How to net the most $$ when selling your home.

1. Prepare your home to show.  The #1 mistake that consumers (and many Realtors) make is to allow a home to be shown before it is ready. The most Buyers that will ever see a property will see it in the first 3-4 weeks. If the living room needs paint, telling them to come back and see it after it?s painted will not work. Those Buyers are gone. The same goes for giving a carpet allowance instead of replacing a worn or stained carpet. Buyers do not see a $2,000 carpet allowance as being to their advantage. They will almost always over-estimate the costs and inconvenience of simple painting and flooring installation. To compensate, if they do make an offer on your home they?ll often subtract 3-5 times the actual cost of cosmetic updates like carpeting and painting. They?ll take your $2,000 allowance, but will also reduce their offer by $5,000-10,000. Now you?re down $7,000 to $12,000 in net $$$ to you, when the carpet could have been replaced using our wholesale carpet supplier for maybe $1,500! This is just one example of where utilizing our expertise in preparing your home for sale can save you thousands!
   
   
2. Hire someone to market your home. A lot of Realtors practice what we call ?Plant and Pray?. They plant a For Sale sign in the yard and pray for someone else to bring a Buyer. We don?t work that way. Our Listing Specialist has over 25 years in marketing. We believe that when you hire us to market your home we should spend time and money doing just that. We have literally over 50 tools and methods of exposing your home to the market we bring to the table. (That?s about 49 more than most agents.)
   
   
3. Have your inspections done up front!  There?s no reason to wait until your home sells. In fact, there?re lots of reasons not to wait. Even a well-maintained home will have a handful of small issues that turn up during a thorough inspection. If you have the opportunity to deal with them well ahead of the crush of moving out and closing escrow, you can often save money by doing the repairs yourself or you?ll have time to shop for the best price to have them done. You?ll save a lot of stress too. Most inspection companies we deal with will wait until escrow closes for payment.