Decorating your home for the holidays while it is for sale in can be complicated. While you don't want to forego having a festive holiday season in your home, you also want to maintain a home that will impress potential buyers when they view the home. Here are some tips we've found to help you strike that balance.

•   Make your decorations consistent with the style of your home. [Modern = modern, traditional = traditional]

• Don't go overboard with outdoor lights and decorations (white lights if you can manage it). - However, if you will look like the only Grinch in the neighbourhood with no lights, keep the feel of the area in mind.

• Keep your space tidy, even around your tree.

•  Don't leave your gifts out around your tree. It is a temptation for someone to help themselves and adds clutter to the room.

• ·Be mindful of eating up floorspace, or decorations that tend to detract from the spacious feeling of a room.

• ·Don't use too many (or any possibly) religious symbols.

• ·Avoid displaying cards you have received.

• ·Try to accentuate the positive features of your home.

• ·Keep the holiday decorations depersonalized if possible.

• ·Take advantage of holiday scents.

Keeping these things in mind will help your listed home put its best foot forward, and hopefully start the new year with a new owner!!

If you have any questions about this subject, you can call us at (902) 826-3070 or email us at info@highlanderlaw.ca to set up a meeting with one of our lawyers at our Tantallon law firm. You can also schedule a no commitment Issue Review Consult for $250+HST where you have the opportunity to explain your situation to a lawyer and get basic advice before deciding whether or not you'd like to retain us.

By: Briana C. O’Grady J.D – Associate Lawyer

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