Selling 101

What’s Your Home Worth?

Finding out your home’s value in today’s real estate market is easy! Check out our Free Home Valuation page where you can enter a few details about your home and we will personally create you a custom full CMA (Comparable Market Analysis) on your home that will give you detailed & recent local Real Estate Market trends, recently sold properties, pending property sales, comparable homes values, neighborhood values, and more. We will give you all of the tools & data to see what similar homes are selling for so you can price your home right the first time. This along with our knowledge of the current buyer/seller activity is the best way to get an accurate estimate of what your home will sell for in today’s current real estate market. Together we can combine your selling needs, the market data and our experience to set the best selling price for your home to get it sold fast and for the best price.

Showings  

People will be coming in and out of your home, sizing the house up for themselves. As your agent, we will wear many hats, and you can be confident that we know the local area thoroughly and can answer all questions about your home, the community & the local real estate market. From fielding phone calls about your home, watching out for potential problems, we work hard to make your home is showing the best it can.  We encourage feedback to listen and make improvements where possible.

Home Staging

The difference between a staged home and an un-staged home can translate to thousands of dollars in the sale price, in either direction. Properly staged homes often sell for more money and can even trigger a bidding war on your home! Clutter often makes rooms seem smaller, and overwhelming decorations may prevent a potential buyer from envisioning their own style in the room. This is a time to truly accept that you’re moving forward and allow yourself to picture your home through potential buyers’ eyes. Constructive feedback and suggestions are there only to make the home more appealing and desirable.  So whether its painting, bringing in new towels or removing the old chair, it’s all in the spirit of selling your home.  Watch the below video to see how Home Staging can help buyers see your home as more attractive and help your home sell faster AND for more money!

Marketing Your Home

When listing your home, you will have many real estate agents competing to work with you. What makes us different than all of the rest? The services we offer. Many real estate agents / brokers are stuck in the old marketing ways of the past and don’t take the time to learn new ways to market your home like Social Media, Single Property Web pages, Virtual tours, and even dramatic Drone shots.  These are some of the things that we discuss to help offset your home.  We’re constantly looking for new ways to bring more traffic and buyers to your home. We understand the importance of using technology & social media to get your home sold fast & for top dollar.

Closing Time

Once you’ve finally accepted an offer on your home, inspections will be done to satisfy both the buyer and their mortgage lender. Many sale agreements are incredibly complex and feature a number of qualifications and fine print. This can be confusing and may include additional requests and addendum’s. We are familiar with these documents and can help guide you through the process.

Packing & Moving

Don’t wait to discuss moving until your house is under contract. Moving personal items and furniture normally starts as soon as you’re getting the house ready for sell.  When you declutter, you may find it’s easier to pack up many items from closets that you won’t need right away such as off season clothes, personal pictures, keepsakes, special occasion dinnerware, and much more.  This will greatly reduce you packing load later and makes your closets look larger. As you will also find getting rid of “things” you can donate, yard sale or there are many sites where you can sell them.  This declutter process is surprisingly therapeutic.

Are you packing yourself or hiring a company?  Are you moving yourself or bringing in some pros?  Are you moving some or all to a storage unit or to a new place? Getting a POD?  Consider not only the cost to move, but other factors like time and proper equipment. Though professional movers may seem pricey at first, when you look at the time and money to get similar results, you may re-consider. Be sure to get moving estimates in writing and compare several companies. Ask for discounts and be sure to only use licensed, bonded movers. Also make a checklist so that you’re organized and efficient, especially naming the boxes and coding them (color, # or name) with a room at the new place with the same code.  This reduces the stress greatly when you start to unload. Or ask us! We often have knowledge of many local companies that can make your move easier.