Curb Appeal

Written by Amie Walton


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Homeowners should plant colorful flowers along walkway leading torepparttar door, prune existing trees, shrubs and bushes, and add fresh mulch. Clean out dead plants and weeds from flower beds and refresh with colorful plants and annuals. Taller plants atrepparttar 112189 corners of your house will help anchor it withrepparttar 112190 landscape. Shorter plants near your home's entry bring attention to your front door. However, this could have a negative impact ifrepparttar 112191 front door is in need of repair (another reason to rethinkrepparttar 112192 exterior improvements noted previously). Last but most definitely not least and probably most important, ensure your lawn is trimmed and green. If you have a lawn in need of attention, you may want to consult a landscaper for advice before trying to repair on your own.

Overall Appeal

Some further touches that will go along way to increasingrepparttar 112193 appeal of your home from curbside are:

Outdoor lighting - Exterior lighting in your garden, walkway or entrance area add a warmth and welcome feeling that will make a viewer want to see more.

Indoor lighting - While your house is onrepparttar 112194 market, leave lamps on in 1 or 2 front rooms. It bringsrepparttar 112195 home to life and, again, providesrepparttar 112196 same warmth and welcome feeling asrepparttar 112197 exterior lighting. Exterior lighting alone will not providerepparttar 112198 appearance of a well loved, lived in home, likerepparttar 112199 combination of exterior and interior lighting can.

Furniture - As long asrepparttar 112200 chairs are well kept and not cluttered looking withinrepparttar 112201 space, two chairs on a front porch provides a tremendous visual appeal fromrepparttar 112202 street. Buyers viewrepparttar 112203 exterior as an extension ofrepparttar 112204 home and will want to view more. The best advice for creating great curb appeal, is to take a walk through your favourite neighbourhood. Analyze what works really well and what doesn't. Then determine why and incorporate those items to fit your own exterior. Most of all enjoyrepparttar 112205 outdoors and don't get too overwhelmed by repparttar 112206 work at hand. © February, 2004 - Xstream Realty Incorporated



Amie Walton is the president and founder of Xstream Realty, a Virtual Agent for managing private real estate sales over the internet. As an Accredited Staging Professional, Amie also operates Xstream Staginga Home Staging business located in Nova Scotia, Canada.


STOP LOSS ORDER METHODS

Written by Al Thomas


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day moving average you will have to dorepparttar calculations either daily or weekly. You add uprepparttar 112188 closing prices forrepparttar 112189 past 20 days and divide by 20. This should be done once each week andrepparttar 112190 number calculated is your stop loss. Again nothing complicated. The steeperrepparttar 112191 advancerepparttar 112192 shorter should berepparttar 112193 number of days forrepparttar 112194 moving average. If you are lucky enough to have one of those skyrockets you might even be down to a 5DMA. Some traders use a 50 day MA and others even a 200-day MA. Mutual funds lend themselves torepparttar 112195 latter, Finding support and resistance points requires a more sophisticated approach. This is something you are going to have to study. There are many places onrepparttar 112196 Internet that have short explanations with examples of how to determine these points. Briefly you watch a stock, fund, ETF run up and then you see it stop and set back like a stair step. It will rest for a while with a short up and down sideways pattern that forms beforerepparttar 112197 next move higher. Your stop should now be down atrepparttar 112198 pointrepparttar 112199 recent up move started. When it advances again this current formation becomesrepparttar 112200 stop loss point. This is not mechanical and requires a more experienced trader to determine these points. Once you learn this technique you will also begin to seerepparttar 112201 orderliness ofrepparttar 112202 market. The mastery of an exit strategy with stop loss orders will immediate put you inrepparttar 112203 top 10% of all investors. Learning how to sell isrepparttar 112204 key to successful investing.

F*R*E*E investment letter www.mutualfundmagic.com Author of best seller "IF IT DOESN'T GO UP,DON'T BUY IT!" Never lose money in the market. Copyright 2004 Albert W. Thomas All rights reserved.Former 17-year exchange member, floor trader and brokerage company owner.


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