or a home in need of major work outside or in. Before you put the "for sale" sign out front, remember that it's important for your home to live up the high standards created…

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Golden Valley Spring Cleaning Challenge: Create Curb Appeal

Now that we've shown you how to get a sparkling inside, our third and final article takes you outside.

  Editor's Note: As we've made our way through the tail end of what feels like the longest winter ever, we started to hear from local businesses and organizations with advice for spring cleaning.  Not only is this a perfect way to rid of the lingering winter blahs and organize your home and yard, but we're hoping it'll help organize your mind a bit. This month we're giving you some advice and a plethora of Golden Valley resources to give your home a facelift.  Our domestic goddess, Kathleen Riley-Daniels, started with the first step of decluttering.  Last week she moved on to the next step: Elbow Grease.  Today we're heading outside to create some curb appeal. Spring is a great time to improve your curb appeal – even if you aren’t planning…

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Curb Appeal... With This Weather? You Bet.

It doesn't take much to make your Golden Valley home stand out proudly among the snow and mud.

Every week, we invite local real estate agents to give insight on the housing market in Golden Valley, ways to increase the value of your home or ideas for easy home improvements that have a nice return on investment.  If you're a local realtor and would like to contribute to Golden Valley Patch, just email our editor. This week's column comes from realtors Heather Winsand and Jennifer Strangis, both of Edina Realty. Driving down Golden Valley Road is usually a lovely thing as you take in Theodore Wirth Park, with its snowy hills in the winter and fields of green in the summer.  But during this time of transition, even our most beautiful sights are looking drab. Whether you're selling your home or you're just tired of the outside of your …

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