For Sale by Owner Tips
1.) Detach Yourself Emotionally From Your Home.
- Step back and ask for friend’s advice to help you open your eyes to things that can be fixed. This is not a time to take things personally but to regroup and make necessary changes to make your home sale successful.
2.) Spice up Curb Appeal
- Before you place your home on the market make sure your home is in top shape. In a competitive buyers market first impressions are everything! If you leave chipped paint, old musty carpets, broken windows, or a withering front yard you may lose buyers or even reduce your potential purchase price.
3.) Set a Realistic Price
- Many buyers price their home based upon personal opinions and not what the current market value is. If you start off wrong and let your home sit on the market buyers will take note and use that against you when you receive a buy/sell.
- Some real estate professionals will prepare a “Competitive Market Analysis” or CMA for free.
- At this time you should determine if you are willing to work with realtors who want to show your home to clients. If you choose not to you could potentially loose many valuable buyers.
4.) Get Your Home Noticed
- Create a webpage for your home with websites like Postlets.
- Take pictures! If you don’t you will lose more potential buyers than you can fathom.
- Visit local real estate offices with flyers that include your homes web address.
5.) Showings
- When you finally get that showing that you have been working so hard for make sure your home is in top shape.
- Clean off the counters, if you have countless pictures that cover the walls get rid of them (except a few).
- Detach yourself.
- Don’t crowed the potential buyers.
6.) Offers
- If you get one soon don’t be greedy. Take that step back that we have been ramming into your brain. How badly do you want to move? Would you be willing to stay in your home for another six months to a year?
- Take some time to think it over you can make negotiations just be realistic.
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