Real estate blog entries tagged with listings by Millie Legenhausen, CRS, GRI, CIPS, MBA (Home & Hearth Realty, Hamden, Connecticut)

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Home : Blogs : Millie Legenhausen, CRS, GRI, CIPS, MBA : Millie's Blog : Tag "listings"

listings: A Primer for Sellers - 01/06/09 03:47 PM

Let's face it, this is a buyer's market. So, how do we deal with dismayed sellers in this economic climate? Education. Sellers hire us because we are real estate experts, and we need to share that expertise at the first meeting with our sellers. Selling a house today is like entering a beauty pagent. Yes, each house has its positive attributes, but it takes a lot more than good looks to move a property right now. Price is king, and you must know all your numbers: comparables, the inventory in the town, how long it takes to sell the average house, the listing to sales price ratio, and the absorbtion … (0 comments)

listings: It is said you have 10 seconds to make a first impression. - 02/15/08 11:25 AM

I say this to every seller I meet. It gets them thinking about making a favorable impression. I walk around the house and yard with them, asking them to play the role of the potential buyer. It can be enlightening - or not. Sometimes sellers will speak with pride about renovations or redecorating they did 40 years ago and how much value that adds to the proprerty. We may have to work with that, so my mantra with sellers is Quality-Order-Serenity.
Quality: It is imperative that everything be in working order, even if it is not modern. I ask sellers to fix all those small things they … (32 comments)

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