Ready to upgrade your home? Or maybe you want to downsize?
Perhaps you’re planning to relocate?
There are many, many reasons why you may want to or have to sell your home. Regardless of the reason why you’ve decided to sell, it comes down to this: selling your house for the best price as quickly as possible.
Here’s my best advice for selling a house:
1. Don’t Hire a Lone Ranger
Don’t hire just one person for one of the most important transactions of your life. One person alone will not be able to sell your home because one person cannot be the best at every skill that’s required. Here’s an abbreviated list of what’s required to sell a house:
- keeping up to date daily on activity in the housing market
- pricing your home realistically so that it is competitive but also maximize the cash you’ll receive at closing;
- writing compelling marketing content that will evoke the right feelings in home buyers;
- taking high-quality photos and videos highlighting the amazing features of your home;
- networking with agents who have buyers ready to tour and make offers on your home;
- capturing all the documentation and funds required to convey your property to a new owner;
- and much, much more.
And that’s why you want to hire a team instead of a lone ranger.
2. Retain a REALTOR® on a Team
Because there is so much required to successfully sell your home, hire a REALTOR® with a team that includes:
- marketing support from experienced web and print marketers to ensure maximum visibility for your home’s listing both online and offline;
- staging support from an experienced REALTOR® so that your home looks amazing in photos, videos, and when buyers tour;
- a professional, experienced photographer/videographer to capture the best that your home offers potential buyers; and
- administrative support from the moment your home goes up for sale all the way through closing when you’re ready to hand over the keys.
When an expert is required, hire an expert. But when you can hire a team of experts for the same price as hiring one person, you’ll hire a team every single time. That’s why I’m on the team at Florida Lifestyle Realty — we have the support you need at every step of the process, and for no additional fee.
3. Find a New Home
Once you’ve hired the right team and they work with you to get your home ready for sale, prepare to move.
Start decluttering — sell or give away stuff you don’t want or need.
Start packing what you want to move to a new home.
Retain a REALTOR® who serves as a buyer’s agent, someone who works for and represents buyers in real estate transaction. A buyer’s agent could be on the same team as the REALTOR® selling your home (or maybe it’s the same person selling your home because you really love him/her). Either way, hire someone you know, like, and trust to help you find a new home as quickly as possible.
Familiarize yourself once again with the costs involved in closing on the sale of your current home. Before you even agreed to work with your REALTOR®, s/he should have given you estimates of the costs involved in selling that home, so you’ll want to revisit that when you reviews offers for your home.