home selling: Selling Your Home for More Money Faster! How Long will it take to Sell?
- 04/14/12 12:22 AM
"Selling Your Home for More Money and Faster". Everybody want to know about the faster part of selling. We went over the first three phases of selling your home. This part 4 of the 7 part series. If you missed any of the steps you can review them quickly by selecting the link to the blog post below. Part 1 of a 7 part series. "Finding the Right Real Estate Agent" "Pricing Your Home to Sell", understanding the competition." "Stage Your Home to Sell Faster", box, pack, stack and store." "How long?" "Making Your Home Squeaky Clean" "Nose Check", no scary smells … (15 comments)
home selling: Sell My Home for More Money Faster!
- 04/13/12 11:51 PM
Every home seller wants to know how to sell their home for the most money possible in the shortest amount of time! Part 1 of a 7 part series, Selling Your Home for More Money Faster! "Finding the Right Real Estate Agent" "Pricing Your Home to Sell", understanding the competition. "Stage Your Home to Sell Faster", box, pack, stack and store. "How long?" "Making Your Home Squeaky Clean" "Nose Check", no scary smells "Price Adjustments that Work", dropping your sell price. Selling your home for more money faster, may seem like the number one goal of every home seller. Across the … (3 comments)
home selling: Do I look like an ATM?
- 02/07/12 06:15 AM
Do I look Like your personal ATM? Real Estate Agents and Brokers are in the business of real estate, selling homes. I maintain an office in Grand Rapids Michigan under the name Flexit Realty®. The name was created from “Flexible Real Estate Solutions” but that isn’t why I look like an ATM. From time to time we all hear from potential clients the reasons why they can’t buy. We hear why they will have trouble paying the rent. We even hear why they are moving. Most of the time you have to feel for the economic situation that has caused them … (8 comments)
home selling: Selling Your Home in 12 Easy Steps, Step #12 Negotiations
- 02/06/12 10:05 AM
Negotiating Your Homes Sale, Step #12 Is one of the finale steps before you meet at the title company or lawyers office, depending on your state and method of completing your homes sale. This steps requires some diplomacy and nerve to hold your ground on issues that will not kill the sale, yet will not cost your thousands of dollars. Before inspections in most cases, before the value appraisal comes the purchase agreement to buy your home. Real estate agents have very little contract negotiation training. Agents bring Real Estate agents often do not have Negotiation Skills, they are learned on the job, … (4 comments)
home selling: Selling Your Home in 12 Easy Steps, Step #11 Open Houses
- 02/04/12 01:34 AM
Selling Your Home, Step #11 Open Houses A few days before your “Open House” go over the home selling steps already covered in this series. Create the right home selling environment for buyers. We will cover how to advertise your home for sale to maximize buyer attendance to your open house. Step #4 Marketing Methods to attract the widest range of buyers that may be Marketing Your Home correctly will help buyer's find Your Home First! interested in your home. Step #5 Property Descriptions, you will not be handing your property descriptions to every buyer that comes through the door, but those interested in … (8 comments)
home selling: 12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home, Step #4
- 01/28/12 03:45 AM
12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home (originally posted on the FlexitRealtyBlog) “Step #4 Marketing Methods to expose your home to the maximum number of buyers". Many home sellers and agents think, a home for sale listing is completed when the photos are taken and the home has it’s description written and recorded on the local real estate agents MLS (Multiple Listing Service) and the real estate companies website. This is far from the end, this is the beginning of the marketing campaign to promote a home for sale! Real Estate Agents let the MLS spread the word of your home being listed for sale, for them. … (5 comments)
home selling: Home Sales Drop or Did They?
- 01/26/12 10:13 AM
It has been reported that foreclosed home sales have dropped by 3.5% in December 2011, according to Bloomberg. This was after posting a home sales gain in November 2011. The Foreclosure sales numbers, we knew were going to drop because of the pending litigation against banks for processing foreclosures wrong. The sales slump showed up and everyone was shouting we have turned the corner on the foreclosure market. Not so, just a blimp in the processing cycle because of litigation. President Obama may have a refinance program offered up, that has yet to pass congress or even be written as a … (2 comments)
home selling: Selling Your Home Step # 2
- 01/26/12 01:39 AM
Originally Published on the FlexitRealty Blog Step #2 Who Is Your Homes Selling Competition? We priced your home based on your condition, location and neighborhood. Is that your competition when selling your home? Selling your home, may have competition for areas other than just your neighborhood. If a buyer has no children, not married or does not have a specific reason for selecting your neighborhood over another neighborhood your homes selling price, might be the only home buying motivator for that buyer. If the buyer is single and not considering partners or marriage the motivation might be distance from work, parents or … (0 comments)
home selling: 12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home, Step #1 Pricing
- 01/25/12 12:10 PM
12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home in the Grand Rapids Real Estate Market. Deciding to Sell Your Home? What Home Selling Steps Are You Going to Take? 12 part series Easy to Follow Home Selling Steps Providing you with key home selling information. Each Day, Over the Next 12 Days Flexit Realty will be adding a Step in the "12 Easy Steps to Selling YOUR Home Guide". Content previously published on the FlexitRealtyBlog.com Step # 1 Estimating your homes Sell Price. The number one question all home owners ask, “How Much Money will be left over for … (3 comments)
home selling: Google Makes another Change in Your Site Ratings
- 01/21/12 04:33 AM
Sometimes people use the word ratings and Page Rank interchangeably. Ratings are more about readership and content approval based on age, gender or preference. Page Rank was developed by Larry Page and pertains to how Google views your site based on a secret checklist of items Google feels important to their users experience. The new change is all about user experience and less about the website. Ever see a telephone pole on a corner with ads and posters stapled, nailed or glued to it? We some website have little content but offer a host of ads selling unrelated products in banner … (7 comments)
home selling: The New 10 Commandments of Real Estate Marketing
- 01/06/12 04:57 AM
Commandment #1 Do NOT Target Clients with Information they Don't Want! We have all been exposed to marketing efforts and sales pitches from the time we could read an or listed to a TV commercial during Saturday morning cartoons. New books are published each year about how to market or sell homes. How to get more listings. Free home buyer leads. Free seller leads of people ready to list their home for sale. Free websites that will convert every person that comes to your website. Yup we know the hype. Most of it is just marketing to separate you from … (3 comments)
home selling: If I sell on a Land Contract will my Bank Know?
- 12/11/11 11:59 PM
Selling you home is selling your home. What constitutes selling can mean something completely different to you than it does to banks and lenders. Selling your home using conventional methods with a purchase agreement and using a title company or lawyer to settle the sale, (close) is the most common type of home sale. It has nothing to do with being a For Sale By Owner or using a Real Estate agent. If you sell using the land contract method your still have a sale agreement between to parties. What changes ownership is the transfer of property from one person to … (6 comments)
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"Selling Your Home for More Money and Faster". Everybody want to know about the faster part of selling. We went over the first three phases of selling your home. This part 4 of the 7 part series. If you missed any of the steps you can review them quickly by selecting the link to the blog post below.
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