Free home selling tips

Home Selling Tips

For a Smarter Home Sale

Selling your home is an infrequent occurrence

That’s no reason to be in the dark

Here are some tips

To ensure your hard-earned equity...

...ends up

in your

bank

account

1 Never Pay for a Pre-listing Home

Inspection

Some real estate agents will try to convince you to pay

for a pre-listing home inspection in the hope that you

will fix any problems that it uncovers. Fixing all the

problems certainly makes the agent’s job of selling your

home easier.

Unfortunately, a pre-listing home inspection can never

save you money—it can only cost you money. Save

your money and let the buyer pay for it. After all, it

benefits them to find hidden problems, not you.

2 Do Pay for Professional

Photography

One of the two keys to selling your home quickly and for

top dollar today is to have beautiful photographs. It is

the difference between having four families at your

open house and forty.

A professional real estate photographer will run you

between $100 and $200 and it is one of the best

investments you can make when it comes time to sell.

3 Do Pay for a Professional

Appraisal

The other key to selling your home quickly and for top

dollar is to price it right. And you cannot price your

home right without knowing its appraised value.

Can’t you just use a real estate agent’s estimate? No.

Unlike agent estimates, a professional appraisal is an

actual number a bank will use to decide how much

money to lend on your home.

4 You Will Sell Your Home for Top

Dollar by Underpricing it Slightly

The best way to sell your home for top dollar is to get a

bidding war going amongst interested buyers, and the

best way to do that is to underprice your home slightly.

Buyers want a deal, so underpricing it will get more of

them to submit an offer, and buyers are more likely to

increase their bid once they have emotionally committed

to buying your home.

5 If You Already Have a Buyer, Do

Not Hire a Real Estate Agent

If you already have a buyer for your home and the two

of you have agreed on the price, there is no reason to

hire a real estate agent.

Instead, hire a real estate attorney and pay them by the

hour to help you navigate the paperwork and the

escrow process. There is no need to pay a sales

commission.

6 Never Do Requested Home Repairs

The buyer of your home is going to request that you

make some repairs to your home. It’s no big deal, all

buyers do. The trick is to not actually do the repairs.

Once you decide on what repairs you agree are

reasonable, rather than doing the repairs yourself,

simply offer the buyer a cash credit so they can do the

repairs. This way if the repair is not done satisfactorily,

it’s their headache not yours.

So, now

that you

know

these

tips

How would you like to learn a few more?

At a FREE mini course called…

Introduction to

The Intelligent Home Seller

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I’m Carl Weisman and

I help home sellers preserve their hard-earned equity

Why do I do that?

I’m sick and tired of home sellers being intimidated into

squandering away their equity due to an abundance of fear and a

lack of education