Short Hills real estate owners typically have beautiful lawns anyway, but if you’ve found that it’s time to sell your home for another property, curb appeal can mean everything, and these spring landscaping tips can help.

• Dump The Dead: Dead foliage, twigs, and leaves can leave your lawn looking like it’s had a rough time this winter. Take the time to remove all of it as soon as possible. If you have ornamental grasses in your yard, you’ll want to cut them back at least six inches so you can get ready for new growth. Be sure to remove the clippings, though.
• Tackle Low Areas: Spring is the ideal time to use mulch for those lower areas in your overall landscape plan. Four inches of mulch is about the maximum you should use in any given area.
• Take Care of The Weeds: In just fifteen minutes a day three days a week, you could tackle any weed problems you have. It doesn’t take a lot of time to keep up with the problem, and stopping it before it starts means you won’t have to spend hours making the outside of your Summit NJ real estate look more attractive.
• A Little Help Never Hurts: From your lawn to your flower beds, a little help from fertilizer certainly isn’t going to hurt your curb appeal. You can even find a huge variety of organics to help keep your lawn safe for the kids.

Curb appeal means everything when you’re trying to sell your home, so take the time to make your lawn look like a spring oasis.

One of the things lots of new buyers search for when they’re home shopping is the availability of activities near their new home. For some, it’s something as simple as the public library. For others, it’s a simple rec center. For many buyers around here, though, the draw of the great golf courses in the area is a huge benefit. Here are just a few you may want to check out as you’re looking for real estate.

The Canoe Brook Country Club is home to two courses – the North Course and the South Course. Both are private courses, and the North Course includes a number of longer par 4s and par 5s than you can find on the South Course. The layout was designed by architect Rees Jones. Qualifying rounds for the US Open and the PGA Championship have been held here in recent years.

The Millburn Municipal Golf Course is a public course. A nine hole par-3 course, it is located in Short Hills. With sand bunkers on virtually every hole, and narrow tree-lined fairways, it provides fun for golfers at almost every level.

The East Orange Golf Course is another popular public course. Also located in Short Hills, most of the fairways are open, and with sand bunkers scattered throughout, it offers an entertaining day for golfers of all ages.

The Pinch Brook Golf Club is a public eighteen hole executive length course. With three sets of teeboxes, water hazards at eight of the holes, and large greens, it’s an excellent outing any day of the week.

The Brooklake Country Club is a private course with open fairways and fast large greens. You’ll find water hazards at nine of the holes as well as lots of sand bunkers. A beautifully manicured course, it’s as much fun to look at as it is to play.