Home Selling Checklist

It's not an easy job to selling a house. It's a process. You just don't publish your house, meet a buyer, negotiate and sell it, but there is a checklist to sell your house. The home selling checklists include some procedures you must do in the correlation of home selling.

This is the checklist you must pay more attentions to sell your house:

• Decide whether you pay an agent to sell your house or you just do it by yourself. Pay a realty agent gives you a little effort for you to sell your house. An agent will carry out all of business in correlation of your home selling checklist. You just hire an agent and pay him. But it will spend costs of course. So, it's up to you to pay a little effort or bigger one. 
• Be a communicative and informed seller. It is correlated with your promotion strategic. You can use media to promote your home, such as newspaper, pamphlet, DVD, or websites. Don't forget to put the reasonable and proper price for your house. 
• Get your house ready to sell by doing some preparations for your house exterior, interior, and appliances. 
• Decide whether you pay a professional to do pre-listing house inspection or not. 
• Doing some sales of your unnecessary furniture and appliances. 
• Get familiar with financing terms, such as mortgage financing (fixed, adjustable, seller financing, assumable loans), pre-qualified, pre-approved, commitment. 
• Get familiar with negotiation and it stuffs, such as contract, offer, deal, etc. You should learn to do some offer approaching and all correlated with a legal transaction process. 
• Know about what you can improve or not in your house, what you can improve such as interior, exterior and what you can not improve such as location, style, etc. 
• Decide whether you will put a home warranty to your house or not. 
• Find some tips to buy a new house while you have sold your old one. 
• Decide for closing and settlement to a buyer. 
• Making moving plans.

The home selling checklist above shows us that there are some involvements to sell a house. You should pay attention to home selling checklist and do the steps rightly. But if you decide to pay a realty agent to organize your home selling business, just let them carry out the points above. And your involvements in home selling will be decreased.

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Home Selling Guide

Selling home right now can be done by anyone. Support with much information that can be found through the Internet, one person can sell his or her home either by a real estate agents or selling the home by himself or herself. The high technology that you can find anywhere can be a tool for you to sell your home fast and at a reasonable price, etc.

But, whether you want to buy with agents or by yourself, you need some guides in selling home. There are steps in selling your home. Those guides really help you. Never under estimate them because they have lots of impact in your selling home performance.

These are some quick guidance to sell your home:

1.  Preparation; show the very best condition of your home.

Here is the first step to sell your home. Make a best first impression to your buyers so that they are attracted 

to buy your home. Get rid of dirt and rubbish, remove all clutter, repairs all flaws of your home, get rid of unused furniture to make it looks spacious

2.  Pricing your home effectively 

A home that is priced right and reasonable will sell in a short time. You can use a third party service to give suggestion about your home's value and the furniture in it. Don't price too low that it will cost you more money, yet never also set high price that the you will loose your potential buyers.

3.  When To Sell

You also have to know the right time to sell your home. You surely want to sell your home in a good economic condition and strong demand for houses, which tend to be stronger in June and July. If you sell your home at the right time and a good preparation, you will get the highest price of your home than your prediction.

4.  A Bit About The Costs Involved

You should also involved any costs that you have spent in selling your home, whether it is attorney costs, closing costs, advertisements costs, etc

5.  Selling Privately

Selling home by yourself is not as easy as it seems but it is worthy to do because you can save about 2-6% of your selling price. Selling home privately is sure going to take much time and efforts for you to sell it.

6.  Selling At Auction

Selling at an auction can also be an option. But it is not a suggested option because it will cost you more money and also it is a volatile way in selling your home.

7.  Get a real estate lawyer 

You can make the flow of documents so easy and having a professional advice by getting a real estate lawyer in your selling process

8.  Marketing your home

There are many ways to market your home:

· Writing your sell ad

· Home Photos:  a picture can describe a thousand word

· Lawn signs

· Open houses

· Home Brochures/Information sheets

· The MLS (Multiple Listing Service) provided by the agents

· You are your home's best salesman

9.   Negotiating an offer on your home

10. Home inspections 

11. Closing 

These guides will help you to sell your home. Never hesitate to ask for professional advices if you meet some problems while you are in the middle of selling process.

Good luck and have a nice day J

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Getting Your House Ready to Sell

How can a buyer get interest for purchasing your house? Impression is the keyword. You just need to get your house ready to sell by doing some preparation. Get inspected by a professional if you want to pay a little effort for maximum results, or if you don't want to spend much money by paying professional you can do by yourself for getting your house ready to sell.

Now that become a question, how to get your house impressed a buyer? Those are the steps for getting your house ready to sell to a buyer.

Beautify your exterior

What you do is just beautifying. The goal is to make your exterior look pretty and fresh to impress your buyer. Just to inform you that the exterior becomes the first impression to overlook a house. There are two sensory organs of a buyer you must impress. Those are eyes and nose. By bringing the garden homelike condition to your house exterior, making it looked pretty and freshening it up. The steps you can do are:

- Get the grass, trees, flowers, and plants tidy and fresh by mowing and watering it

- Clean up the curb and entering path and put the potted flower in the sides.

- Freshen up the smells by put scented potpourri.

- Clean up all of windows and entering doors.

- Get rid of equipments out of sights.

- Paint the walls if necessary.

Make the Cosy Interior

After buyer got impression from your house exterior, do some simple works to get the cosiness of your house interior. It aims to make a buyer feel homelike buy entering your house. These are the steps:

- Clean up the tile floors; scrub it if there are some bad spots.

- Get rid of spider net from your ceilings.

- Wash the carpets with a fragrant soap.

- Get your furniture placed tidily and gets rid of unnecessary one.

- Brush the closets

- Clean the garage, basement, and attic

- Get the windows opened and clean, it will bring freshness to your house inside

- If you have pets, bath them.

- Put some fresh fragrance in air conditioner.

Repairing and Replacing 

Some Repairing and replacement is necessary to do, if there are some broken furniture, equipment, or appliances. Just check out:

- broken or missing door

- cabinet handles

- ceilings

- ventilation filters

- broken tiles in bathroom and kitchen

- faucet

- wallpaper

- some furniture

Get your friends' opinion

Assume some friends like a buyer, and get some advice and suggestion to make your house get more ready to sell. And the most important thing is your friends feel your home like their own home.

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Home Selling Prices

So you've decided to do some home selling. Congratulations, this is an exciting business you're getting yourself into. Whether it's selling your parents' house, your aunts', your close friend's, or even your own home, there are some things to consider before you can start marketing the house. One of which is how to set the price. 

It's really important to take time before you finalize your home selling prices. If the price is too high, the home will stay in the market for too long, waiting for someone who can afford it. Even if you chose to reduce the price later, it would show the potential buyers that even the seller realize that the home selling price was too high (and probably still is). But if the price is too low, this would easily sell but eventually brings damages to the sellers' net expectation!

If you're selling your own home, the chances are you're going to want to set the price as high as possible. This might seem like an obviously silly thing to do, but it happens to a lot of people who either cherish their house too much, or are simply not aware of the real value. 

The first case is a lot easier to handle. Remember that apart from the location, your home selling price is a major consideration in purchasing. So no matter how much you love your house, try to set a realistic price. Some things that might decrease (or increase) your home selling price are as follows:

a. Location. Sorry, this one's a definite. A home in a more desirable area will cost more than less desirable ones.

b. House condition. A good maintenance shows that this home is worth being looked after.

c. Surroundings. Check out schools around the house and their quality. See how the weather would take effect. Watch those pesky neighbors. These things, though seemingly miscellaneous, applies to buyers and can affect the overall home selling price.

d. Extra features. Does the house own something the market is demanding? Does your home have a pool or a beautiful patio? Don't hesitate in taking them into account of setting the price. Be realistic, though – a dusty, never-used fireplace, no matter how classy, will do nothing to your home value.

The second case – where you're not sure of your house's value – is a bit more difficult. You might want to read some home selling advertisements to see the price of the houses similar to the one you're selling. 

To help you finish off with an ideal home selling price, some standardized methods of price setting have been established. A Comparable Market Analysis (CMA) is "a comparison of similar properties in the same general area that compares actual sold prices", in other words, comparing your house to similar ones to get a rough value. Nowadays Real Estate Agents can do CMA for you, and you can even do it yourself by the help of some websites.

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Getting Your House Ready to Sell

How can a buyer get interest for purchasing your house? Impression is the keyword. You just need to get your house ready to sell by doing some preparation. Get inspected by a professional if you want to pay a little effort for maximum results, or if you don't want to spend much money by paying professional you can do by yourself for getting your house ready to sell.

Now that become a question, how to get your house impressed a buyer? Those are the steps for getting your house ready to sell to a buyer.

Beautify your exterior

What you do is just beautifying. The goal is to make your exterior look pretty and fresh to impress your buyer. Just to inform you that the exterior becomes the first impression to overlook a house. There are two sensory organs of a buyer you must impress. Those are eyes and nose. By bringing the garden homelike condition to your house exterior, making it looked pretty and freshening it up. 

The steps you can do are:

- Get the grass, trees, flowers, and plants tidy and fresh by mowing and watering it

- Clean up the curb and entering path and put the potted flower in the sides.

- Freshen up the smells by put scented potpourri.

- Clean up all of windows and entering doors.

- Get rid of equipments out of sights.

- Paint the walls if necessary.

Make the Cosy Interior

After buyer got impression from your house exterior, do some simple works to get the cosiness of your house interior. It aims to make a buyer feel homelike buy entering your house. 

These are the steps:

- Clean up the tile floors; scrub it if there are some bad spots.

- Get rid of spider net from your ceilings.

- Wash the carpets with a fragrant soap.

- Get your furniture placed tidily and gets rid of unnecessary one.

- Brush the closets

- Clean the garage, basement, and attic

- Get the windows opened and clean, it will bring freshness to your house inside

- If you have pets, bath them.

- Put some fresh fragrance in air conditioner.

Repairing and Replacing 

Some Repairing and replacement is necessary to do, if there are some broken furniture, equipment, or appliances. Just check out:

- broken or missing door

- cabinet handles

- ceilings

- ventilation filters

- broken tiles in bathroom and kitchen

- faucet

- wallpaper

- some furniture

Get your friends' opinion

Assume some friends like a buyer, and get some advice and suggestion to make your house get more ready to sell. And the most important thing is your friends feel your home like their own home.

Read More