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2006-08-10 03:52:03 · 10 answers · asked by Clark Kent 1 in Business & Finance Renting & Real Estate

10 answers

You can do several things to make it sell faster.
1. Clean the heck out of it.
2. Remove extra furnature and any un-necesary items.
3. Remove personal pictures of people and replace with art.
4. Set up your house as if it were a model home. You want the buyer to look at the house as if they could just move in. They need to be able to picture themselves living there, not feel like they are in someone elses house.
5. CLEAN THE HOUSE
6. Make sure the house does not smell!!
7. Make your kitchen counters look bigger by removing any small appliances or clutter off of them. I even put my microwave in the cubboard while showing the house so the kitchen looks bigger.
8. Clear all of the magnets off of your refrigerator, they look like clutter.
9. Put some vases of fresh flowers around the house (in the bathrooms, by the front door, in the master bedroom etc.)
10. Make sure the front of the house is clean and neat and the yard is maintained. (grass cut, weeds pulled from garden etc.)
11. Get your carpets cleaned, it is the first thing people look at when they come into a house.
12. If you are still having trouble selling your home try to do some ugrades....Paint the walls NEUTRAL colors like beige and antique white, Replace vinyl floors in kitchen and bathroom with ceramic tile (you can get it for 78cents a sq. ft.) Your bathrooms and kitchen are the two places you should concentrate on. Replace or upgrade broken, worn, or out of date fixtures. Replace light fixtures if they are not attractive, you can get them inexpensivelly and install yourself.

Good Luck

2006-08-10 05:20:33 · answer #1 · answered by ladybug 2 · 1 0

EVERY house sells if it is priced correctly. If you've had it up for a while and aren't getting any interested buyers, your price is too high.

It's really easy to let things like your ego "my house is gorgeous and worth at least...yada yada," or "my mortgage is this and I need to clear that," get in the way of common sense.

Prices in some markets can fluctuate wildly and rapidly. I remember being both a buyer and seller in CA in markets that changed as much as 20% in a week's time!

The reality is that if your home hasn't sold, you are asking more than it is worth and the TRUE value of anything is whatever buyers will pay for it. When people talk about about what something is worth, it is speculation until there is a buyer at that price. Period.

The summer is peak season and it is ending quickly and you're entering the fall market which slows quickly (until Spring) AND interest rates for mortgages are rising. So..the longer your house sits, the less you are going to get for it.

Keep in mind that while your house just sits, it is still costing you money in payments, taxes and utilities so you are losing that cash as well.

Talk to your realtor about reassessing what price it will sell at and if your realtor doesn't get the point, then you have a lousy realtor.

Good luck.

2006-08-10 05:02:38 · answer #2 · answered by Lori A 6 · 0 0

I hope it does. The market is terrible right now. My husband and I just moved in here last week. It took MONTHS for other place to sell. We had to mark it down quite a bit and pay the buyers closing costs. I hope that you are more fortunate than we were. Good Luck to you!! I know how stressful this can be.

2006-08-10 03:59:21 · answer #3 · answered by Miss Mouse 6 · 0 1

depends where beacuse i have house in front of me that hasn't been sold and has been there for a while like just wait and it will happen

2006-08-10 03:57:04 · answer #4 · answered by goosebumpz7 2 · 0 1

yes!
have you tried the saint joseph trick?
ok...
what you do is
you go to a christian store nearby
and by a small statue of st.joseph
if u don't know who he is
then just ask someone who works there
then bring it back to ur house,
bury it in the yard upside down
and wait for God to bring a new
owner of your house
just ask him for your house to be sold
and he will answer
best wishes
good luck!
have a nice day! : )

2006-08-10 03:55:34 · answer #5 · answered by lil_bit_a_evrythang 3 · 0 2

No, the housing market in metropolis has softened, Clark.

2006-08-10 03:55:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Hold on just a moment while I consult my crystal ball...

2006-08-10 03:55:01 · answer #7 · answered by junebug 3 · 1 1

We aren't psychic bud- but good luck!

2006-08-10 03:57:36 · answer #8 · answered by o2bamy25 3 · 0 1

may be.

2006-08-13 13:38:15 · answer #9 · answered by vrazumniy 2 · 0 1

No. Now please stop asking dumb questions.

2006-08-10 04:00:49 · answer #10 · answered by commonsense 5 · 0 1

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