* Advertising your home, if you're selling it yourself. This could easily run into hundreds of dollars, depending on methods you choose. * Realtor commissions - typically 6% of selling price. *Closing costs, including attorney and other professional fees * Excise taxes on sale * Property taxes and any homeowner association fees

Take Care Of Any Needed Repairs

If you've been putting off getting driveway fixed, repairing roof or any other needed repairs, time to do it is now, before you put your house on market. Some repairs, left undone, will prevent your home from selling at all and others will bring your asking price down. Replacing broken roofing tiles, loose gutter shoring and other minor but unsightly problems will make your house that much more saleable.

Get Your House Looking Its Best

Selling for price you want depends on how appealing your house is. Take a good, hard look at your house, inside and out. Trim bushes, mow lawns, plant a flower bed. Something as simple as giving your siding and windows a good scrub down can freshen its look immensely.

Here are some other things that increase chances of your house selling quickly:

* A fresh coat of paint, or just touching up trim * Freshly painted interior walls * New carpet or flooring in common rooms like kitchen or bathroom

Have A Garage Sale

Get rid of all accumulated clutter and pocket a little profit at same time. That collection of kids' bikes in garage may be a storehouse of memories to you, but to a prospective buyer they're just clutter - and they will make your garage look smaller. Clear away as much clutter as you possibly can. When you're ready to show your house, it should be as close to move-in condition as possible. The more easily a buyer can picture their own family in house, more likely they will be to buy.

Be realistic in your expectations. Children (not just picky eater children) up to age ten still use their fingers quite a lot in ways that adults don't, like pushing peas onto a spoon and picking up pieces of meat. They still have some trouble chewing and swallowing tough or dry or fibrous foods, like steak or chops. Part of problem might be that they don’t have jaw strength to chew up meat.

Another part is that up until about age eight their swallow is immature. They swallow with their cheeks, as if they were suckling from a straw, not using their tongue like you or I do. Children this age still have a limited number of foods they readily accept. Do not despair. The number of accepted foods will gradually increase, as they get older. The numbers will increase -- that is, provided you don't make a big issue about it. Often times making a big deal can cause and decrease in food acceptance rather then an increase.

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