Five free things that will help your home sell faster

Nancy Schrimpf Coldwell Banker Village Properties Special to the Village News

Despite what HGTV would like you to believe, it is rarely wise to make major improvements when preparing to sell your home. Sure, if a celebrity greets you in the aisle of your local home improvement store and offers a free remodel in return for some elbow grease on your part, do it. But if you are paying retail for the improvements and you are doing them to your taste, you are inflating the cost of your home without necessarily matching the taste of your buyers. That's a bad strategy in most cases. So what's a home...