I'm trying to sell my house. Any suggestions on where to start?

Answer 1

Selling your home yourself is not all that difficult. It does not take a genius, however you, must contact several people that will help you in this important asset

To solve the fliers situation go to Staples or Office Depot and for approximately $5.00 or so you may buy a container to hold the fliers. Now make sure that you place this some place on your property that can readily be seen. The fliers should have a front picture of you home as well as a few inside shots mainly the kitchen and living rooms. You want to use words like large kitchen,(Only if it is true) Huge master bedroom.

Now one of the first things you might want to do is find someone that might or is willing to assist you with the sale of your home.

Look in your telephone book for a mortgage broker, call him, tell him you are selling your home and need someone to assist you in qualifying potential buyers as well as assist with any open houses. Keep calling until one of the mortgage brokers will commit to assisting you.

Now that you've got this mortgage broker aboard he will take care of most of those so called disclosures that might be required in your state. (Not so scary any more is it)

Now if one of those real estate agents drop by and ask if you are willing to pay them a commission if they bring you a buyer, tell them you are not and they should get their commission from the person that hired them.

The reason being is that you are attempting to get the maximum amount of the proceeds from the sale of your home into your pockets and not those of a real estate salesperson. Be polite but firm.

Now you also need to make sure that your home get the maximum exposure possible. So place as many fliers in the community as possible especially in the commercial places around your area. Ask the owners of liquor stores, cleaners and other places if you can place a single flier in their business, especially the business you frequent in your neighborhood. Ask your boss if you can place one in the work place.

There are also many web sites that will allow you to place free ads of your home for sale, so find them and place your home in as many of them as possible.

Now about those nice real estate agents, you will need to contact at least three of them. Tell them you are thinking of selling your home and you are in the process of selecting a method of doing this and you want to see what they can do to assist you in the sale of your home.

Be truthful. Tell them you are considering selling it yourself, getting a cut rate broker or getting a full time real estate agent.

By doing this you will be able to get one or two to give you some idea about what to sell your property for. They will give you an estimate or what is called a CMA. They will leave that with you, interview 3 agents.

After you have looked at what they have offered, don't leave them hanging, call them back and tell them you have decided to sell the property yourself. Thank them for their assistance.

Now you want to get the house in shape to sell, get a professional Gardner to landscape the outside at least once.

Look inside the house see if there are anything needing repair that you know of, get these things done now. Check the carpet, either get it steam cleaned, get new carpet or give the buyer a few hundred dollars to change the carpet. Be especially mindful of the kitchen and bathroom.

Now once you get a possible buyer that is not pre-approved to purchase the house make sure the mortgage broker is called so he can take care of that for you. If you find one that is pre-approved he/she already have a mortgage broker that will assist in the closing of the transaction by opening an escrow closing agent, getting a title company. The mortgage broker will also be able to assist you in preparing a sales contract.

I hope this has been of some use to you, good luck.

"FIGHT ON"

Answer 2

Again loanmasterone is right on. The only thing I would add is to work with a FSBO oriented loan officer. They will give you lots of good tips and advice and even have tools to help you market your home for you.

You never have to pay them anything because they eventually hope that they can do the financing for the person that buys your house. they'll make the commission from the loan and it's worth the time they put in to help you sell the place.

I am one of those people and would be more than happy to help you with this. I work for chase and FSBOS are one of my specialties.

Caseycasperson.com or [e-mail]

Answer 3

really get a agent!!!!! if you think you want that headache go to the courthouse and find 3 like construction and size and neighborhood. that is the first of all starting places. if you can get it on some web site and advertising you are OK. the first 2 weeks are about the time people who live close will call. also agents will drive around your house so their clients will not see it on purpose. 2nd get a agent!!!!!!

Answer 4

Ever heard of by way of proprietor-for a undeniable value that is below the value you pays a real sources agent-a image of your residing house the two white and black(much less) or shade(extra$) is outlined in genuine sources Magazines, additionally inspect nearby television genuine sources teach the place back for a series value your house is shown on television classified ads---i've got additionally examine that yellow painted properties sell the main(diffused yellow no longer a too loud yellow), have you ever completed all you could to make your residing house look appealing,stand happy with the line-a mowed and neat backyard,gutters wiped sparkling,backyard sparkling of refuse and junk and if desire be purchase some low priced potted flowers or putting baskets and extraordinarily it up, wash outdoors of residing house windows till they sparkle and on the interior once you teach the residing house NO muddle-take stuff off Kitchen Counters only perhaps Coffeemaker and extraordinarily plant or some plant existence in a vase-trouble-free and sparkling. no longer something laying around-back tidy,sparkling and does your residing house smell sparkling and sparkling?If no longer LYSOL is great for killing smell .are additionally your flooring sparkling-no spots in carpet-chk the partitions-no seen markings or cracks and so on. once you teach your residing house all must be spotless.Chk out merchandising your residing house on line-all varieties of the help of genuine sources human beings and that they ought to understand. If all else fails and you have completed all then hire genuine sources agent yet do no longer teach you're desperate the two and in the previous you do call countless to get conventional value costs so which you could't be taken for greater value by way of savvy agent. stable success

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Start by calling 3 real estate agents that are active in your area. Listen to all 3, and go with the one that you are most comfortable with.

Answer 7

find selling laws in your community
perhaps get a guidebook from library
always easier to have
re agent to handle it for you unless you know what you are doing

Answer 8

would you allow a dentist to do heart surgery on your mom?