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Create a Solid Strategy for Selling Your Home

Why hasn’t the home down the block sold yet? Why hasn’t your home sold? These are natural questions that sellers ask themselves when waiting for their home to sell – questions you may have asked yourself.

Staging Services

You want your home to sell quickly, and stylishly staged homes leave a lasting impression. Other sellers in the area are likely using home staging services, and your home will be competing with these homes. Why have your home staged? Many buyers find it hard to envision all of a home’s possibilities. Home stagers take the guessing out of the process. A buyer can easily see themselves coming home after a long day’s work, kicking their shoes off, and relaxing. Seriously consider a home stager.

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Listing Services

Selling a home requires more than placing your home on Craigslist. To compete, new listings have to be placed on the MLS, multiple listing service. This is where your home will get maximum exposure.

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Your agent will likely also put your listing on Trulia, Zillow, and Realtor.com. From there, many real estate agents place your listings on a single property site which means that your home will have its own website.

Price Your House to Sell

This is where many sellers get it wrong. They see what the house down the street sold for and they mistakenly think that they can get as much as their neighbor can. This may be so. At the same time, if your neighbor has made improvements that you haven’t made (like putting in a pool), your home will not sell for the same value. The positive side of this, though, is that your house may be the one with more value because of the granite countertops that you upgraded to.

On our first appointment, we will share with you what homes in your area have sold for and offer tried and true methods that will place your home as a serious contender in your neighborhood. 

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