Showing Your House to Home Buyers

Showing Your House to Home Buyers

This is it. The icing to your cake. The moment you’ve been waiting for ever since you decide to sell your home. The price is right, the marketing is going well, and you watch with enthusiasm as the response started coming: the home buyers are coming! It’s now time to take your marketing to the next level: house showings. How are you preparing for it? You’ve inspected, checked and cleaned your house thoroughly.

You made sure everything’s in place, or if they’re not, in the most ideal place to be shown. Showings are, after all, the chance to impress the home buyers by flaunting everything your house has.

Now relax. Showing your house to home buyers is especially easy when you’re trying to sell your own house by yourself. This is a good opportunity to get personal – homebuyers would want to see more than just the house they saw in the advertisement picture.

As you move throughout the house, pay special attention to objects that created some memories during your stay. Things like “My father does this beautiful carving when he was 18” will add some personal note to your home. And while you’re on the business of using your family, don’t hesitate to let your family members take part. Assign jobs for them in advance for emergencies or short-notice showings.

You want the home buyer’s full attention on your house. But at the same time you want some elements on your house to be insignificant enough to provide a comfortable environment. Make sure the house is well aired and lighted by opening windows (during possible weathers) and positioning all the coverings to show maximum sunlight.

A dark house, especially when it’s a big house, will create the effect of gloom and depression; not exactly the kind of house you’d buy.

During those times when you’re forced to keep all your windows shut, make sure the air inside your house is in good, clean condition. Some homeowners will bake cookies to keep that “fresh” air hanging, but if you’re not keen on taking it that far, just be sure to wipe out any pet / bathroom odors or smoke. In house showings, the air should do what it needs to do – allows human to breathe – and do nothing more.

Having a pet around is highly discouraged. No matter how well behaved they are, or how much the homebuyers may love them, it’s not a good idea to bring out your animal. God knows what kind of behaviour they can suddenly break into in front of your guests!

Last of all, if an agent is showing your house to home buyers, try as hard as you can not to be at home. Homebuyers tend to feel like intruders when they’re checking details of a house with its owners watching.

Quick sell tips

Quick sell tips

Often wonder why some houses can have a number of showings after its first week on the market, and similar ones seems to be left with no attention? A quick sell of a house is common enough to be expected by home sellers, but rare enough to remain a phenomenon in the market.

It’s really a question of readiness – the houses being sold quickly are more well prepared to accept a new resident. Surely price and location is the major reason a house can appeal to home buyers, but there’s also more than meets the buyer’s eye. Here are some quick sell tips to make sure your house reaches that contract as soon as possible.

(a) Get a top-quality, state-of-the-art real estate agent. Sounds obvious, but the better qualified your agent is, the more experienced they are and the more guarantee that your house can be a quick sell.

(b) Play the role of a buyer. Observe your house in the eye of a potential customer. Is there anything you see that makes you think “This is good, but it looks like they’re still working on that...”? Ask your friends or neighbours to do the same if necessary.

(c) There’s one sure-fire tip to get your house quickly noticed, and that’s putting out the heaviest advertising campaign you can manage. So many houses are being sold daily, how do you make sure the buyers would even see your home? Quick selling houses are results of excellent marketing skills.

(d) Offer incentives. When it’s time to take any means necessary, start negotiating extra perks to your buyers to lure them even more. A closing-cost help, for example, would motivate the buyers to speed up the decision to buying your house.

(e) When all else fails, and you’re starting to get really desperate, you might want to try renting your house. Afraid of never getting it off your back? Discuss with the renters that your initial need is to sell the house. A rented house with an option to buy is also a good idea
Some would tell you that quick sells are by means of luck. Though this is inevitably true, waiting for luck will do nothing to speed up the process. Preparation, preparation, and preparation are the three things you most need to ensure a quick sell.

home selling contract

When it’s time to finally seal the deal on your home selling, it’s time to take out the contract. Since it’s the document that will supposedly ends the process, it’s very important for home owners to understand the components of a real estate contract (even more if you’re selling the house on your own). Remember that even the contents in a contract is negotiable, so getting to know home selling contracts would put you in a better position for further discussion. You would also have less risk of being scammed by random contracts offered.

Although not all home selling contracts follow the same standard, most of them should answer the following questions:

· What’s being sold? A description of the property on hand.

· How much is it?

· How is the contingency of mortgage? An amount or a mortgage rate is needed.

· How much will the deposit be and whom will it be given to?

· When and where is the closing?

· What is the exact scope of the selling? A home selling contract, in its essence, should give a firm limit of what’s being sold and what’s not.

· Will the seller be able to do further home inspections?

· What kind of inspections (wellness, hygiene, termite inspection) will be done?

· Is there any insurance covering the house?

Once again, remember that familiarizing yourself with these points will prove useful for those suspicious clauses. Pay extra attention to the contingencies, as this is usually the most essential part of a home selling contract. The home buyers would want to make sure that if something occurs in the house before closing, they would have a way to back out without penalty. Make sure that you as the seller is equally unharmed by this.

The tough job is, even after you understand the main elements of a home selling contracts, you might experience difficulty in designing one for your transaction. Once again, it’s good to let your agent deal on these things, but if you’re selling your home on your own, do some research. Some websites could give you a format of a contract that you could use for self-selling that will not lead to detrimental effects. It’s very important to hire an attorney to help you get through the legal terms in contracts, especially when you chose not to hire a real estate agent.

Selling a home online

Selling a home online

As we can see now, lot of humans’ activities are supported with technology. We can feel those technologies by ourselves such as the personal computer that helps us to finish our task or assignment fast, cellular phone helps us to keep in touch with our family and friends regardless of our location, and the internet helps us to keep up with the global changes in the world.

At the moment, we can sell a home online through the internet. Internet provides you with lot of information about the buying and selling home. You can get the infos and you can also put an advertisement (ads) online on the internet to get the best and fastest solution in selling your home.

Nowadays, about seventy percent of homebuyer starts to search for houses online through the internet. This is absolutely one advantage for sellers to add an advertisement online because it usually has a fast reply from buyer since you add your ads online on the internet to sell your home.

You should know first how to make a good advertisement online. In your ads you have to put your home pictures and those should be a great one. Majority of buyer who search for home online they click on the ads that attached with the home’s pictures.

Buyers get the first impression from the pictures of your home on the ads and as the people say that there is no second chance for first impression. Before you take pictures of your home, please make sure that there will be no clutters or flaws and there only be clean, tidy, spacious rooms inside an outside of your home.

You should also make your advertising copy should be thorough yet short, simple and to-the-point. Since the home buyers scan ads quickly so you have to make an attractive headline that will grab your buyers such as Show your Class!; Fit to your pocket; Lovely and elegant!; BIG HOME, Little Budget, etc. you also have to include phrases, give information about the location or anything that make your home more special compare to other houses in the body of your advertisements to describe features of your home that will attract buyers.

Make a flyer about your home and its features. Why? Because potential buyer never leaves without keeping a flyer that describe your home’s best points and your asking price, phone number, and the web address of your Internet ads if you have one.

If you have done all of them that means you are now prepared to sell a home online through the internet. It is so simple isn’t it?

Selling home fast

Selling home fast


At this moment, everything comes so fast. Everyone wants everything done fast in order to save time and money. But, not everything fast can give a better result and save more neither money nor time. Selling home fast is not an easy way but still possible to do. Selling home fast can be done with the help of the professional since we do not have the expertise in selling home.

There are many reasons why we want to sell our home fast, but do not make those reasons become barriers in selling your home fast. But, make them as an encouragement to you to selling your home fast with big effort.

First thing to remember in selling home fast is point out the very best part of your home to the customer. Make your home looks great and attractive. If you can make your home looks attractive and show it good to the buyers, the result will be much better than it should. Then, you will be asking how to make it looks attractive to the buyers while i already think that my home is attractive enough without costing much money.

If you want to sell your home fast, you will need some help from the professionals. To make the inside of your house is attractive; you will need to hire an interior design to create a lovely view of your home. A well-decorated will sell faster and for more money than one that does not well-decorated.

You will also need to hire the organizer to organize your home and storage such as bathroom, basement, garage, closets, and attic (if your home has one) so that your home will look organized and clean and tidy.

After your home is in its best performance, you can also hire a professional photographer to take some great pictures of your home. Why do you have to take pictures of your home? Because nowadays, lots of homebuyers, look for houses in the web and in that web you can put your home’s pictures so that the buyer can take a first look of your home. Remember that first impression is an important thing, how can you sell you home fast if your home itself does not look attractive on the web. Generally, if the buyers do not attracted to your home on the web, there will be little chance that they will be willing to see your home.

Make sure that your home is termite free, and has a good plumbing; water quality, lead, radon, septic tank, asbestos, electricity. You have to make the inside and outside your home is freshen up. After all those things set, you can start to make an “open house”. Open house should be scheduled on the time in which your home shows its best performance or condition.

For example, if you have a beautiful garden, show it off during the morning before the flowers start to wilt. If there's one thing that you love most about your home, be sure to share it with potential buyers.

Selling home fast is not an impossible thing to do. But yet, you still have to spend extra money to hire design interior, home organizer, professional photographers, and other expenses. But those expenses really worthwhile compare to the money that you will get. Hope that you can sell your home quickly.

Selling your home yourself

Selling your home yourself


Nowadays, a lot of people are doing business in the real estate area. One of the businesses is buying and selling house. The Real estate agent who will take charge of his or her services for about 2-6% home often takes this buying and selling home activity.

People usually sell the home with the help of real estate agent because they want their home to be sold fast. Maybe you will think that you want to sell your home by yourself in order to save more money into your account because the money will not be cut down to the third party such as real estate agent.

Selling your home by yourself is not a difficult task to do if you know how to sell your house by yourself with a good strategy and know the steps to sell your house immediately. But, selling your home yourself demand lots of your time. Why is that? Because you have to do more survey on price and more work to “clean up” your house before the selling process.

Selling your home yourself is as easy as 1,2,3 and you will see that you can also sell your home yourself. Before you start to sell, you have to set your mind that you can sell your home by yourself.

If you already set your mind, the next steps can be lot more easily. First thing that you have to do is “clean up” your house and make your house looks spacious. Every buyer always searches for a clean, neat, tidy, and spacious home.

You have to make your home look great and attractive. You can start by identify your home defects and make some extra work to do to your home such as cut the grass, remove all clutter, scoring your home from top to bottom, makes some little improvement even if that seem unimportant to you such as planting flowers, fixing broken tiles, trimming tree, and make sure that your home smells good, and other repairments and improvements here and there.

After you “prepare” your home, you should also set a reasonable price in selling your home. You do not want to set the price too little or over estimate that will reduce your potential buyers. You can find information about the price of the home, that similar to your home, in newspapers, advertisements, or you could ask some professionals advices to price your home.

The last step to do is to market your home. Selling your home by yourself can be an interesting work to do but can also make you frustrated if your home is not sold for the time that you have predicted. If your marketing strategy is good, you will have your home sold only by weeks. You can start by making a good advertisement on your house appearance and add your ads into a newspaper or magazine that has a particular field in buying or selling house.

You can also make an open house. Open house is an attractive ways to attract buyers. And do not forget to make flyers of your house so that the buyers can bring your home brochure with them.

Selling your own home

Selling your own home

Home sweet home. We always feel comfortable in our own home. Like they say, “there is nothing place comfortable like home”. Yes, that is true. But what if you want to sell your own home? Selling your own home can be difficult at one time, because you cannot see your own home as a property to sell. You are used to the way of your home looks and functions and there be no problems with that. But homebuyers see things differently, they is if the house is still proper to live in, is the house is clean and tidy, is the house has spacious area for the whole family, is it a secure neighborhood, etc.

Selling your own home can be a fun or maybe exhausting activity because you have to prepare your home and fix the flaws or defect of your home. You can choose by yourself whether you want to sell your own home by yourself or you may want to use a real estate agent to sell your home. Every choice has its own advantages and disadvantages. Because it is your home, you can decide it by yourself. One thing you should also remember that every choice that you make should gain more benefits to you.

If you do not want to bother by this “selling home” matter, then you can use a real estate agent to sell your home right away with reasonable price that you or the agent suggest. The real estate agent will take care all of the documents and arrange the meeting between you and the buyer. The agent also prepares the open house if you don not have much time to do it.

At the end of the closing time, this agent will cut your home price up to 6% for his service to help you to sell your own home. Even tough you will loose some dollars for the agent, at least your home is sold with the price that you want and you do not have to think about the documents and the permits either. Everything is prepared and finished by this agent.

But what if you want to sell your own home by yourself? It still possible, as a matter of fact, you will save more dollars because you do not have to spend more money on real estate agents. However, selling your own home by yourself need extra works and extra time and extra energies since you will be doing all things from a to z in selling your own home.

The fun fact is that you can stress up your home’s best points to the buyers and negotiating the price directly with them without any third party such as the real estate agent. You can find information about selling your own home by yourself on the web or newspaper about the price of houses.

You have to be smart in selling your own home. Do not sell it at low price so that it will cost you more money, or at high price so that the buyer will be scared away and leave.

Selling a new home

Selling a new home

Selling a new home sounds easier than selling an old home that need repairs here and there. But even a new home that we are selling, it still needs preparation to sell it. We cannot just put a “For Sale: new home” sign in front of the house and expect the people will come to you and sign the deal. Selling a new home is still the same as selling your own home but the difference is that it does not need lot of preparation as usual.

Since you do not have to spend much time in repairing or improving the house, you can catch up by making a marketing plan to sell the new home. The marketing plan is made to sell a home in a rapid time at the best price. The plan can be advertising in the newspaper, posting your listing on the Internet, holding an open house and more.

Just to remind you that there is two important thins to remember in selling home including a new home, they are price and condition. Any home will sell right faster if the price is right and reasonable. Any repairs and improvements or cost to sell should be included in your asking price but it has to be reasonable.

It is also helpful to discuss other terms and conditions, such as timing and items that can be included with the sale of the home. Both of these can make your home more attractive to potential buyers.

Any realtor will tell you that the spring and summer are the best times of the year to sell a home, because that is the time when buyers are having a great interest in buying home. Selling a house depends on supply, demand and other economic factors. But the time of year in which you choose to sell can make a difference both in the amount of time it takes to sell your home and in the ultimate selling price.

According to the most recent data from the National Association of Realtors, or NAR, about 350,000 transactions were closed during January and February this year, compared with 650,000 to 700,000 a month in June, July and August.

You also should hold open house to sell a new home which is one of the ways to promote your house to the your neighbors. This can be one of free advertisement in selling the home just in case if there is our neighbors’ friends or family who accidentally want to buy a home. Create an information sheet (with a photo) about your home to give potential buyers a description about your home.

Selling a new home is not as difficult as you think. Yet, it also does not as easy as it seems. What you need to have in selling a new home is a spirit to sell and link to sell your home and also a hard work.

Home Selling Checklist

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.

Getting Your House Ready to Sell

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.

Home Selling Tips

Home Selling Tips

Planning to sell your house? Or planning to move to a new house and selling the old one? There are some home selling tips to make your home selling attracts a buyer. You should pay attention to some aspects if you would sell your home. The price almost becomes a general of all. And then, the qualities of your house can be guarantee. The qualities include beauty, functionality, coziness, etc.

Above all, assumes that you are a buyer, what will you look or what will you look if you want to buy a house? There are some home selling tips:

· Just familiar with the market price of houses, and put the reasonable price.

· The location of your house can be a point to increase or decrease your market price, if your house located in an elite residential, you are allowed to increase your market price.

· Plan some strategy to advertise and promote your home selling. You can consult with an expert or with a realty agent. Just put your advertising in local newspaper or you also can put your home selling promotion in a websites. Nowadays, there are many sites that operate in home selling advertising.

· Put a board sign written “Home For Sale by Owner” in your front yard.

· Showing your home to a buyer directly or using visual media.

· Your presentation to a buyer can add a good value of your home selling.

· No home is perfect. You just disclosing and clarifying all the negative facts in your house.

· Make a good first impression, by doing some preparations in your exterior, interior, and appliances.

· Creating a buying mood, with turn of air conditioner or heater, make some spaces, create coziness, open the windows, light the fireplace, etc.

· Qualify a buyer is necessary to do to make sure that the process of selling work properly.

· Pay attention to your house tax. You can consult with your house tax advisor.

· Just now about all legal transaction process terms such as contracts, and letter correlated.

· Learn how to do a good negotiation.

· If you decide to use an agent or realtor, you must know the different of two them. You also should now the commission and all the process inside.

· Choose a reputable realtor.

· Put the board signs written “Home For Sale by Realtor” if you use realtor.

· Make the most of your realtor’s advices. Your realtor will guide you to your home selling and you will receive the maximum results offered.

tip on selling your own home

Selling your own home is never easy, and the difficulties ran more than just missing an agent. There are those memories and sense of belongings to get over, for one. You want to make sure the house you’ve lived in moves to the best buyer possible – and you want to make sure they’re willing to pay what it’s worth. Do you really think you can do this? A lot of people managed to sell their own home quickly. Here are some tips that might help:

· Make sure you have every legal issues covered before you even think about handing your house over. Does your state law require you to give property disclosures to potential buyers? It’s always a good idea to invest in a good attorney to help you.

· An attorney also come in handy for helping you make the contract form. Selling your own home requires a contract that would both protect you and the buyer – think about the buyer deposit and the local estate laws.

· A useful but normally disregarded tip in selling your own home is make sure you pick out the best picture to put in the advertisements. Like humans, not all houses are “photogenic”, so pick out the best angle that still represents what your house has to offer.

· Something the agents have and you don’t is experience, especially in observing buyers. The large amount of potential buyers coming to your house should not convince you that everyone can finance for a house. If you’re selling a house on your own, more buyers will come in hope of a more flexible negotiation – check them all. Ask if they’re able to buy your house immediately, or do they need to sell their own house first.

· Cleaning and preparing your house for home showings is only a part of your effort. Some potential buyers love to do drive-bys, and rely on that first impression. Make sure your lawn and the front part of your house is well maintained. If your curb appeal is low, clients are reluctant to see what’s inside.

These tips on selling your own home came from people who managed to sell their house successfully. There’s a lot to consider before you take every next step, so take your time. And remember, it’s useless to do the selling on your own if the revenue taken from not hiring an agent is spent heavily on fixing your own mistakes!

STEPS TO SELLING YOUR HOME

STEPS TO SELLING YOUR HOME

Selling your private property is something private as well. It requires courage and confidence. Here are some steps that will help you to sell your home:

1. Look at your home condition. This is the first step that will make you easier to get a buyer. Buyer or consumers always need a first impression. The physics of your home, inside or outside, is very important to make them contact you for the price. So, make sure you have a property that is clean, neat, and well-cared. Who want to buy a home with filthy condition? Repair the leakages and re-paint the walls will make your home even nicer and attractive.

2. Price your home. How much do you want to worth your home? Of course it depends on your home physics and external supports. External supports mean the neighborhood and public access. The more accessible and nicer neighborhood will definitely in demand and can be considered plus points for your home. Also in pricing your home, it is important to look at the market. How does the market say? Market can be a good step point to set your home price. As an additional tip, always open for negotiation! People like to bargain.

3. Advertise your home. Advertisement is always effective in getting consumers. Many ways to advertise your home:

a. Advertise your home on the newspaper. It requires extra budget, but it is worth lots of people to read your advertisement.

b. Put an announcement board or banner in front of your home. This will make everybody who crosses the street to know your sale and perhaps tell it to their relatives. The bigger the banner is the better.

c. Print lots of brochures or leaflets and disseminate it in public places. And do not make the information narrative; just a few pointers that has your home picture and contact number on it.

d. Tell your friends and relatives. This could be the easiest way to advertise your home. I personally do not prefer friend/relative-related consumers, but as long as they can give you a good price, why not? And also, friends and relatives are usually kind enough to help us to look for buyers. That’s what friends are for, right?

4. Use a broker service. Broker service will help you to market your home even better since they have lists of potential buyers. They are definitely the expert to help you in negotiating with buyers and basically arranging your home sale (from the first step). You can call them as the middleman. If you do not want to waste your time, you could just contact few brokers and ask for their services. The consequence is you have to share a certain percentage of your home selling price with them. So, if you do need to sell your home very soon, I would recommend this strategy.

Good luck in selling your home!

Selling Home

Selling Home

When you think about selling home maybe you think about to settle all your furniture and anything else in your home. Well it’s quite right but selling home means also to remove all the clutters, to repair all the damages in the house, to decide what price of your home, and to make the advertisement in the newspaper or magazine.

Selling home needs long preparation and you should do it long time before you want to sell it. You should throw away your emotion with your home and think about it as a marketable commodity. When you selling home the others who want to buy it should think it as their potential new home not yours old home.

Next what you should do in selling home is throw away all the clutters in your home. Maybe you’re emotionally attached with some of these clutters and I remind you once more you should throw away your emotion. Think about all clutters in the closets, garage, attic, and basement. You don’t want the buyer come and see some of the clutters in those places.

And then you need to repair all the damages when you do selling home. But let me tell you, repair the damages for selling home doesn’t mean you do anything expensive such as remodeling your house. You need to save your money to buy your new home or to obtain new loan. Checking the light, water, closet and toilet is a good point to do for selling home. Do check the floor, wall, ceil, windows and doors when selling home.

Maybe the difficult thing to do in selling home is to decide the price of your home. Don’t set your selling price too high when selling home ‘cause you might get difficulty to get buyer. And if you drop your price later it might be too late. Selling home about six month is a long time and if there’s no one who buy your home in this period of time the other buyer may think that you will be desperate and they’ll make a lower offer. So selling home need a wise thinking and deep consideration to set the price of your home.

Next thing is to make advertisement about your selling home in the newspaper or magazine. You should make an attractive but not exaggerating ‘cause people might think it doesn’t not make sense if you make advertisement like that. And after you advertise your home and there’s someone who wants to buy your home you should show your home to them.

Try not to be home when they come to see your home, take the kids to the nearest park and try to control your pets. Keep the house tidy and throw away the kitchen trash. And in the end your home may be sold with the price like you wanted.

Home selling process

home selling process

So many tips are being given on home selling. If only you knew where to begin with! Some homeowners get confused because they don’t have a big picture of what exactly will happen during the home selling process. While it may differ from various areas, some general steps sellers should expect are the same.

The first thing to do is some preliminary planning. Though you may not feel like it, this is the step that kick-start the whole home selling process. Your house needs to be fully prepared to accept a new owner. If you plan to sell your house and buy another one, always know for a fact that you’re qualified to buy a new one before selling your old home.

When you feel like you and your house is ready, it’s time to find yourself a realtor. Interview agents in your local neighborhood or ones that are proven with a good experience. Ask on how they would market your property, and what kinds of additional commissions do they offer. This is someone that’s going to be with you throughout the process, so make sure the chemistry works.

When you’ve made your decision about an agent, prepare the listing agreement. There are several types available, each ones giving you a different level of involvement between you and the broker. Choose one that’s similar to the amount of work you’re willing to contribute in the home selling process – and how much money you’re going to spend.

The money of your listing agreement should come from the revenue of your home price, so make sure you set the price ideally. A too high or too low price will not help sell your home, as this may creates a bad image to potential buyers. Check some cost analysis to get a rough value of your property, and work from there. Don’t forget the costs you have to spend throughout the home selling process.

If you set the price right, it’s highly possible that potential buyers would start calling for home showings. Prepare for this as well as you prepare your house for it. If you’re using an agent, leave the house whenever a client comes over. If you’re selling on your own, check the points you’re going to show the potential buyers and think about what you’re going to say.

Finally, if the home showings went well, the buyers will make an offer. Offers should be made in standard forms that would satisfy a lawyer. Make sure you know what the buyer wants to include in the sale and what should be excluded. You can choose to accept or reject the offer, or modify it and see if the buyer is willing to negotiate with your incentives.

Once you’ve reached an agreement, that pretty much brings you to the end of the your home selling process. Good luck!

Home selling tip

home selling tip

Home selling tips are everywhere – some suggesting things you might never thought of, some are general ones you’re likely to find everywhere. But just because they’re common doesn’t mean we should stop making them. Here are some home selling tips of our own:

· When putting out your advertisement, never use the words "asking" or "negotiable" with your selling price. This will only make it seem like you’re not sure of the value of your home. Why bother setting the price in the first place if further negotiation is likely to change it anyways?

· When preparing your house, try to look at it from the buyer’s point of view. Would you want to buy a house like your own?

· Unless you’re sure you’re up to the challenge, hire a good agent and attorney to do the home selling for you. It may cost more, but it can save you a lot of pain.

· Make sure you have a full Multiple Listing Service coverage – this is a powerful tip to remember. Multiple Listing Service is the strongest selling tool for your home. Some people would not even advise you to check for any offers before you see you home on MLS!

· Home showings through an open house is a good idea, especially if you live in a small town.

· Getting your clutter out of the way will not only improve the home showings, but also makes it easier for you to pack your things.

· Finish off whatever new constructions you’re applying with your house. No buyers would want to finish what the seller left off!

· When negotiating with the buyer, throw your bad mood away. It’s hard to discuss price when you’re still upset about the buyer’s plans to cut down the tree you love. Maintain an interactive discussion and build up trust. Even if the offer doesn’t work out, keep up a good impression.

· Don’t let buyers’ offers sway you – consult with your attorney about the price offered. Usually there’s a period of three days for you to accept or reject an offer. Also be prepared for home inspections, as usually this happens during this stage of the home selling process.

Like I said in the beginning of the article: home selling tips are endless, when you start looking for them. Choose only the tips that would best suit your needs and capacity. And if you still haven’t found one, chances are you’ll find it soon.