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Showing posts with label Home Seller Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Home Seller Tips. Show all posts
Is using a professional stager important?
Actually, it depends. Typically, we only need to bring in a professional about 10% of the time.
To determine what the case is for your home, we will come out to your home and take a look for ourselves.
Generally, most of the homes we visit tend to look very inviting.
Most of the time, we notice that people tend to have very good tastes. Generally, most of the homes we visit tend to look very inviting.
The only way we can say whether or not you should use a stager is by visiting your home.
If you have any other questions or would like more information, feel free to give us a call or send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
As a seller, is a pre-listing inspection important?
Although some Realtors are doing this, we actually don’t recommend that you order a pre-listing inspection.
Why?
The buyer will hire their own home inspector. Some of the items on your inspector’s list may not match up with their inspector’s list. As a result, you might fix things that you believe should be addressed but that the buyer is not concerned with.
There’s really no need to spend money on a pre-listing inspection.
There’s really no need to spend that extra money.
If there are obvious things that need to be fixed that you don’t need an inspector to tell you about, then go ahead and take care of them. Otherwise, I would skip spending the money on a pre-listing inspection.
If you have any other questions about selling your home, just give us a call or send us an email. We would be happy to help you!
Once you reach a certain point in your real estate transaction, knowing how to negotiate is going to be critical to your success.
Whether you’re a buyer or a seller, there are a few tips that can help.
First, enlist the help of a professional. Hiring a Realtor with a lot of experience will automatically place you in a better position. With a professional on your side helping you negotiate terms, you’re sure to strike a better deal.
Next, remember not to overprice your home. Negotiation can only get you so far, and overpricing your home can really backfire when you’re trying to close a deal. Price your home as close to its market value as possible.
Negotiating and renegotiating can be draining.
You also need to make sure you aren’t going back and forth too much. If you think a home is overpriced by $10,000, don’t just come back with an offer that is only $500 less. Negotiating and renegotiating can be draining.
You want to put yourself and the people on the other side of the deal through the least stress possible. Creating too much difficulty could break the sale completely.
Following these tips will help you to be vastly more successful in the negotiation process.
If you have any other questions or would like more information, feel free to give me a call or send me an email. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
If you’re selling your home and you own one or more pets, your situation is slightly different from other home sellers. Here are six tips to follow so that you don’t run into any problems during your home sale: 1. Check with your homeowners insurance and make sure you’re covered. In the unlikely event that your pet gets spooked and bites a visitor, you need to make sure that that kind of situation is covered with your insurance company. 2. Take a walk around the yard and clean up thoroughly. You don’t want any potential buyers to go home with something on the bottom of their shoes that wasn’t there when they stepped out of the car. That’s going to leave a bad impression.
3. Get rid of any pet odors. If you live there, you’re probably used to the way it smells. That’s why we always recommend that sellers in this situation have a neighbor or friend walk in their house and test if there’s an overwhelming pet odor. If that’s the case, you can add some air fresheners and have your carpets professionally cleaned.
4. Clean up all stray hairs. Any dog or cat hair that might be clinging to your couches, floors, hardwood, or tile needs to be vacuumed and swept. Roller lint brushes are a great tool to get this job done. 5. Hide the evidence that your pet was even there. If you’ve got a kitty litter box, slide it under the bed. If you have bags of pet food sitting around, store them in the garage so they’re out of sight. 6. Say goodbye to your pet for the duration of the home sale. This might be hard, but it’s probably better for your pet not to experience so many strangers walking through your house. Also, not having a pet around can put a buyer’s mind at ease and allow them to focus on your home.
You want people focused on your home, not your pet.
If there is a topic you’d like me to cover in a future email, feel free to give me a call, shoot me a text, or send me an email. I’d be glad to help!
I’d like to share four great tips for getting your home ready to sell this fall or spring that are both low cost and guaranteed to improve its overall saleability: 1. Stand at the curb and look at your house. The presentation right from the get-go is very important, so clean up the curb appeal. Take a look at any bushes that may need to be trimmed, put fresh mulch on the flower beds, and add a little bit of overall color. 2. Look at your front door. If you have chipped paint or hardware that doesn’t look great on the front door, go ahead and spend that $100 to replace it so it’s shiny. After you’re done making the front door appealing, turn around inside the front alcove of your home and inspect for things like cobwebs, spiderwebs, or more chipped paint. Buyers look for these things when your Realtor shows them your home. 3. Give the inside of your home a fresh coat of paint. Chances are, all those fingerprints and innocent little markings on the walls you think aren’t noticeable actually are. Nothing adds as much impact and erases those little blemishes better than a fresh coat of paint. Consider adding new carpeting as well. It’s a semi-big expense, but the visual effect it offers can’t be overstated. 4. Don’t forget the garage and attic. If you’ve got colonies of boxes stacked up in either area, now might be a good time to donate whatever’s in them to the Goodwill and get that tax deduction by the end of the year. Additionally, clean through your closets and get rid of any extra clothes you don’t need anymore.
Your home’s first impression is crucial.
Following these four steps can make a big difference in the saleability of your home. If you have any questions or have any video topics you’d like me to discuss, please feel free to give me a call, send me an email, or shoot me a text. I’d love to hear from you, and I hope you have a happy holiday!
If you're selling your home, the best way to get a great price is by creating a bidding war. I have three tips to help you do just that.
I've got some tips that can help you spark a bidding war on your home when you sell it.
Price low to sell high. This is what banks do when they have a foreclosure; they take a home worth $200,000 and list it for $175,000, and interest explodes. Increased interest and demand will increase the sales price. Pricing your home even 3% or 4% below its market value can generate interest that can drive the sales price above the value that the home might have gotten if it was priced higher or at market value.
Set deadlines for buyers. Typically, we put a home on the MLS on a Wednesday, don’t allow showings until Saturday, don’t look at offers until Monday, and wait until Wednesday to accept offers. By nature, people want things that are hard to have even more. This strategy creates a buying frenzy and increases the price.
Stage a perfect open house. In the home's first week on the market, we load all of our social media with open house and for sale info about the new listing coming this weekend. We use multiple yard signs and directional signs, and hold the open houses from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. We also put the house on Zillow and our website, and we often have 20 to 30 people in to see that property as it first hits the market. This creates unbelievable interest and exposure. Typically, this helps our buyers get the highest and best price.
Bidding wars can actually drive your sale price above market value.
I hope you enjoyed this topic--you certainly will if you're selling a home. If you have topics you'd like to see discussed or you just have questions about the DFW real estate market, give us a call or send us an email. We'd love to hear from you!
If you’re selling your home, you have probably heard a lot of advice about the selling process from friends and family members. Today, I wanted to point out the three worst pieces of home selling advice that people actually believe: 1. You can only sell your home in the spring and summer if you want to receive a good value. There is a lot of market activity in the spring and summer, but you can definitely sell your house no matter what time of year it is. In fact, there are more homes on the market at the end of year because of job transfers. People will need to move in before January 1st. Ultimately, if you need to move, that is when you need to put your home on the market. 2. You don’t have to fix your home up before you put it on the market. A lot of people think they don’t have to do any work on their home because buyers will want to pick their own paint colors or carpeting. While this might sound handy and convenient, not fixing your home up will actually hurt your selling process. Your home will sit on the market longer and you will get a lower sales price. You need to fix any minor or cosmetic issues before showing your home. That way, buyers get the impression that the home is well-maintained. 3. It’s okay to hire a Realtor who uses their cellphone to take pictures of your home. This is not a good idea. Most buyers start their home searches online, which means the pictures of your home are incredibly important. You never get a second chance at a first impression. You need to post professional photos of your home on the MLS in order to have a successful home sale.
If you need to move, then that is when you need to put your home on the market.
Avoid these three home selling myths and you will have a successful home sale. If you have any other questions about selling your home or about the real estate market in general, give me a call or send me an email. I would be happy to help you!
