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Our Selling Process

If you are a property owner and are ready to sell your home then you will want to speak with us about our real estate services. In short, we are a full service real estate company that provides a detailed Market Analysis, develops an advertising strategy for the sale of your property, negotiates the transaction process and follows through with the details of the transaction. When you request an appointment, we will come to your home or office to explain our process and give you our guarantee. If after that meeting, you and our company find it to be mutually benefical to proceed, we will move forward with the necessary contracts, market analysis, and advertising strategy to get your property sold. We look forward to hearing from you!

Your home is a product make it a house again

When you get ready to put your house on the market, most of your work as a seller is done up front. Your home no matter how long you have lived there has memories. The good news is all of the special memories are moving with you! Your home is becoming a house. This change is difficult for some people however; if you really want to move you must put in effort in order for your home to compete in the marketplace. When your home becomes a housing product it must also be priced right, and it must look better than the other houses on the market. Unlike decorating where the goal is to reflect the owner's taste, the whole point of "staging" a home is to depersonalize a house so that it could be "anyone's" house. You want prospective buyers to imagine that it's their house. Clean your home and then clean it again. If you don't want to do it or don't have time hire a crew. A clean house makes a big difference! Clean widows let the sun shine in and when the buyer drives by at night the house will glow! Open your curtains or if they are out of date, remove them altogether. You hear the term "de-clutter" but what does that really mean? Go into every room and remove every picture, nick-knack, box of stuff, baskets etc. from view. Then take two or three special items and place them back in each room. All the other items... if you are not taking them with you leave them in the box and donate them! Update your bathrooms by replacing that fun, crazy, wild shower curtain with a fresh neutral rug, toilet seat cover, bath towels and new shower curtain. You will be glad you did!

There's one chance for a Great First Impression!

Give your guests a great first impression with a foyer that shows off your home's personality. Take a good look at the area surrounding your front door. Many times the "front door" entrance is neglected. Make sure the area is tidy (no forgotten toys behind the bushes), freshen the front door and porch railings with a coat of paint and change out the lighting fixture if it's broken or desperately outdated. Add a potted plant or two and go with miniature varieties of common evergreens like juniper or boxwood for year-round color (and less maintenance). Great first impressions include organized cupboards and closets. Time for a clean up and some organization! Make it look like a magazine!

Home Notebook

Since you have been cleaning and de-cluttering, I bet you have run across manuals, receipts for home improvements, and probably some old photos. Tuck these in a notebook and when all is complete give it to me and we'll make an information book specifically about your home. This is invaluable tool for answering questions about the home, property and exactly what and when was done.

Home Inspection ~ Part of the Process

When you get an offer on your home and you and the buyer agree to the price the next "traditional" step is for the buyer to hire a professional home inspector. That home inspector will go through a detailed checklist of all the components of your home. The inspector will evaluate the life left in your home and identify what needs correction and what is working well. Do you know the condition and life of your house? Remember when you bought the house and got the list of "things to do" from the home inspector... Are those things done? Or did you buy your home so long ago the profession of "home inspection" was not established? In either case, it is smart to have a home inspection completed BEFORE it is placed on the market rather than wait for a buyer to come along only to find out the buyers don't want the house because the repairs are too expensive and send the house out of their price range or they guess at how much it will cost and ask you to reduce you price by that amount of money. What strategy will you decide to implement?

What is an Appraisal?

Have you ever heard someone talking at a party and said their property was recently appraised and the appraisal came in low but the market rate will be much higher? This is interesting because the same techniques used in the appraising profession are very similar to the "Comparative Market Analysis" that is typically done by Real Estate Agents. An appraisal is a professional opinion of value of a piece of property on that particular day, and is only valid for that point in time. Many factors influence value including, the economy, the condition of the house, the size of the home and the location. Would you like to have a professional opinion of value before the marketing of your home begins or wait until the buyer's bank determines whether or not the property is worth what the buyer offered to pay?

The "Closing"

Here's a checklist of things to do during your final week in your old house: Schedule final utility meter readings for day of closing, including:

• Gas/fuel-oil;
• Electricity;
• Water/sewer
• Visit the post office and arrange for mail to be forwarded to your new address
• Cancel subscriptions (ie. cable, telephone, garbage & home insurance)
• Pack up all your personal belongings
• Pick up a written copy of your estimated closing costs. Are the fees correct?
• Gather all the documents you are expected to bring to the closing.
• Leave house broom swept

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