plain english selling your home
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Selling Your Home
“The Keys to Success”
Selling Your Home • Requires work by both the Seller and REALTOR®
• Proven systems, strong internet coverage and a dedicated team is what you need
Getting Buyers to want your Home!!
Selling Your Home• Taking a complete set of photographs of the
property Insisting on a lockbox — and a complete set of showing instructions on MLS
• Writing interesting text and telling a story about the house, engaging potential Buyers
• Creating a virtual tour and featuring it on our website and elsewhere on the Internet
• Giving our sellers helpful tips, curb appeal, and explaining the process and what they could expect during the listing
• Creating an electronic flyer and publishing it via the Internet
• Pricing your home correctly the first time -not coming back for price reductionsWrite about your home on our BLOG
Is Your Home Move-in Ready?
Keys to selling:
• Price
• Condition
• Incentives (closing costs, etc)
• MLS
Selling Your Home
• Keeping in touch with owners, providing timely feedback Feature it On our Websites (facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, delicious, and others including: GoogleBase
• Yahoo! Real Estate **• Trulia **• Zillow **• Oodle• FrontDoor **• Lycos• Homes.com (add-on fee) **• MySpace Classifieds *• OLX• Yakaz• Love2Trade *• Overstock• AmericanTowns *• Kijiji (Posting HTML)• HouseFront **• Local• Hotpads• FeedBurner• eHouseAds• efind *• DotHomes• Info *• Vast• RealtyFeedSearch• CLRSearch **• RealtyFeeds• USAMLS.com• Properazzi• Express *• PropSmart• PropBot• MillionRSS• Craigslist (Posting HTML)• MillionRSS• WalMart Classifieds• VillageList *• MattFined *• ListPic *• ActiveRain (Posting HTML)• eBay (Posting HTML)• LiveDeal (Posting HTML)• BackPage (Posting HTML)
“Syndication to the internet - 75% of buyers now search homes on the internet before searching”
What Is My Home Worth• This is a question investors, buyers, and
sellers always need the right answer to. We understand that Investors need to know if the property in question is really properly valued.
• Sellers must properly price their real estate in this competitive market.
• Your REALTOR(R) does not want to come back asking for price reductions. Consider listing your properly aggressively under the most recent comps and pendings.
• You will most likely make up any fund shortfalls when you purchase your next home.
“Seller’s almost always think
their home is worth more than reality –the market dictates eventual price”
What is the Market Doing?You Need to Know the Stats
What is a “Realistic” Listing Price?
What Is My Home Worth
• You get more than just a print out of comparable listings. Not only can we offer pricing but we can also offer insight into the regional market based upon our years in working with Virginia Beach and Hampton Roads real estate.
• We will be happy to research that for you and give you a complete Market Analysis! Just email us!
• Email Dennis Blackmore
“In most cases
seller’s will get back
any concessions given when they make their next real estate purchase”