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An Inside Look at the Life of a Hoarder

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TNTS Hoarding Services - 1.877.273.7810 This is a great read. A life of a hoarder.

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WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?

Africa

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How Much Is Your Home Worth?

From experience, TNTS know that a well-polished house appeals to more buyers and will sell faster and for a higher price.  Additionally, buyers feel more comfortable that the home that they could potentially purchase has been well maintained by the previous owner.  Giving that wow factor to a buyer when stepping in the house can potentially turn that customer to a buyer.  When considering selling your home, there are some few things that a seller would need to consider:

How much is going in the property

What home repair is going to help raise home value

How to go about preparing the interior

How much is going in the property:

In preparing your home for the market, a seller will need to fully inspect their home in order to get a sense of what is needed.  A good idea is to get your home inspected.  Getting a professional to come in to see the house can help to reveal certain things about your home that you may not have known.  From there, you will be able to get a sense of how much will need to go in the property before placing it on the market.   Another step a seller can take to get a sense of what their home is worth is to get in touch with a property transitional company.   These companies offer an insight on what needs to be done to get the house ready.

What repairs are going to help raise home value:

Before placing your home on the market, thoroughly check your home on ways to maximize its exterior and interior appeal.  Certain home updates can provide a huge return on investment.  Here are some few areas to look into:

Inspect the doors and windows for any cracks or peeling paint

Check the stair steps, walkways, foundation, walls and any cracks

Clean out the chimney

Inspect the roof for any loose or damage shingles

Re-seal driveway

Make sure the garage door is functional

Kitchen cabinets and knobs are updated

Any peel paint inside the home

Bathroom is updated

Gutter clean up

Landscaping

These are some of the few updates that could help get your house market ready.  For more information on how to get your home ready for the market, please call 1-877-273-7810.

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How Much Is Your Home Worth?

How Much Is Your Home Worth?

From experience, TNTS know that a well-polished house appeals to more buyers and will sell faster and for a higher price.  Additionally, buyers feel more comfortable that the home that they could potentially purchase has been well maintained by the previous owner.  Giving that wow factor to a buyer when stepping in the house can potentially turn that customer to a buyer.  When considering…

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Great read.

MEET MERLIN! This little guy was just one of approximately 200 parakeets removed from a hoarding situation yesterday. The Ohio SPCA believes that even the tiniest creature needs a voice. Our hearts weeped as many sick and dead birds were discovered. Animal hoarding is horrific and results in great sadness and suffering. Although, the Ohio SPCA is volunteer-staffed, large-scale removals are costly due to supplies, equipment, fuel, and vet care. For our life-saving outreach to continue, your support is needed. Please consider being a part of our efforts through a tax-deductible donation.  DONATE: www.ohiospca.org Paypal: ohiospca@frontier.com Ohio SPCA, P.O. Box 546, Grove City, Ohio 43123

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How to Divide Expenses between the Rental use and the Personal use concerning Vacation Property

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If you use a dwelling unit for both rental and personal purposes, you will need to divide your expenses between the rental use and the personal use based on the number of days used for each purpose.

Rules for Dividing Expenses:

Any day that the unit is rented at a fair rental price is a day of rental use even if you used the unit for personal purposes that day. (This rule does not apply when determining whether you used the unit as a home.)

Any day that the unit is available for rent but not actually rented is not a day of rental use.

Fair rental price: A fair rental price for your property generally is the amount of rent that a person who is not related to you would be willing to pay. The rent you charge is not a fair rental price if it is substantially less than the rents charged for other properties that are similar to your property in your area.

Ask yourself the following questions when comparing another property with yours.

Is it used for the same purpose?

Is it approximately the same size?

Is it in approximately the same condition?

Does it have similar furnishings?

Is it in a similar location?

If any of the answers are no, the properties probably are not similar.

Example:

Your mountain cabin was available for rent from June 1 through August 31 (92 days). Except for the first week in August (7 days), when you were unable to find a renter, you rented the cabin at a fair rental price during that time. The person who rented the cabin for July allowed you to use it over the weekend (2 days) without any reduction in or refund of rent. Your family also used the cottage during the last 2 weeks of May (14 days). The cottage was not used at all before May 17 or after August 31.

You figure the part of the cabin expenses to treat as rental expenses as follows.

The cabin was used for rental a total of 85 days (92 − 7). The days it was available for rent but not rented (7 days) are not days of rental use. The July weekend (2 days) you used it is rental use because you received a fair rental price for the weekend.

You used the cabin for personal purposes for 14 days (the last 2 weeks in May).

The total use of the cabin was 99 days (14 days personal use + 85 days rental use).

Your rental expenses are 85/99 (86%) of the cabin expenses.

Note:

When determining whether you used the cabin as a home, the July weekend (2 days) you used it is considered personal use even though you received a fair rental price for the weekend. Therefore, you had 16 days of personal use and 83 days of rental use for this purpose. Because you used the cabin for personal purposes more than 14 days and more than 10% of the days of rental use (8 days), you used it as a home. If you have a net loss, you may not be able to deduct all of the rental expenses.

For more information, Please call 1-877-273-7810

Credit: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p527/ch05.html

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What Updates Do You Think Can Help Raise Your Home Value?

Which room in your home would helps to increase your home value?

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For Sale By Owner

For Sale By Owner?

Thinking of going on the market to sell your home on your own?  Not using an agent can help you save tens of thousands of dollars in commission fees.  But, some people like using a real estate broker. There are many factors to be considered when deciding to use an agent or do it yourself. Here are a few:

Selling your home takes a lot of work

There are some few things that a seller will need to research prior to selling their home

You will need some patience

When it comes to selling a home on your own for the first time, a good game plan will need to be created.

House cleaning: Once you decide to put your home on the market, a major cleaning plan will need to be put in place.  Certain places that you usually don’t look at will need to be cleaned such as roof gutters, blinds, window wells, baseboards, basements, and attics.  An appraiser will thoroughly look into every corner of your home.  By having a house that is clean, it will help them view your home better and apply a higher value to it. It will also make it more cosmetically appealing to a potential buyer.

Clean out your home: As soon as you decide to sell your house it needs to be clutter free. Clean out attics and basements of things that are no longer needed. A clean home will help an appraiser see your house in a better light and value it more highly, as well as appealing to buyers.

Here are some few tips:

Since you are familiar with your home, most likely you will overlook at some areas that you don’t usually clean.  First impression is very important.  A buyer may see those areas and could make a negative decision on buying your house.  You will need to be able to clean all cracks and crevices in the house to avoid any scrutiny from a potential buyer.

To have the house thoroughly cleaned, hire a professional cleaning service that can tackle everything that your house will need.  Don’t let a simple cleaning job cost you an opportunity on selling your home.

Clear out any clutter and organize everything that you can spot.  Allow a buyer to see the space that the house offers.  Buyers want to feel like they are going to be buying sufficient space.  Removing any clutter will also help a buyer to see themselves in your home.

Helpful Tips:

Have your property evaluate: Know what your home is worth.  As much as we would like to think that we know the value of our home, we have to be realistic.  Many of the for-sale-by-owner listings do not succeed in selling their home because owners believe their home is worth a lot more than what the market stated.  Hiring a professional appraiser can help you understand the true value of your home.

Don’t rely on property tax assessment. Sometimes, the property tax assessment may be out of date.

Look at homes in your neighborhood that is comparable to yours. What are they selling for? Are they similar to your home? Using that data, you can make a fairly good assumption on the price range that your home should be place in.

Hire a professional certified appraiser that can assess your home value.  Hiring an appraiser is far cheaper than hiring a real estate agent.

One of the most important suggestions would be to get your home in move-in condition before placing it on the market.  Buyers of homes are not going to want to take up a huge home improvement project once they buy a property.  Any work needed that can be detected may prompt the buyer back out of purchasing the home.  Get a handyman or a certified general contractor to get your home in market ready condition.Covering all your tracks will help prevent any unforeseen issues that may come up in the process of selling your home.  Doing your due diligence will help you save a lot of time and money.

Top Notch Transitional Services offers a package for $2249 that includes eight hours of cleaning, and decluttering, to make your home market-ready. Give us a call at 1-877-273-7810 to learn more about our services.

Inspect your home:  As a rule of thumb, try to get your home inspected ahead of time before placing any ads that it is for sale.  Getting your home inspected may lead to you making some updates but it’s a lot better to know what the true condition of your home is.  Not knowing its flaws can lead to the buyer depreciating your home value and not getting what the home is actually worth.

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Top Notch Transitional Services - 1-877-273-7810

Since 2010, TNTS has successfully transitioned over 1000 properties into its client's desired condition. TNTS offers a truly customizable turn-key solution in response to the ever changing market of clientele that require a more delicate hands on approach to assisting throughout their difficult and often challenging transition. Such transitions include untimely death, recent divorce, retirement, hoarding crisis, fire and flood, college relocations, upcoming home sale, new homebuyer, as well as clients who are suffering from debilitating illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s, ALS, Parkinson’s early stage Dementia and much more. By offering an assortment of customizable and consolidated services under one roof TNTS is able to tailor our service to fit any unique transitional situation.