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 “How to sell your Home” books ,workshops are promoted on internet sites  everywhere you look.

What about those of you who don’t want to sell?

As a realtor helping families to sell for the past 25 year I handled all their objectives to overcome those hurdles so they could move on with their plans.

Don’t want to sell. Here are tips for the families that don’t want to sell?

Seniors not wanting to give up their independence, young families struggling with job loss or a martial break up are often cases where they have to sell but may not want to.  Here are 12 tips on how not to sell your home  

• Forget about the baking an apple pie or baking cookies...Cook fish just before the potential buyers arrive

• Don’t leave...Stay home and best of all go to bed  when you expect a showing

• Never price your home similar to your competition you List your home  at least $10,000 more

• Go next door when there is a showing and ask your neighbour to show you how loud his stereo can go

• Loosen all your door knobs and handles

• Forget to shut off your alarm and oops! you didn’t give your realtor the disarming code

• Tell your children not to clean their rooms or make their beds

• Hid  your kitty litter box from your cat

• Unscrew all your light bulbs and request showings at night.

• Panhandle  for money to pay the mortgage

• Rent your children out to childless couples for extra cash

• Ignore all the above tips and  just don’t move out on closing day

 For opposite results Julie can be reached at

Ely Matlow Real Estate Brokerage

Kitchener