Without proper repair and with a lack of curb appeal, your home will definitely make for a slow and disappointing sale. To counteract this, your real estate agent will advise you on addressing these issues so that Buyers will want to buy your home.

• Price your home to sell

Obviously, because your home is such a precious investment, you want the most you can get for it. A common mistake is pricing a home unrealistically. Thus, you should always list your home at a fair market price. There are many factors that influence the price of a home, and they include some of the following characteristics: the location you live in, the type of home you own, square footage, etc. Your real estate agent will account for all these factors so that your home will be appropriately priced to sell.

• Market Your Home

One of the biggest factors that will determine if your home sells quickly will be marketing. Many homeowners attempt to sell their own homes, and they quickly learn that this can be quite the daunting task. It may also be very costly. Signs and electronic marketing will be solely the responsibility of the Seller. And who will make sure that the house is marketing the appropriate way?

When you list with us, you will have signage placed in your yard with contact information on for prospective buyers contact your agent.

Furthermore, when you list with us, your home will gain exposure in the following places on the web:

Multiple Listing Service (MLS) - a proprietary Realtor® sales tool
realtor.com
realestate.yahoo.com
nytimes.com
realestate.com

Also, you will be offered the opportunity to allow us to host open houses for you, which generate traffic for your home and local buzz about it being placed on the market.

• Accept an appropriate offer

Although you may list your home for a certain price, this may not be the price that some buyers are willing to pay for it. Thus, you may have to either hold out for additional offers or accept an offer for an amount that maybe less than what you are asking for. At any rate, your real estate agent will be there to offer realistic advice about what needs to be done in order to obtain an appropriate offer on your home.

• Contract Execution

When you decide to accept an offer that a buyer submits to you, the contract submitted to you will be considered executed. From the time of execution, the option period will begin, and this will be the time that you will be moving forward with getting minor repairs done for the Buyer or taking care of any obligations that you have arranged have done before the option period ends. Upon completion, your home will be sold!

The content herein is only meant to serve as a guideline to prepare you for what the home buying experience will be like. Most often, it can be more challenging or frustrating than what it may seem from the above content. However, DO NOT WORRY, we are here to assist you. If you’re ready to purchase a home, please contact us today!