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Selling your home and real estate in Lancaster, PA

By Cal Yoder

Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Elite RM423455

December 05, 2011 12:20 PM

Selling your home and real estate in Lancaster, PA requires several steps to successfully complete the transaction.

· First – Find a trusted Lancaster homes and real estate professional.

· Secondly –Do the best to remove your emotions and view your home from a dispassionate bystander. What looks tired and worn out? How can you cost effectively spruce your place up?

· Thirdly – Prepare your home for sale. Staging your home by getting rid of clutter and depersonalize the space. Consider hiring a professional stager to put your best foot forward.

· Fourthly – Set a realistic sales price. This is the most important thing you will do. Priced correctly, homes and real estate are selling in the Lancaster, PA market.

· Fifthly - discuss the marketing plan with your realtor and begin to market your home. Make sure you find an agent who understands the importance of promoting your home relentlessly on the internet. If your agent spends much time using print ads, you know you are considering the wrong agent.

· Sixthly – Allow the marketplace to speak to you. Are you getting showings, but no offers? No showings? Then you are priced too high. Buyers do not care if you completed $50,000 worth of renovations and you are priced over your competition. The market place sets the worth of a home for sale in Lancaster.

· Seventhly – Sell your home in Lancaster and move onto the next chapter of your life.

Please contact me to learn more about how I can be your Lancaster homes and real estate professional.

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Gabe Sanders

Real Estate of Florida specializing in Martin County Residential Homes, Condos and Land Sales - Stuart, FL

Stuart Florida Real Estate

Great tips for getting a home sold Cal. And, you're the one they should pick!

Dec 04, 2011 11:45 PM

Steve, Joel & Steve A. Chain

Chain Real Estate Investments & Mortgage, Steve & Joel Chain - Cottonwood, CA

Cal,

Great advice; breaking the emotional tie we may have to a home sets the stage for wise decision making and a successful sale.

Steve

Dec 05, 2011 12:56 AM

Cal Yoder

Keller Williams Elite - Lititz, PA

Homes For Sale in Lancaster PA - 717.413.0744

Gabe, I believe it too and I just need to keeping more and more people of that truth. It does begin in my mind though.

Steve, It is our most challenging piece of working with sellers. To get outside of themselves and see their house through the eyes of others and to look at the facts, not the sentimental value. As always, you have great comments.

Cal

Dec 05, 2011 09:21 AM

Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - Wanda Can!

Red Rock Real Estate (435) 632-9374 - St. George, UT

St. George Utah Area Residential Sales Agent

Yes, it's true, being sentimental keeps the house on the market and the market does drive the price! Well done Cal.

Dec 05, 2011 12:27 PM

Tammy Lankford,

Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA

Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

I remember a particular case where sellers were TOO emotional. They turned down a great offer. Months and months and months and months and months passed. They went on vacation. Another offer came and while away having a GREAT vacation they negotiated and accepted an offer. I won't say exactly how many thousands they lost from offer one to offer two, but it was a lot. Taking the emotions out of it is the BEST advice a broker or an agent can give to a seller.

Dec 05, 2011 12:38 PM

Thanks Wanda!

Dec 05, 2011 01:18 PM

Tammy, very amazing and sometimes painful lessons for people who are not able to see the trees from the forest. Thanks for sharing your story.

Dec 05, 2011 10:00 PM

Charles Stallions Real Estate Services

Charles Stallions Real Estate Services Inc - Gulf Breeze, FL

Buyers Agent 800-309-3414 Pace and Gulf Breeze,Fl.

Cal you are the go to guy in Lancaster no doubt, this sounds like a sellers plan good luck and happy selling.

Dec 06, 2011 02:10 PM

Thanks so much Joyce. I just continue to build my online presence and will keep working at lead generation.

Have a great week.

Dec 06, 2011 02:53 PM

Jim Frimmer

HomeSmart Realty West - San Diego, CA

Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist

Ah, emotions..... I was confounded one time when the Sellers' emotions caused them to refuse a sale to some buyers they didn't like and another time because they didn't like the real estate agent. And here I thought it was about money.

Dec 07, 2011 04:57 AM

Kathy Clulow

Uxbridge, ON

Trusted For Experience - Respected For Results

Cal next to an emotional attachment thast soemhow is equated to value the biggest one on your list is those who spent large $$$ on renovations/improvements to make it the home of their dreams and now they want someone to buy/pay for their dreams.

Dec 07, 2011 06:49 AM

It's amazing how many sellers won't listen to the marketplace but that's really the only thing that matters.

Dec 08, 2011 07:14 AM

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