Also true is, those homes with the least repairs the show well are selling first. Also true is, mortgage rates are not going back down, infact they are on the rise. This means more pressure to get the right home at the right price! This also means if you are waiting to purchase a home the one you want may be gone! This is also a great time to list … (1 comments)
selling your home: Sell My House-Wait Maybe Not
- 01/11/13 04:46 AM
Sell My House, Wait Maybe Not how much will I get after everything is deducted? This is a normal reaction by many sellers but it is usually handled at the time of listing. That's why you get a "seller's net sheet", outlining your costs, expenses and net profit when you accept an offer. I have a seller that has been a nickel and dime guy without seeing the big picture. He wants to move because of a two hour daily commute. His wife loves the house, drive buddy I am not moving attitude. Well wouldn't you know I am on the … (4 comments)
selling your home: Selling Your Home for More Money Faster! How Long will it take to Sell?
- 04/14/12 12:22 AM
"Selling Your Home for More Money and Faster". Everybody want to know about the faster part of selling. We went over the first three phases of selling your home. This part 4 of the 7 part series. If you missed any of the steps you can review them quickly by selecting the link to the blog post below. Part 1 of a 7 part series. "Finding the Right Real Estate Agent" "Pricing Your Home to Sell", understanding the competition." "Stage Your Home to Sell Faster", box, pack, stack and store." "How long?" "Making Your Home Squeaky Clean" "Nose Check", no scary smells … (15 comments)
selling your home: Sell your home for More Money Faster! Part 3 Stage Your Home to Sell.
- 04/14/12 12:09 AM
Sell My Home For More Money Faster! Part 1 of a 7 part series. "Finding the Right Real Estate Agent" "Pricing Your Home to Sell", understanding the competition." "Stage Your Home to Sell Faster", box, pack, stack and store. "How long?" "Making Your Home Squeaky Clean" "Nose Check", no scary smells "Price Adjustments that Work", dropping your sell price. Getting your home ready to sell. Once you know how much your home is worth sometimes it is an incentive to get your home listed with a real estate agent quickly and get your home in front of buyers. This may be … (3 comments)
selling your home: Sell My Home for More Money Faster!
- 04/13/12 11:51 PM
Every home seller wants to know how to sell their home for the most money possible in the shortest amount of time! Part 1 of a 7 part series, Selling Your Home for More Money Faster! "Finding the Right Real Estate Agent" "Pricing Your Home to Sell", understanding the competition. "Stage Your Home to Sell Faster", box, pack, stack and store. "How long?" "Making Your Home Squeaky Clean" "Nose Check", no scary smells "Price Adjustments that Work", dropping your sell price. Selling your home for more money faster, may seem like the number one goal of every home seller. Across the … (3 comments)
selling your home: Selling My Aunt's Home
- 03/30/12 10:52 PM
You never know who or what the question may be when you answer a phone call. I have turned my efforts toward internet marketing, with great results. This also has increased area from where phone calls are received. Yesterday I am calling back a young man located hundreds of miles away from my office. I am thinking to myself another referral. I was wrong. It turns out he is selling his Aunt's home. She had passed away accidentally in a boating accident. As I probe with my questions it becomes clear he isn't in a position to sell his Aunt's … (2 comments)
selling your home: Pricing Your Home To Sell 2012!
- 03/09/12 02:06 AM
Considering selling your home but do not have an idea of what sell price to place on your home in the current Grand Rapids real estate market? In the Grand Rapids Real Estate housing market one of the guides to use for sell price analysis is the cost per square foot of a home. This analysis can also be very telling on the current condition of the real estate market. In 2006, before greed turned the housing market upside down, the average price per square foot to build a home was approximately $110.00 in the West Michigan real estate housing market. … (0 comments)
selling your home: Do You Use Video Advertising?
- 02/12/12 12:53 AM
Video Advertising can be very powerful in today's world of cross channel media. Think of attracting clients within your real estate market with targeted advertising that talks to them. Commercials are immediately sniffed out by consumers. A low key, quick video between 45- 2 minutes 30 seconds, solving a problem they might have is dynamite! I just produced a video for my real estate market, Grand Rapids Michigan. I have a series of videos coming out that address the service offered by my company. These videos coincide with the launch of a new website. Making the whole package new for the … (4 comments)
selling your home: Selling Your Home in 12 Easy Steps, Step #12 Negotiations
- 02/06/12 10:05 AM
Negotiating Your Homes Sale, Step #12 Is one of the finale steps before you meet at the title company or lawyers office, depending on your state and method of completing your homes sale. This steps requires some diplomacy and nerve to hold your ground on issues that will not kill the sale, yet will not cost your thousands of dollars. Before inspections in most cases, before the value appraisal comes the purchase agreement to buy your home. Real estate agents have very little contract negotiation training. Agents bring Real Estate agents often do not have Negotiation Skills, they are learned on the job, … (4 comments)
selling your home: Selling Your Home in 12 Easy Steps, Step #11 Open Houses
- 02/04/12 01:34 AM
Selling Your Home, Step #11 Open Houses A few days before your “Open House” go over the home selling steps already covered in this series. Create the right home selling environment for buyers. We will cover how to advertise your home for sale to maximize buyer attendance to your open house. Step #4 Marketing Methods to attract the widest range of buyers that may be Marketing Your Home correctly will help buyer's find Your Home First! interested in your home. Step #5 Property Descriptions, you will not be handing your property descriptions to every buyer that comes through the door, but those interested in … (8 comments)
selling your home: Selling Your Home in Grand Rapids Michigan
- 02/03/12 09:02 AM
Thinking of selling your home in Grand Rapids Michigan? You have a couple of choices when considering selling your home. You can sell your own home or you can hire a real estate sellers agent to sell your home. Selling your home on your own meaning you take on the role of a real estate agent with all the marketing, phone calls, buyer interviews, showing your home along with the paperwork. I am not discouraging you, just pointing out the facts. You can reduce your selling costs if you are willing to put in the hours and money required upfront. Most … (2 comments)
selling your home: 12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home- Step #10 Financing
- 02/03/12 04:49 AM
Selling Your Home Step #10 Financing, helping buyer's, buy! (originally posted on FlexitRealtyBlog) Many times buyers start looking for a home before they have secured financing. This means buyers are looking, dreaming about a new home, without the proven ability to purchase. Unless they have cash, which is rare, buyers will need to discuss lending option with a bank or mortgage broker. Real estate agents representing sellers, know to ask, if the buyers have seen a lender to establish mortgage guidelines. Meaning the buyer knows the maximum lending limit the bank or mortgage company is willing to lend them. The buyer also knows … (5 comments)
selling your home: Sell Your Home in 12 Easy Steps, Step #9
- 02/02/12 02:46 AM
Sell Your Home in 12 easy steps. Step #9 Showing Your Home To Potential Buyers (originally posted on the Flexit Realty Blog) Home Showing is where the difference between a professional real estate agent and a home owner’s become evident. Home owner’s rare have to show their home, unless a quick family or friend tour, as a quest. Showing your home to potential buyers is quite another story. Real Estate Agents are making assessments of the buyer during the meet and greet. They watch their eyes body language and “listen” for comments. In short, agents tune into buyers and their actions. Agent know … (4 comments)
selling your home: Selling Your Home in 12 Easy Steps, Step #8 Photos
- 02/01/12 05:18 AM
12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home “Step #8 “Photos, the visual details to attract buyers” (originally posted on FlexitRealtyblog.com) If you consider the old cliche, “pictures are worth a thousand words”. The saying should be, pictures are worth thousands of dollars, when it comes to selling real estate! “Pictures Equals Buyers”, the real issue is getting your home sold. Photos taken with the right angles, light, clarity and descriptions help sell houses. How many times have you looked for a home on a website or picked up a brochure in front of a home to have one photo? Buyers may or … (2 comments)
selling your home: Housing Price Fall Again, Great Time to Buy and Sell in Grand Rapids Real Estate!
- 01/31/12 09:52 AM
Is it any wonder people are worried about the economy. The only thing happening is bonus money being handed out instead of securing the housing market. Home values are still dropping in many parts of the country. Michigan is included in the dropping home values. Bloomberg along with other reported today the housing index fell again in the top 20 markets. Nobody had to tell homeowners their homes are not worth what they were 3 years ago. The slide in home values started in 2008 we are just entering 2012 and many homeowners are wondering when this will end. Economist … (1 comments)
selling your home: Sell Your Home in 12 Easy Steps
- 01/31/12 08:16 AM
Sell Your Home in 12 Easy Steps, “Step #7”(originally posted on FlexitRealtyBlog.com) Preparing the Inside of Your Home For Sale. We have gone through the outside of your home, now we step inside your home to review and stage it to sell. Most home owners live in their homes and do not maintain the inside of their homes in buyer showing condition. By this, I mean, we enjoy our homes. Magazines, newspapers, books may adorn table tops. Small families and singles that use dishwashers do not run them everyday. The tendency is to have a full load and accumulate a few … (2 comments)
selling your home: 12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home- Step #6
- 01/30/12 03:37 AM
12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home “Step #6 (originally published on Flexit Realty Blog) Preparing the outside of your home for sale. Attracting buyers to your home is one step in the homes selling process. We learned in some of the previous steps that creating the proper website presence creates the opportunity for buyers to find your home. Your website presence, marketed correctly, creates buyer showings. Buyers looking at your home must be converted to personal tours, seeing inside your home, if you are going to sell your home. Before you get the personal tour, many buyers take a drive-by to … (6 comments)
selling your home: 12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home Step #5
- 01/29/12 04:42 AM
12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home (originally published on Flexit Realty Blog) Step #5 Property Descriptions, survey and narrative details Creating your property descriptions, including a survey of the property boundary lines, will help you sell homes faster. Being able to express home information in a narrative to buyers and others during your home selling phase convert home lookers to home buyers! Your selling phase of home selling process is the time before securing a written accepted contract from a buyer to buy your home. You may not have thought too much about property descriptions as being important. This may change … (4 comments)
selling your home: 12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home, Step #4
- 01/28/12 03:45 AM
12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home (originally posted on the FlexitRealtyBlog) “Step #4 Marketing Methods to expose your home to the maximum number of buyers". Many home sellers and agents think, a home for sale listing is completed when the photos are taken and the home has it’s description written and recorded on the local real estate agents MLS (Multiple Listing Service) and the real estate companies website. This is far from the end, this is the beginning of the marketing campaign to promote a home for sale! Real Estate Agents let the MLS spread the word of your home being listed for sale, for them. … (5 comments)
selling your home: 12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home, Step #3
- 01/27/12 03:29 AM
12 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home “Step #3” Originally posted on the FlexitRealty Blog. “Step #3” Deciding to sell you home with a real estate agent or without. For some, the option of using a real estate agent is a real struggle and for others there is no question. A real estate professional is going to handle the sale of their home for them. The Internet has increased home marketing opportunities for real estate agents who understand how to use these resources to reach more home buyers than ever before. Home owners recognize buyer exposure created by the Internet can … (2 comments)
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