Especially when the market is moving briskly, selling your Charlotte home can put you up against a chicken-egg quandary. “Which came first?” is as unanswerable today as when we argued about in the second grade—yet when a key decision about selling your home depends on answering a similar puzzler, it’s anything but whimsical. The metaphor is almost exact. If you know you will be buying a new house but haven’t yet sold your current Charlotte home, which comes first? As for the new purchase, the universally agreed upon best practice for house-hunting is to be able to produce a lender’s preapproval for … (0 comments)
Selling your Charlotte house for the best price sometimes involves a certain amount of luck, but it’s the kind of “luck” that’s a lot more likely when you’ve set out the welcome mat for it. In addition to strategic home preparation and a solid marketing push, selling your Charlotte house for the best price also has to do with where that price starts out: that is, the asking price. Once you have a clear idea of the professional opinion of its market value—that is, a price that aligns with the latest comparable sales data for similar Charlotte homes—you have three alternative … (0 comments)
If you find yourself in a quandary over whether to jump into buying a home now or waiting for a clearer signal that the time is right, there is one method you can use to inject some hard numbers into your decision. It’s called the CTW. CTW stands for “Cost to Wait.” It attempts to approximate the money saved or lost if buying a home today is postponed until a later date. The most reliable CTW calculations are based on what have proved to be the most accurate projections. For this example, we rely on quasi-governmental mortgage guarantor Freddie Mac for interest … (0 comments)
charlotte home: Selling Your Home in Charlotte Calls for Project Restraint
- 01/22/18 12:12 PM
If you are planning on selling your Charlotte home—perhaps as early as this spring—you’ve already begun to give thought to getting it in shape for photography and showings. Some of the most obvious projects will be the most important (cleaning and de-cluttering are among those). You might tackle some of the areas that will require deep cleaning early on, but for the most part, those activities can be scheduled closer to launch: the day when your agent posts your Charlotte listing. On the other hand, there are some projects you can think about … (0 comments)
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