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Remain Flexible to Sell Your House Faster

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By Bigg Success Staff
04-15-08

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As we’ve said before, we highly recommend that you sell your house through a qualified realtor. They will help you sell your house faster than it otherwise would.

As part of listing your house for sale, discuss contingency plans with your realtor. Specifically, discuss “what if”. Here are a few scenarios you may consider, depending on the circumstances at the time you list your house for sale:

  • What if enough people aren’t looking at it?
  • What if it doesn’t sell by a certain time?
  • What if the whole market is weak?
  • What if financing is tough to get?

Answering these questions upfront helps you plan logically. If you wait until you’re into the sales process to think about them, you may respond emotionally and against your best interests.

You should also discuss these alternatives, as well as new possibilities, as part of your 505 weekly report from your realtor].  He or she may suggest that you drop your price, offer an additional incentive to the buyers, spruce something up, and more.

These things may entice more people to look at your house and the more people who look at it, the more likely one of them will buy it. It is definitely a numbers game!

Your house is likely to sell faster if you listen to your realtor’s advice and remain flexible. As you gain new insight into market conditions, you can adapt your offering to find the buyer you need. 

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Insist on a Weekly Report Before You List Your House with a Realtor

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By Bigg Success Staff
04-07-08

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You’ve listed your house for sale with a realtor. Days, even weeks, have gone by with no apparent interest in your house. You start to get anxious. What’s going on?

So you call your realtor. He or she tells you what’s being done to market your house. You discuss some alternatives. You hang up your phone and you feel better.

But in a few days, you still don’t see any potential buyers so you call again. Is your realtor doing anything? So you call your realtor again. And once again, after talking with him or her, you feel better about what’s being done to move your house.

Then a few days later … well, you get the picture!

There’s a better way – insist on a weekly report before you list your property with your realtor.

4 Pointers for the Report

Short
You don’t need a detailed written report from your realtor. After all, you want him or her focusing on finding buyers, not talking to you! However, your realtor should be able to get you up-to-speed on what’s going on in a few minutes.

Form
Agree to how the report will be delivered. It can be a phone call or an e-mail. See what your realtor prefers. If it’s a phone call, take notes and e-mail them to your realtor for review to make sure you accurately understood what was said.

Activities
You want to know what’s been done to market your product. Get a feeling for the number of times your house has been shown, any comments that were made, and any suggestions your realtor may have now.

Alternatives
Your contact with your realtor should conclude by discussing your alternatives. We’ll discuss this more in our next article on selling your house.

Getting a weekly report from your realtor serves two purposes:

  • It keeps your realtor accountable
  • It keeps you from bugging them too much!

You’ll feel less stress if you communicate regularly with your realtor. You may also be able to make some adjustments as new information becomes available.

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4 Things-to-Do Before Listing Your House for Sale

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By Bigg Success Staff
03-17-08

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You want to sell your house. As we’ve said before, we highly recommend that you 290 hire a good realtor] to help you through the process. Among other things, they are a great resource for 313 determining your asking price].

No house is perfect. A reasonable buyer won’t expect yours to be. However, with the counsel of your realtor, there are things you can do to increase the likelihood that your house sells sooner rather than later for more rather than less.

Here are four things you should do before listing your house for sale.

#1 – Get a professional inspection
Chances are high that your buyer will want an inspection. So be proactive and get one before you take your house to market. Talk to your realtor to see which, if any, repairs you should do before you list it.

Your buyer will take comfort in knowing that an inspection has already been done. You’ll have receipts for work that you’ve already completed. Then your inspection report can be a marketing tool.

#2 – Make cosmetic improvements
Talk with your realtor about the aesthetic changes you should make. Minor things – like a fresh coat of paint, fashionable window treatments, refaced cabinets, or refinished bathtubs – often make a huge difference.

If you can’t do the work yourself and don’t know someone, ask your realtor for a referral. They’ll almost certainly have a stable of people with whom they regularly work.

#3 – Clean it
When you bring it to market, your house should be cleaner than it ever has before. Remember cleaning your apartment to get your security deposit back? That’s not good enough!

Simply stated, the cleaner your house, the better it will show. If you don’t want to do it yourself, pay someone to do it. Your realtor can help you find a good cleaning company, if you don’t know one. 

#4 – Stage it
Discuss staging with your realtor. If you’ll be moving out of the house before putting it on the market, you may want to work with a professional staging firm. If you’ll continue to live in the home while it’s on the market, you may do some minor redecoration. For example, you may want to remove photos of your family so potential buyers can picture their family in the house

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