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Posted by Annalisa Burgos | April 26, 2010
You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on home improvements to add value to your home.
Replacing outdated bathroom fixtures or adding roll-out shelves and drawer organizers to your kitchen cabinets are inexpensive upgrades.
If you’re looking to spruce up your home, whether you’re selling or in it for the long haul, enter to win HGTV’s FrontDoor Home Face-Lift Sweepstakes. One lucky winner will win $3,000 in cash to help with home improvements. Enter once a day until May 25, 2010.
In the meantime, find inspiration and start planning your remodel with these ideas:
Posted by Annalisa Burgos | August 6, 2009
Our FrontDoor family is growing! Now readers of some of the biggest newspapers in the country — the Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver Post and more — will get FrontDoor’s valuable expert tips, advice and videos and browse our 4 million listings.
FrontDoor.com is partnering with 250 newspapers across the country to enhance their Web sites, allowing homebuyers and sellers to browse local listings and real estate content.
In fact, the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFGate.com just launched this enhanced content, while the FrontDoor team attends Inman News‘ Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco this week. We hope all you Bay Area folks enjoy it!
Partners include Cox Newspapers, Freedom Newspapers, Journal Register Co. and Southern Newspaper Group.
If you recall, we announced a similar partnership with local television stations to enhance their Web content.
So look out for FrontDoor in a local newspaper near you!
Posted by Annalisa Burgos | July 27, 2009
We could all use a little cash these days, especially those of us who own homes or plan to buy one.
To celebrate the incredible opportunities for homebuyers, especially first timers, HGTV’s FrontDoor.com is giving away $2,500 in CASH to one lucky winner.
Enter the Summer Housewarming Sweepstakes now for your chance to win.
Fill out the entry form here: http://www.frontdoor.com/Buy/My-First-Place-Summer-Housewarming-Sweepstakes-Entry/55192.
You can enter once each day, now through August 25!
Think of all the things you could do with that kind of money! Use it to get caught up with your bills or add value to your home.
Posted by Annalisa Burgos | July 23, 2009
Ever wonder what really happens behind the scenes of an HGTV show? Now’s your chance to find out!
FrontDoor.com is giving you a virtual backstage pass to the new series “Real Estate Intervention,” through Twitter and Facebook.
During a special episode this Sunday, July 26, HGTV real estate expert Mike Aubrey will give you the inside scoop on his show LIVE through tweets and status updates. Tune in at 8:30 p.m. Eastern (7:30 p.m. Central).
But the best part is that you can join the conversation too!
Maybe you have a suggestion for the seller. Or you didn’t agree with Mike’s advice. Tweet and post your opinions and share them with other viewers. No more talking to the TV set alone! I’ll be adding my two cents too.
To join the interactive fun, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/HGTVFrontDoor or fan us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FrontDoor.
You can also follow along through the Facebook and Twitter streams on FrontDoor.com.
Don’t you just love social media?
Posted by Annalisa Burgos | June 25, 2009
Here at FrontDoor.com, nuestra casa es su casa.
And today, we’re happy to welcome millions of new members to the FrontDoor family — more than 60 local TV station affiliates throughout the country and their viewers!
Now you can get real estate listings and valuable homebuying and selling tips and advice from HGTV’s FrontDoor.com on some of your favorite local stations’ Web sites. This is just another example of how FrontDoor is reaching out to consumers in their local markets.
So, for example, Atlantans who tune in to WSB-TV and Denverites who watch KMGH, the Denver Channel can go to these stations’ Web sites and search for homes in the area and get great articles and videos from FrontDoor.com.
We’re bringing the tools you need for your home search and sale at a hyperlocal level. How awesome is that! Pretty awesome.
For more details, check out the news release.
Posted by Annalisa Burgos | June 12, 2009
With so much drama in the world, there’s no better time than now to step back and take a breath. It’s easy to get caught up with the stress and emotion of buying and selling a home. That’s why FrontDoor Insider Tara-Nicholle Nelson is sharing her solutions and strategies to deal with today’s frustrating real estate situations, like getting rejected for a mortgage or facing foreclosure after losing a job. It’s all in Tara’s Drama-Free Real Estate Guide at www.frontdoor.com/dramafree.
To spread the word about these great tips and advice, Tara and the FrontDoor team took it to the media — with the important message that now is not the time for consumers to panic (and it’s easy to with all the negative headlines), but rather they should be proactive.
Posted by Annalisa Burgos | June 8, 2009
HGTV has always been about enhancing your home and home life. So it makes sense that FrontDoor.com, the real estate site powered by HGTV, is about enhancing your search for the place you call home. That means bringing you valuable tips and advice to help you make smart decisions. So in addition to our blog and large library of articles and videos, we’ve created a vlog.
Real estate topics can be dry and boring, and most of the real estate news videos I’ve seen out there are just that. As the host, I want this to be informative and fun. And as a journalist, I want this to be relevant, since today’s buyers and homeowners don’t have time to sift through all the information that’s out there.
The vlog is not meant to be fancy or flashy. It’s our way of connecting with you as that smart friend “in the know.” Future episodes will feature different topics and occasionally a special guest. If there’s something you’d like to know or have an idea or pitch for the vlog, we want to hear it. Post a comment here and we could feature it in our next episode!
Posted by Annalisa Burgos | May 19, 2009
Let’s face it. Sellers in this market need as much help as they can get. When you’re competing with foreclosures and heavily-discounted new construction, your home needs to stand out. Play up your strengths, whether it’s a great view or amazing kitchen. And if you’ve got a REALLY unique feature, FrontDoor.com is the perfect place for you to market your one-of-a-kind property!
FrontDoor’s Cool Houses Daily (www.frontdoor.com/coolhouses) highlights the coolest, kookiest and most unique homes for sale across the U.S., from a custom-built grown-up treehouse for sale in Texas to the former home of gangster Al Capone listed in Chicago.
Each day, we showcase one new property that has a great story or very unusual selling feature, chosen from our more than 3.6 million for sale real estate listings.
Each Cool House is featured for about two weeks and actively promoted through FrontDoor’s weekly newsletter sent to 400,000 engaged home lovers and via various social networks such as Facebook (www.facebook.com/FrontDoor) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/HGTVFrontDoor), plus throughout the Web site itself.
Realtors and brokers can add value to their clients’ listings with CHD. Just go to the CHD page (www.frontdoor.com/coolhouses) for details on how to submit your cool house for sale. “Our audience appreciates a good story and we are always on the look out for new and unique ways to highlight homes available through FrontDoor,” says Rich Lacy, vice president and site director of FrontDoor.com. “This feature showcases additional dimensions to a listing.”
And for home lovers like me, it’s cool just to see what’s out there.
Posted by Annalisa Burgos | April 28, 2009
I’m trying to buy a condo in Manhattan and you know that’s nothing but drama. Running around the city via subway and cabs. Dealing with sellers who haven’t accepted the reality of the market. Trying to get financing with loan terms I want. And hello! Did you know New York City has the highest closing costs in the country, averaging $4,016, according to a survey by Bankrate?! DRAMA!
Well, now there’s a guide for anyone tired of the stress of buying, selling or financing a home. (drum roll please)
Introducing the new “Drama-Free Real Estate” series on HGTV’s FrontDoor.com. FrontDoor Freak-Out Prevention Specialist and real estate expert Tara-Nicholle Nelson offers more than 100 timely stories and tips to help you take the drama out of your homebuying, selling and financing experience. Check it out at: http://www.frontdoor.com/dramafree
Tara’s breaks down the “Top 10” action steps, strategies and insider secrets you must know; offers “Don’t Freak Out” tips to tackle the main sources of frustration; and shares her experiences and lessons learned with real-life clients in “Been There, Done That.”
If you’ve got drama you can’t handle, consult Tara’s guide and leave a comment here. We want to hear about it!
Posted by Annalisa Burgos | April 16, 2009
Selling a home is a challenging job racked with potential pitfalls. Those of us who’ve experienced those pitfalls know the misery. Well people, misery loves company!
FrontDoor.com wants to hear your stories about surviving a home selling nightmare! Did your home sit on the MLS for three months without one offer? Did your real estate agent list your home too high and you had to reduce the price every week? Did the professional stager charge you an arm and a leg for some new paint and candles? Did the appraisal come back lower than your sale price? Did the home inspection reveal thousands of dollars in necessary repairs and your buyer threatened to bail?
We want to hear about it! Email your home selling nightmares to egray@scrippsnetworks.com. We could feature you on FrontDoor.com’s new Pricing Your Home Guide, due out in May!
Everyone wants to get the most money out of their home when they sell, but you can’t always get what you want. If you really have to sell now, do the research so you can price your home based on fair market value and market trends. Be realistic. You may have to do a lot of compromising to get your home sold.
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