Sellers Info
Selling your home shouldn't be a stressful ordeal. Making the smart move of choosing a REALTOR® is your first step to ensuring that your investment in your home pays off. Our services and experience allow you to focus on your move while WE manage your home sale from our initial consultation to the closing deal, and beyond. OR if you would rather be more involved in the selling of your home, you can save on your sales commission by choosing one of our Listing Options. We pride ourselves on repeat business and hope you'll come to understand why.
What We will do for you
Recent Home Sales
Getting the highest price
Setting the Correct Price for Your Home
Looking at Your House as Merchandise For Sale
Closing Costs
As Your Full Service Agent, We Will:
- Complete a comparative market analysis that will compare your home's value to that of your neighbors.
- Compile a comprehensive marketing plan detailing all the efforts we will employ to sell your home, including Internet and local media.
- Present your home to as many qualified buyers as possible getting your home maximum exposure.
- Help you stage your home and generate curb appeal to ensure you get the highest price.
- Assist with obtaining offers and help you in negotiating the best deal as smoothly as possible.
- Work with the Buyer's Agent in getting your sale closed.
- Help you find your next home and answer all of your questions about the local market area, including schools, neighborhoods, the local economy, and more. Ask about our listing discount when you use us as your Buyer's Agent.
What are homes selling for on your street or in your subdivision? Use Contact usto find out what neighborhood homes are selling for, free of charge. We will not harass you in anyway, just provide you with our services.
Getting the Highest Price for Your Home
Curb appeal is one key and could make a difference whether people stop and take a flyer, or drive right by. Here are a few tips to increase the curb appeal of your home.
Staging your home is also an important factor. Many buyers will stay in your home longer if it's staged appropriately. We have compiled some ideas to present your home in the most effective manner.
Setting the Correct Price for Your Home
The price is what most buyers use to look for their new house when looking on line. This is the first thing a buyer notices about your property. If you set the price incorrectly, then it may miss the search performed by the perfect buyer. There is also a chance of alienating the buyer before they even have a chance of falling in love with your house. Pricing a house too high for the current market is dangerous. Most buyers in today's market have a fairly good idea of what the market values are. You want your house to be taken seriously and the asking price reflects how serious you are about selling your home. Pricing it correctly to begin with strengthens your negotiations.
Several factors contribute to your final pricing decision. First, you need to compare your house to other similar houses on the market in your area. When we do a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA), we use approximately the same method that an appraiser uses when appraising your house for the bank. We are not qualified appraisers, but the method compares your house to similar houses as close to your property as possible. The CMA will reflect the following:
- Houses in your area which sold within the last 6 or 7 months and are of comparable size and features
- the ratio between the asking and selling prices of these houses that sold
- current inventory of houses for sale in the market
- comparable features of each house currently on the market
Also, we try to find out what types of houses are selling and how fast they are selling in your area. Buyers follow trends, and these trends can help you set your price and prepare your home.
We always show you a realistic price range for your home in the current market. Our belief is that overpricing your home just to get your listing will hurt you in the long run. We have a very good record for pricing homes.
Looking at Your House as Merchandise For Sale
As you begin the selling process, it is paramount that you change the way of thinking about your home. We tend to be very emotional about the place we live. It is our home! But now, you want to sell it. You must stop thinking of the address where you live as a home and start thinking about it as a commodity that you are trying to market and sell. Think about it as a house, an investment, an impersonal structure that you live in. You must start looking at your house as a buyer coming to look at your house for the first time. This is difficult, but essential.
The best way to help you start this process is to begin to pack up many of the personal things which have made this structure a home to you. You are going to have to pack them to move, so do it sooner rather than later. Remember, you one of the most important things that you are selling is "space". You want the house to look as large as possible so packing up a lot of the "stuff" that is important to you, and speaks of your personality needs to be done. You want the potential buyer to be able to see themselves living in the house. The things which speak of your personality will make the buyer feel more like a visitor. Take the magnets off the refrigerator, the family pictures off the walls, and pack up your collectibles. (Another reason for doing this is so they don't get broken.)
After you have worked hard at this, go out somewhere and enjoy yourself. When you come back, try to see your house as a buyer would see it. You might then have to so some more. Remind yourself that you are changing your way of thinking of this building.
- Broker's commission is a full-service fee and will cost anywhere between 3.5% to 6%.
- Local property transfer tax or document stamps are the charge that you'll pay for the privilege of selling your home.
- Property Tax is Credited to the buyer of unpaid real estate taxes for the current year or collected at closing to be paid by the attorney. They are variable and depend on when you close and when your taxes are due.
- HOA dues are prorated depending on the time they are due.
- FHA fees and Buyer's closing costs are negotiable between an buyer and seller.
- Home inspections fees are in some circumstances paid for by the seller and can include pest, radon and other inspections.
- Miscellaneous fees can accrue from correcting problems noticed during the home inspection.
- A Home Warranty are often requested by the buyer but are often paid by the seller. It may be advantageous to purchase one at the time of listing so it can cover the property during the selling process. In any case, it is paid at closing.
