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These 10 Tips Will Help You Avoid Selling Your Home

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Real Estate Agent with Joe Manausa Real Estate 8508880888

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I have seen so many articles and web sites committed to dispensing sage advice about how to sell a home, so I figured I would take the opposite approach and provide the best advice that homeowners have taught me on how NOT to sell a home.

** Warning ** What you are about to read contains extreme sarcasm and might offend those who do not wish to sell their homes. Move forward at your own risk.

The keys to making sure that a home buyer doesn’t purchase your home are a complex science, perpetrated through “ikey-mikey” see and do education. So, after pondering back across my twenty years in the real estate industry, here is my list on guaranteeing that you continue to own your home, long beyond the time you feel you should have moved.

10 Tips On Failing To Sell A Home

For those of you who have followed the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, you probably already know that 82% of the homes that came on the market in the past year have failed to sell. Of course, I’m referring to the homes listed in the Tallahassee Board of REALTORS® Mulitple Listing Service (MLS). There are also many others that have been placed on the market by For Sale By Owners (FSBOs), and they have a 92% failure rate.

 

Ten Sure-Fire Ways To Fail To Sell Your Home

OK, as I started to think back, I realized I had much more than 10 great tips for people who wanted to fail in selling their home. So I had to do some thinking and choose my top 10, and here they are:

[click to view the top ten sure fire ways to fail in selling your home…]

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Comments(4)

April Solomon
Keller Williams Professionals - Swannanoa, NC
Broker/Realtor/GRI

Joe,

Just read your blog and I think you have hit right on the head.  These are the 10 biggest mistakes that 7 out of 10 home seller's make.  You try and educate them but they know it all because they have sold two or three homes in their lifetime, probably in way better market conditions.  In the market conditions that we have today seller's need all the help they can get and the best way they can do that is to hire a very knowledgable realtor like you and I.

Jul 27, 2009 04:05 AM
Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL
Joe Manausa Real Estate - Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee Real Estate

Thanks April. I suspect education is our best weapon.

Jul 27, 2009 04:50 AM
Leslie Stewart
Oregon Licensed Broker with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Real Estate Professionals - Stayton, OR
Realtor, ABR, CRS, Oregon Licensed Broker

Number 7 and 8 are so true it hurts.  As a seller, you want to sell your home but you do not follow the advice of the broker you hire?  That is defeating your goal.  Good Info!

Jul 27, 2009 07:51 AM
Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL
Joe Manausa Real Estate - Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee Real Estate

Thank you Leslie. My favorite is the "no lockbox!"

Jul 27, 2009 01:08 PM