Selling your home quickly should be your primary goal when marketing your home. These real estate sales tips may help YOU in the selling of your home and may even help prevent foreclosure. If you want to sell your house then you have to be actively involved; you cannot just hire a realtor and then sit back and wait. If you really want a fast house sale, then read these tips and then implement them. You can find the forms for your real estate transaction here.
I've been selling real estate for about ten years now and have sold thousands and thousands of properties. This stuff just plain works. I'm not a very good blog creator but I am an excellent real estate agent, so please consider using these techniques.
ONE)
Check out your competition and try to price your house LOWER than theirs. Be sure to adjust for differences in properties. Okay, this sounds like a no-brainer, but you would be surprised how many people are in dire need of selling their homes but when it comes to pricing it they become very defensive. The price of your house is NOT a measure of your self-worth. Get it sold at a better-than-average deal for the buyer and move on. Remember that this is a buyers market; you are competing against foreclosure sales, auctions and the like.
TWO)
Offer Buyer Incentives. This is an old trick but one that so, so many people don't take advantage of. Do something cool such as offering a free 52" Plasma TV or a free hot tub with the purchase of your home. Don't be over-creative as you want to appeal to as broad an audience as possible. For some reason, just offering money towards closing costs doesn't register in buyers' minds as solidly as that new extra-wide stainless fridge awaiting them in their new kitchen.
THREE)
Offer a Buyer's Agency Bonus (See below for more on this). Remember, it probably costs you less to pay a bonus now instead of having to wait two years to sell your home. Keep in mind that many agents expect at least 3% of the total purchase price and perhaps more in this buyers market.
FOUR)
Make your own web site featuring your home. Don't be afraid to make more than one. Link them all together for better search engine placement. Many sites offer free web site hosting / design or free blogs. http://www.blogger.com/ is where I did mine. Don't forget to submit your sites to all the major search engines when done.
FIVE)
Email ALL of the realtors in your area and let them know that your are trying to sell your home. You can easily find out who they are and get their email addresses by doing a quick search. Remember: Money talks! Be sure to tell them that you are prepared to pay a healthy finders fee for the one who can produce a buyer.
SIX)
Call local, large employers who may occasionally relocate to your area and let them know about your home. Try to ask for the person in charge of relocation and ask them if you could email your flier to them. Make SURE you let them about the buyer's bonus.
SEVEN)
Check out the local papers' online classified sections and get your home listed in them. Take advantage of all free publicity. Many online classified listings are cheaper than the printed version, and some are free. Online listings offer the added advantage of getting cross-listed in web searches as well.
Good luck to you and your family on this project. Please keep in mind that many realtors will tell you that you have to "be patient". I do not agree with this; this is more of a way that allows agents to buy time. Most successful sales happen within the first 3 weeks of the listing. If you have had your house on the market for a long time, then please get to work and employ some of these tactics. Even if you already have an agent you should still try to help as it is in your best interest. You can get the real estate forms here.
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