Designed to Sell Top 35 Selling Secrets

Three teams from the hit show Designed to Sell have put their heads together and come up with their top 35 ideas for bringing in top dollar from a house sale.

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Hide CaptionShow CaptionIn addition to cleaning to neutralize odors, add aroma to the house with the comforting smell of baking cookies.

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Nothing is worse than a smelly home, so make it fresh. "Before an open house, open up all of the windows and air the house out. Boil cinnamon, bake cookies, bake bread — do anything you can to have the air smelling fresh and clean,"
advises designer Lisa LaPorta.

Carpenter Chad Lopez offers another idea for bringing in some pleasant scents: "You can actually buy, from the paint store, scent packets, which you add to the paint before you paint the walls. As time goes by, they will gradually release a scent."