Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog: Seminar Pt 1, The Odds of Selling A South Lake Tahoe House

The Good News is you can, but a South Lake Tahoe House must be priced right to sell.

(Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog / April 27, 2011 / Richard Bolen)

yes, there are odds to consider when selling a South Lake Tahoe house. IWe're certainly not suggesting that selling a house is a game of chance, however, it is something over which every home seller does have complete control.

Every home seller faces a difficult decision, and we would too if we were selling our homes now; the key consideration is, of course, to get as much as possible. If we set the bar too high, or lets put it this way, the higher we set the bar the lower our odds are of a timely, successful sale.

We have discussed much that a home seller ultimately loses money every time they over price a house for sale. In a key sequence in our seminar, we show you in detail that overpricing in today's market has recently costs sellers as much as $50,000 on a $300,000 house.

So price is where a seller has control, and an unreasonable list price, in addition to many dollars, also costs much time. In the video segment here, we look at the odds of selling a South Lake Tahoe house within the context of time, and by understanding competition, demand and monthly absorption rates, a seller can make a decision where he does have control, can increase his odds, and find success.

The video sequence here is from our recent real estate seminar that was held at Lake Tahoe Community College.

Throughout the seminar we also talk much to South Lake Tahoe home buyers. Precisely, we show how to take advantage of current market conditions, which are very much to a buyer's advantage, and we exactly demonstrate the fantastic savings that are inherent in today's historic low interest rates. (It really does mean buy now, or absolutely before interest rates climb, which they absolutely will.)

The seminar was in three parts. This is the twenty-first segment of Part I. You can also find Part I in it's entirety in our Vimeo account here. It is about 56 minutes in length.

The table of contents for the subjects covered in Part I of our seminar follows:

1. Seminar introduction.
2. Seminar structure and themes.
3. Better understanding Real Estate News.
4. A hardheaded Seller named Tom.
5. Putting you in front of the market: the purpose of our real estate seminar.
6. A market reality about selling a house.
7. The Successful v. the Professional Seller.
8. The two forces in every real estate market.
9. South Lake Tahoe median sold prices since 1970.
10. Effects of high end neighborhoods on the South Lake Tahoe real estate market.
11. How much have South Lake Tahoe home values declined?
12. The folly of real estate reporting, and what if baseball were reported like that?
13. The $300,000 South Lake Tahoe house then and now.
14. If you are considering selling now.
15. Housing demand on both sides of our state line.
16. Distressed property sales volume on both sides of our state line.
17. Distressed property sales effect on home values on both sides of our state line.
18. Distressed property sales compared to those that are not.
19. A short sale primer.
20. Summary Distressed Sales and Foreclosure Deluge comment
21. Your odds of selling a South Lake Tahoe house.
22. A look at expired listings, a positive surprise.
23. Selling for the most the quickest.
24. Showing you, not telling, you what the market is.
25. Acceptance of market reality and grief recovery.
26. Summary of market conditions.
27. What successful selling isn't and is.

Other videos about South Lake Tahoe of ours you may enjoy:

Feb 11, 2011: Our Television Commercial for the seminar
Dec 11, 2010: The Lake Tahoe Weather
Dec 9, 2010: How to find and use our Bolero Button… and why you should.
Oct 20, 2010: Bijou Neighborhood video
Sep 28, 2010: A South Lake Tahoe Indian Summer
Sep 23, 2010: Emerald Bay Treetops… and a Bald Eagle
Sep 16, 2010: Walking on Water… South Lake Tahoe Style
Sep 11, 2010: Al Tahoe Neighborhood video