Warning: 10 mistakes when selling your home

Everything that I am about to say in this post comes from my own personal experiences as a realtor over the last eight years. I am not HGTV or Jeff Lewis of Interior Therapy but I am certain these are important things you should know when selling your home. Proper pricing is the number one factor which affects home sales in the market currently and after that everything else on my list comes as a close second, in no particular order.

Mistake #1: Truly believing that your home is the best one in the neighborhood. Once you have adopted this mentality you are in a dangerous place. Every home has its pros and cons, and there are trade offs at every price point. If you begin with an attitude of humility toward the sales process and toward your home, then your experience will be much more successful and healthy for you, your family and your eventual buyers.

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How to simplify and beautify your everyday life – 5 ways

I am a person of convenience, I truly am. I like for things to be organized and to run smoothly but more than that I just don’t like spending more time or energy on anything than I absolutely have to. Perfect example, I gave Charlie some Ritz crackers this morning for breakfast because I was too lazy to run out and buy dog food. Anyway, below are five easy ways to simplify, organize and subtly beautify your day. I guarantee that if you do these things for a week solid you will feel lighter all over.

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What is Hannah Parker Home Styling?

Good use of a bold rug

Hannah Parker Home Styling has been in the works for several years as I have been organizing, staging homes for sale and offering my design thoughts and ideas to friends, sometimes unsolicited. 🙂  Witnessing the moment when excitement, deep relief or a  sense of rest washes over another person after seeing their transformed space is so energizing for me. I want to help people make their home’s story a better reflection of who they really are and in turn will be telling my own story.

-HP

 

My style traits & influences

I love the city, have a great affection for anything organized, love Americanos, fresh flowers, would always rather be wearing one less piece of jewelry, love news on my iPhone but will never give up savoring the pages of design magazines, believe deeply in the handwritten note, promise that one day I’ll be a great cook, secretly love wandering through Scott’s Antiques alone, delight in the photographs of Bill Cunningham, swear by cutting ones wardrobe in half, fall in love with NYC every time I visit and consider my father’s artistic eye my best inherited trait.

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