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8 Tips for selling a home in a buyer's

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Real Estate Agent with Realty One Group Legacy 211360

1. Prepare to be flexible. Don't take it personally if you don't get the price you expected. Accept the facr that the market will set the price.

2. Consider staging your home to make it more appealing. Seek advice from an expert (Interior and or Exterior Decorator, A Stager and or a Real Estate agent with the credentials.

3. Pre inspect your home to avoid surprises. Offer the inspection report to potential Buyers. Take care of the major issues before it goes on the market.

4. Offer a home warranty. Buyers like the security of knowing that the major components will be covered.

5. Pick a Real Estate agent that knows the inventory and can dicuss inteligently the virtues and features of your home versus the competition, and why your home is a better buy.

6. Pricing the home correctly is a key factor. (It always was). In a Buyers market when inventory abounds it is crucial that the pricing be accurate. Seek the help of a professional.

7. Get ready for finicky buyers. The pendulum has turned and it is time for paybacks. If you have procrastinated and it shows, you will pay for it. Fix the items that requiered your attention but you  have been avoiding for a long time.Now is the right time.

8. Consider getting an appraisal done on your home. A great tool for your Real Estate agent to defend pricing issues.

Comments (2)

Sharon Simms
Coastal Properties Group International - Christie's International - Saint Petersburg, FL
St. Petersburg FL - CRS CIPS CLHMS RSPS

I love the finicky and payback! Your comments tie right in with a recent blog of mine where the buyer wanted the house with aluminum wiring rewired.  It not just what the contract says, it boils down to - this is what the buyer wants in order to buy your house.  Are you ok with it or not?

Aug 23, 2006 04:37 AM
Jason Sardi
Auto & Home & Life Insurance throughout North Carolina - Charlotte, NC
Your Agent for Life

This is so important for sellers to know in the current market.  In the recent past, it had been a seller's market, now the role is reversed and prospective sellers need to know what to do to get their home sold as fast & efficient as possible.

 

Aug 25, 2006 09:00 AM