Depersonalize Your Home to Sell Fast

Is your home "Fit to Sell"? Learn how to "depersonalize" your home so that buyers will notice your home and not your "stuff". Emotionally Disconnect from Your Home Once you have made the decision to sell your home here in central Oklahoma, the next step is to emotionally disconnect yourself from your home. You may have lived in your home for years and have it decorated to your personal taste, but that does not necessarily mean that your taste is the taste of potential buyers. Many sellers have a difficult time stepping back and looking at their home with an unfamiliar eye. That is where I … Continue reading...

Staging Your Home to Sell Fast

stage your home to help it sell fast

Preparing your home for sale - often called staging - is critical to get the best price in the shortest amount of time. While some buyers choose professionals to help stage their home, anyone can stage a home with the right mindset and eye for detail. Selling Your Home is Like Selling Your Car Think of selling your home like you would selling your car. You wouldn't take your car to the dealer covered in mud with the floor covered in candy wrapper and Sonic cups and expect to get the best price. To get top dollar for your car you would wash the exterior, vacuum the floorboards, polish the … Continue reading...

Preparing Your Home for Sale

There are several steps you can do to your home to get it ready to sell. Most of these are fairly simple, but can have a big impact on both the sales price of your home, and how long it takes to sell. We sell hundreds of homes each year and we consistently see the positive reactions of buyers when they walk into a properly prepared home that is ready for sale. Make an Entrance You know the saying: You never have a second chance to make a first impression. The outside of your home is the first thing potential buyers see. And like it or not, the outside speaks volumes about what's inside - and … Continue reading...

Home Staging Interview

When selling your home, I often recommend that you hire a professional stager to prepare your home for sale. A professional stager will look at your home from the eyes of a potential buyer, and then accentuate the features of your home so that buyers can see themselves in your home rather than you in your home. This often requires decluttering and depersonalizing your home. In this video I interview Kathy Swan, a professional home stager with Two Swans Staging, who has worked with me for several years on a variety of homes. I have seen it time and time again how a well staged home will … Continue reading...

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 done.  There is a lot of work and research that goes into determining a home's value in this market.  Even though an appropriate sales price is determined after reviewing the recently sold comparable properties, the local housing market has the final say on the price. If a listed home is being "passed … Continue reading...

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 fell flat. Eventually Sambrotto hired a licensed New York real estate agent to sell his own property, paying the standard 6% commission. The agent, Jesse Buckler, told Mr Sambrotto the apartment was priced too low and wasn't drawing the right buyers! In just a few weeks Buckler had the … Continue reading...

Home Staging

Professional home stagers are practiced in the art of preparing a home for sale. They help homeowners eliminate clutter, edit and arrange furniture, and help to create a great first impression when a potential buyer walks through the door. Yet staging is more about moving furniture and hanging pictures. It is about the art of creating moods. Staging makes your house look bigger, brighter, cleaner, warmer, and best of all, makes home buyers want your home. Staging is what you do after you've cleaned, de-cluttered, painted and made minor repairs; it's all about dressing the house for … Continue reading...