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Now that we have talked about how you should make your house a little greener whenever you are looking to sell it, let’s now talk about how you can make it greener.  First and foremost, the floors … if the house has hardwood floors should be switched over to bamboo flooring.  What you might not know about bamboo flooring but it is actually extremely durable and totally better for the environment overall!

The next step should be …if you can afford it to add in solar panels to you can gain energy that way.  Solar panels, if you are looking to sell the house is a fantastic selling point and you can actually add the price onto the total cost of the home as most people will appreciate the fact that their house has solar panels.

Switching out some of the appliances to energy saving appliances is also a fantastic idea as well as switching out all of the light bulbs.  These are just a few ideas that will absolutely make your house greener and more appealing to the latest generation of environmentalists!

It is pretty obvious that in this day and age, you really need to be aware of the environment and this is especially true if you are looking to make a house that you are trying to sell a little bit greener.  Honestly, there are a lot of different things that you can do that can make the house extremely appealing to those couples that are looking for a ‘green’ home versus just a normal home.

For one, need to do some research.  Researching different ways that you can be eco-friendly is a great start and definitely something that everyone should do who is in the real estate business … or who is trying to get into the real estate business for themselves.  The next thing you need to consider is not going to be good …

Cost …. The cost to make a home eco-friendly is very high but you know what?  Add that onto the price of the home and you will absolutely have a better chance at selling the home!  In the next blog I will go over some of the ways that you can make the house extremely eco-friendly and great looking!

While you may be considering renting your home out instead of selling it, you probably have no idea how to get started.  First and foremost, you need to make sure that you get yourself a contract together.  This should be a tenant-friend contract, as you do not want to scare them off, but you definitely want to make sure that you are protecting yourself as well as protecting the home.

The contract should be pretty standard and once everything you have to say on it is done, you should definitely take it to a lawyer and absolutely have it looked at.  That way, everything is going to be legal and you can make sure that your butt is covered!

After that is done – then you move onto the actual renting of your house out and we will explore that a little bit more in detail in the next set of blogs!

Face it; there are a ton of homes out there right now that are being foreclosed on and honestly it is extremely hard to sell any houses right now.  Or, on the flip side, if you do sell it – you really are not going to be making any sort of profit off of it due to the fact that you have had to lower the cost at least five times before it finally sold right? 

Have you ever considered, instead of selling your home renting it out?  To be quite frank, in this day and age, people are looking at renting a property versus just buying it so you should have absolutely no problems getting some new tenants in there in absolutely no time! 

First and foremost though, you definitely need to make sure that you know exactly what you are doing whenever you are attempting to rent your home.  That is what we are going to explore!  So stay tuned guys!