Spring into Mulch-imizing your Curb Appeal ... Dallas and Collin County

HAPPY 1ST DAY of SPRING!!!  

It's time to get our yards back to beautiful, which if you're thinking of SELLING your house is a must to maximize your home's Curb Appeal! One way to do that is to add MULCH to your planters, trees and flower beds. According to Menards Garden Center, the many benefits of MULCH include:

• Completes the look of your yard or flower bed
• Acts as a natural weed control
• Maintains moisture levels in your soil, protecting from over and under watering
• Acts as a barrier to fluctuating temperatures that can cause damage or death to your plants
• Plant-based mulch adds nutrients back into the soil as it decomposes
• Helps cool plant roots 

Speaking of MULCH, did you know the City of Garland's Hinton Regional Landfill and Wood Recycling Facility, offers FREE MULCH to anybody who'd like some?!? You read that right!

The Hinton Landfill has a Recycling Center that does "Wood Recycling" which consists of cut brush and trees that the Residents of the City of Garland & City of Rowlett have picked up from their residence. The Wood Recycling shreds/chips the collected Brush and Trees into MULCH.

So how much MULCH can you get, as much as you want! It's a self-serve area, meaning you need to bring your own tools to collect the MULCH and the container for it, which typically is the bed of a truck.

The MULCH is located at the Recycling Center inside the Hinton Regional Landfill. At the gate, turn right and it's at the end of building sitting in a trailer. 

Now before going all MULCH crazy in your yards, here are a few tips I learned from the Menards Gardening Center ...

• Remove as much of the old layers of MULCH as possible before you add more.
• Your MULCH should never be more than three inches thick in a planting bed.
• You should also apply MULCH in the winter, after the 1st freeze, to keep the ground uniformly cold to keep plants dormant and to keep the soil temperature from fluctuating when we have those random winter warm spells. 

Happy Spring everyone and thank you very MULCH City of Garland Environmental Services!  (Pun intended) 

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Let me know if I can help you or your family/friends with any Real Estate needs. Please know that I am never too busy for you or your referral & I would honor the chance to earn the business!

If there's a neighborhood that you'd like more information on in Rowlett, Heath, Rockwall, Garland, Mesquite, Fate, Royse City, Wylie, Sachse, or Murphy, simply Email me or go to my Website to request a personal Home Search.   If you're thinking about Selling your home and would like to find out how much your home is worth in the current market, simply go to my Website to fill out the form.

Staging Your Home to Sell - Home Staging Tips

So you are planning to SELL your HOME and have already taken care of the "5 Easy Ways to Get Your Home Ready to Sell". Now the last step before putting your home on the market is to STAGE your HOME! 

STAGING YOUR HOME TO SELL is a marketing tool that is becoming more & more essential in the the Lake Ray Hubbard Real Estate Market. As your Realtor, one of my main responsibilities is to make sure YOUR HOME SELLS in as little time as possible and for as much money as possible! STAGING is a big part of this and needs to be done prior to taking pictures to post online! Remember, you get one 1st Impression and the bottom line is that an attractive listing will be shown more often, which means more market exposure, which is obviously needed for a quick & profitable SALE. 

What is Staging??? Simply put, staging is where you arrange your home and it's decor to highlight the best features of your house AND maximize the appearance of the square feet. Here are some tips to do just that ... 

• Remove Big Furniture & and Table “leafs” to show off the square footage

• Remove the "chachkies" ... if there's lots of little things, the eye doesn’t know where to focus. 

• Remove family pictures & memorabilia from refrigerator, walls, ect ... remember, your Home Is NOT your Home Anymore … it’s an Item for Sale

• Put Rooms back to their Purpose … make sure Dining Room is set up for Eating & not as an Office space

• Clear Fire Place Mantle & Coffee Tables … Less is More

• Clear off Kitchen Counter Tops ... place plug in appliances in cabinets, under counters

• Patios & Backyard add a Sitting Areas and Potted Flowers or Plants to really brighten up the area

• For rooms without Natural Light, use GE Reveal Bulbs

• Add Simple Accessories & fresh Flowers throughout the house 

As your Lake Ray Hubbard area Realtor, I will work with you from Beginning to End making sure that we do all that we can to get your Home SOLD! Contact me to set up an appointment to discuss in more detail about marketing and selling your Lake Ray Hubbard area home.

   

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Let me know if I can help you or your family/friends with any Real Estate needs. Please know that I am never too busy for you or your referral & I would honor the chance to earn the business!

If there's a neighborhood that you'd like more information on, simply EMAIL Me or go to my Website to request a personal Home Search.   If you're thinking about Selling your home and would like to find out how much your home is worth in the current market, simply go to my Website to fill out the form.