This really won’t be a large section since I talked about most of this stuff in discussing how to come to a price. As I wrote before, I tend to price the house at what I feel is a fair price (likewise, when I purchase a home, I offer what I feel is a [...]
Now your house is on the market and you start getting phone calls about it. People have driven by. They’ve taken fliers. Now they want to come and see the inside.
There are a couple of ways you can handle people coming to see your house. If you had a realtor representing [...]
The biggest disadvantage that people that sell their own houses face compared to Realtors is marketing. A realtor has access to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) which is accessed by all other Realtors. They put some of the MLS information on realtor.com and your state’s local MLS, but in order to get all the information you [...]
There are many ways to decide what to ask when selling your home. I’ll go through a few of the most common I’ve seen.
Ask low and hope to have a bidding war
This method has worked really well in recent years. I believe this will only work when it’s a sellers market which it has been in most of the [...]
The biggest mistake that most people make when selling their home, and this doesn’t just apply to people selling their homes on their own even though it’s probably worse for them, is they do nothing more than put their house on the market and wait. You have to remember that this is a competition. You [...]
This is a new blog for me. I’m not new to blogging. I’ve written hundreds of posts on my group blog called The Pentavirate.
I thought an ideal way to start this new blog off was to share some information I’ve learned about selling homes without the use of a real estate agent. In the last [...]