Win/Win Home Pricing
Frustrated Home Seller’s Lament: I don’t want to fix it!
”I don’t want to and you can’t make me!” Most everyone has heard a child scream this, but these days a number of home sellers are feeling the same way. When you’re already facing lower property values due to the real estate decline, the last thing you want to do is spend more money enhancing [...]
Home Selling Advice from a Happy Home Seller
This story doesn’t start off happy: Jennifer, a home seller in Los Angeles, wrote to tell me about the difficulties she was having with the hefty demands home buyers are making on sellers these days — and wondering if this “bad buyer behavior” was a common phenomena. Jennifer had received her first offer within three [...]
Home Selling Tip: How To Sell Your House In Three Days
A dear friend of mine in Las Vegas just reported that the couple living next door to them just sold their house in three days. I’ll repeat that: They sold their home in Las Vegas… in three days. My response, knowing the slow housing market, not to mention the slowness of the season, was, “WHAT?!! [...]
Home Selling Fence Sitting
Should I put my house on the market this year or wait until next year? That’s the question that a lot of potential home sellers are asking right now. Many are hoping that if they wait just another year, they’ll see prices start heading up again. The trouble is if prices go the other way [...]
Five Tips to Prevent Home Selling Success… or How NOT to Sell Your Home
I hear this phrase often — I’m having a hard time selling my house! Well, it could be caused by the current market conditions or that you live next door to the freeway. Or, you might be inadvertently doing something that’s standing in the way of selling your home. Here are five tips that can [...]
Your house isn’t selling? This may be why…
You may have heard multiple times already that there are three main reasons your house isn’t selling: either the price is too high, something is wrong with its appearance or condition, or it isn’t being marketed correctly. Right now I want to talk about the first reason — your house is priced too high. This [...]
10 Big Things Home Sellers Can Control
In my last post I was talking about why home sellers get frustrated… throughout history most people were able to pull up stakes when resources ran low or new opportunities beckoned. Nowadays, however, we’re tied to our properties and unable to move on when we need to. But the good news is we do have [...]
Five Traits of a Winning Home Seller
Yes, the housing market is slow, fewer people are buying and loans are harder to get – but some lucky people are still selling homes. How are they doing it? These lucky home sellers have cultivated five traits that increase their chance of finding a buyer. Ultimately, it boils down to making your home as [...]
Four Tips For Selling An Ugly House
With so many sellers doing their best to make their homes look showplace perfect, house hunters are getting used to seeing nice-looking homes. But, what do you do if the house you’re selling has seen better days–and you don’t have the time, energy or resources to dress it up? Many people are finding themselves in [...]
Seven Signs of a Great Realtor – Revised
Based upon input I’ve received about this post, I’ve modified my list of tips for finding a great Realtor to sell your home. (Aren’t blogs great? You can go back and fine-tune your messages based upon valuable contributions provided by readers! See comments below.) I’ve also expanded the list to include a few more I’d [...]