how to sell your home: 5 Tips For A Top Home Selling Plan
- 03/07/19 07:36 AM
When you start talking about selling your home, you’ll start to hear plenty of opinions on the best way to get your home sold. Even real estate agents will give you different ideas on the best plan to sell a home fast and for top dollar.
With so many strategies out there, how do you ensure that you use the best approach when it comes time to sell? In my opinion, too many agents and sellers are utilizing out-dated solutions and failing to reach all of today’s technology-enabled homebuyers. Consider the five tips below prior to putting your house up for sale … (0 comments)
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how to sell your home: How To Select The Best Offer For Your Home
- 02/19/19 01:27 PM
There are more homebuyers than homes currently for sale in today’s market. As a result, it is likely that home sellers will wind up with a multiple offer situation when putting their house up for sale. Accepting the highest offer seems like the easy choice, but it may not always be the best thing to do. Below, I’ve discussed other important considerations when it comes to accepting an offer from a homebuyer.
Pre-Qualified And Pre-Approved Homebuyers
The majority of offers will include a letter from a financial institution specifying that a homebuyer is either pre-qualified or pre-approved for a mortgage loan. Don’t be … (4 comments)
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how to sell your home: What A Big Green Egg Can Teach You About Selling A Home
- 10/11/11 03:02 AM
Michelle and I recently moved our family "in-town," so as to be closer to the things that we do so often, like school, ballet, basketball, football, baseball, etc. The move has reduced our drive times very nicely, so we have more time to work and play. As with most families, the move created new needs that required filling, and I was/am in charge of the family grill.
Our past home had a nice natural gas grill, but I decided to do some research before getting the next family grill. We love our grilling at the Manausa house, so I decided to … (2 comments)
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how to sell your home: The Gravity Of The Underwater Home Situation Is Growing
- 06/13/11 01:01 AM
Are you under water in your house? You might be surprised at just how many homes in Tallahassee have larger debt loads than their value. This topic came up in a comment made by a reader last week, so I thought it was worth further exploration.
When we say that a house is under water, all this means is that the owner owes more money on the house than could be gained through a sale. So just how do we estimate the number of underwater homes in Tallahassee?
Last week, a regular contributor “Patrick” commented:
I’ve been watching your recent charts … (68 comments)
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how to sell your home: The 4 Options Every Home Seller Has Today
- 04/04/11 01:54 AM
Home sellers are facing tough choices today, as the majority of homes listed for sale over the past year have failed to sell. The decision that they must make is no different today than it was during the boom market, it's just not nearly so easy.
Four Choices For Home Sellers Stay In The Home Sell The Home Lease The Home To Tenants Abandon The Home You might be facing this decision now (or soon) due to a change in jobs, a change in your family, or perhaps a different life-altering event, and you should know that you have options. It's … (8 comments)
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how to sell your home: The Surprising Importance Of The Real Estate Agent Website
- 03/23/11 11:15 PM
Choose your real estate agent wisely if you have a home to sell, as you might just be shocked at how few agents are able to get a home sold in this housing market. There are over 100 solid real estate agents in Tallahassee who are selling multiple homes each month, but the fact is there are thousands of real estate agents who are licensed to sell real estate in Tallahassee! Just doing the quick math in your head should have you come up with some very sorry statistics.
First things first, hire a REALTOR®. Just because somebody is licensed to … (4 comments)
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how to sell your home: Avoid The 5 Prolific Home Selling Mistakes
- 10/14/10 01:37 AM
I was working to improve upon my Progressive Marketing Plan for selling a home when it dawned on me that I am seeing the same home selling mistakes being repeated all the time by the “Failed To Sell” group of homeowners in the Tallahassee real estate market.
So I got out a pen and paper and started taking notes, and the results were a consistent repetition of what I will call the “5 most common home selling mistakes.” Day in and day out I talk to frustrated homeowners who have spent the past six to twelve months languishing on the … (2 comments)
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how to sell your home: Marketing 101 For Home Sellers
- 10/07/10 03:00 AM
Listen up wanna-be home sellers, because this is how WE will sell your home. No, I don’t have a problem with my “Caps Lock” button on the keyboard, I just wanted to emphasize that selling a home is not a “Me” thing, or a “You” thing, rather it is “We” thing.
If you want to sell your home, you have to understand who plays what rolls. This is obviously not well known, as roughly 60% of the homes listed over the past year failed to sell, so pay close attention and it won’t happen to you!
The title “how WE … (4 comments)
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how to sell your home: Are You Tracking The Home Sales Success Rate In Your Market?
- 09/07/10 11:47 PM
One statistic that we track here on a very regular basis is something that we refer to as the Home Sales Success Rate. Every day we track each home that enters and leaves the market, and then we sort out what has occurred. For the homes leaving the market, we determine whether they left successfully (by being sold), or whether they failed (the listing expired, was canceled, or was withdrawn). By dividing the two into the whole, we can then determine the success rate (and failure rate) of Tallahassee home sellers.
Home Sales Success Rate Is Dropping The home sales success … (4 comments)
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how to sell your home: The Role Of Today's Home Seller Is Critical
- 08/26/10 02:19 AM
When a home seller hires a real estate company for the job of selling a home, they often feel like their work is done and all they have to do is sit back and let the REALTOR® take over. And as much as we would like to be able to provide this level of service, there are just too many things that fall under the heading of “seller’s job” that require the seller to play their role in the sale of a home.
As you might expect, a great real estate company will extensively market the home across the internet. … (6 comments)
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how to sell your home: Cynical Home Seller Wants To Know Best Asking Price
- 07/20/10 02:04 AM
Recently, we received a reader question regarding how to set the asking price for a home. The question stemmed from the blog titled Why Real Estate Is Always A Sellers Market, where “Robert S.” asked:
Not to be overly cynical, but wouldn’t a realtor in a slow market be anxious to convince sellers to list houses for less than they are worth, since some commission is better than no commission?
First of all, I do not believe this is a cynical shot at what I wrote, rather it is a perfectly reasonable and fair question to ask. After all, … (4 comments)
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how to sell your home: Home Buyers Begin With Price Range
- 03/30/10 12:38 AM
Home sellers need to have a solid feel for what home buyers are doing when they search for a home to buy. The use of the internet by home buyers continues to increase and the National Association of REALTORS® Annual Survey of Home Buyers showed that 94% of home buyers used the internet in their home buying process.
Home Buyers Begin With Price Range If you ever sit down to use a home search tool, like the Tallahassee MLS Property Search, you will quickly realize that the easiest way to restrict the number of results in your search is to put … (6 comments)
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how to sell your home: Home Seller Success Report
- 03/13/10 12:44 AM
Home sellers are finding more success today than they have for the past two years. By tracking the total number of home sales in Tallahassee, and dividing them by the total number of listings during the same period of time, we are able to track a measurement that we refer to as the "Home Sales Success Rate."
Currently, the 365 day trend of the home sales success rate has hit 47%, up from a low of 35% found roughly one year ago. In the real estate graph below, the blue field shows the one year trend measurement, while the red, green … (0 comments)
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how to sell your home: 3 Big Keys To Selling Your Home In 2010
- 01/06/10 11:26 PM
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If you have decided that you must sell a home in 2010, then I recommend that you prepare yourself for a successful (ad)venture. You see, right now, nearly 80% of homeowners who decided to sell their home over the past year failed (they still own the home), but you do not have to be like them.
I would encourage you to prepare a successful … (2 comments)
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how to sell your home: Home Sellers Advised To Get Out!
- 12/16/09 11:40 PM
One issue that comes up invariably when we are sharing home selling tips with property owners has to do with buyer viewings. Many home owners request to “be present” when potential buyers are looking at the home.
While there are many understandable reasons why a home seller would request this, we make it very clear that they need to be gone during a property showing.
Objections Are A Part Of the Home Selling Process What many people (who do not sell for a living) don’t understand is that buyer objections are the real start of the selling process. They are … (8 comments)
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When you start talking about selling your home, you’ll start to hear plenty of opinions on the best way to get your home sold. Even real estate agents will give you different ideas on the best plan to sell a home fast and for top dollar.
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