Category: For Sellers
Your Home Is Not Selling?
Now that a home I recently listed has been on the market about six weeks and has not yet gone under contract, I decided to make a visit with the homeowners and discuss options to get it SOLD. I discovered that some of the de-cluttering suggestions I’d made upon listing the home had not been [...]
Homes are selling like hotcakes!
We made THE LIST!! We already know this because business in OKC is booming but here’s proof: Business Insider says we’re in the top 25 of fastest selling homes Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell [...]
RE/MAX #1 in Real Estate Sales
RE/MAX has been the #1 seller of real estate in the world for a number of years. They recently created a new logo and videos that tout this fact. RE/MAX has become #1 because agents with RE/MAX in general have more experience. Their requirements for agents are high so only the top agents migrate to [...]
For Sale By Owner King uses broker to sell home?
OOPS! A funny story just ran in the Wall Street Journal about the founder of ForSalebyOwner.com Colby Sambrotto using a real estate agent to sell his condo in New York City. It seems Mr. Sambrotto tried using the techniques he expounds to readers on his web site to sell his own property, but his efforts [...]
eBay and Selling your home – what do they have in common?
Selling on eBay is all about reputation. As you sell on eBay you receive positive – or possibly negative – comments about each transaction. Your reputation as a seller is right out there for everyone to see, and a poor reputation means your ebay sales will be non-existent. After having sold hundreds of items on [...]
Showing Your Home
Once your house is listed you can expect Kay as well as other Realtors to begin showing your home to prospective buyers. When your home is shown, you want to engage the buyer emotionally, since the decision to buy a home is based more on emotions than on logic. Give the buyer a reason to [...]
Pricing Your Home for Top Dollar
Pricing Your Property Is A Balancing Act Pricing your home unrealistically high does NOT mean you will get the highest price for your home. On the contrary, pricing your home too high typically means you end up selling it for LESS! Pricing your home is a balancing act. On the one hand, you want to [...]
Preparing Your Home for Sale
Staging your Home for Sale According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), properly "staged" homes sell 50% faster and sell for 6% to 10% more than non-staged homes. What is "staging? It is the preparation of a home for sale, normally by a professional who specializes in staging. While preparing your home for sale [...]
How Your Home is Viewed
Be Realistic When Pricing Your Home There is no denying that the same home can be viewed differently by different people. While you are proud of your home and the improvements you have made, others might not be quite so fond or necessarily notice the improvements, or the improvements might not be important to them. [...]
Marketing Your Home
More Than Just MLS Marketing your home requires more than just creating a flyer and putting your listing on the local MLS. I believe that marketing your home requires a multi-pronged approach – using print, Internet, social media, and email to reach the right buyer. Buyers have differing needs, and the challenge in selling your [...]