Sell Your Home Quickly

Total Care Home Inspections wants to give you some ideas on selling you home quickly. Ending up with more money at closing is what counts. This money, called net return, is the selling price of your home less your debt and costs. Spending big bucks on improvements and marketing might get you a higher selling price but won’t necessarily increase your net return. Your strategy is to do only those certain things that will likely increase your selling price more than the cost of doing them. Realize that you probably will not be able to do them all. So here are some tips.

• Be an informed seller. There is a lot of information on this Web Site that will assist you.

• Decide whether it is to your advantage to sell your house with an Agent or on your own. If you decide to go with an Agency, find an Agent in whom you can have confidence. Click here to choose an Agent in your area. You can compare backgrounds, experience, commissions and more. More information. If selling on your own, you can enhance your chances for success with a marketing partner such as For Sale by Owner.

• Familiarize yourself on how to price your house. Educate yourself. Selling a home is too imporant to pull a price out of the air. Knowing how much your home can be worth is one of the first steps in beginning to market the property. Click here for more information.

• Know what you can and cannot change about your house. This allows you to concentrate on those items that bring the highest rewards and ignore those that cannot be modified.

• Spend time on the house preparation phase--it will probably be the most productive time you can spend!

• Decide to do a pre-listing house inspection.

• Have a yard sale before you list. Sell, donate, or trash everything you don't need.

• Offer a Home Warranty with your house.

• Get familiar with financing options. Be at least as knowledgeable as your buyers.

• Develop an effective advertising and marketing plan on your own or with your Agent. If you are selling on your own, For Sale by Owner has a complete menu of services that are available. More information. Looking for a way to highlight your home? Envision It Sold can make a complete video presentation of your property at a reasonable price.

• Know how to best show your home.

• When it is time to negotiate, learn how to deal with offers and familiarize yourself with contracts. If you need to review an example of purchase offers, you can find forms for all states at a reasonable price on- line.

• Make moving plans early. Don't wait until the last minute!

• Know what is involved at closing and settlement.

More and more home sellers are opting having their house inspected before a buyer comes along. Pre-Inspections (seller inspections) are gaining great momentum in the real estate markets. While professional home inspections are not a new concept, the idea to have an inspection done at listing is beginning to gain acceptance. After all, why wait until there is a real estate contract on the line to find out if there are any significant defects in the home? Seller disclosure requirements are also causing sellers to take proactive measures to protect themselves during the sales process. Today's seller wants to close their deal knowing they made a full disclosure of the condition of the home sold.

The legal implications of seller disclosure requirements often put sellers in a difficult position. If a condition is found after a home has sold and was not disclosed, sellers may be asked to prove they were unaware of the problem. By having your home Pre-Inspected, you have documentation to supplement your Seller Disclosure form regarding what you did, and did not know the condition of your home.

HAVE YOUR HOME PROFESSIONALLY INSPECTED PRIOR TO PUTTING IT ON THE MARKET.

Eventually your buyer is going to conduct an inspection. You may as well know what they are going to find by getting there first. Having an inspection performed ahead of time also helps in seventeen other ways:

•  You can choose a certified NACHI, ASHI or NAHI inspector rather than be at the mercy of the buyer's choice of inspector.

•  You can schedule the inspections at your convenience.

•  It might alert you of any items of immediate personal concern, such as radon gas or active termite infestation.

•  You can assist the inspector during the inspection, something normally not done during a buyer's inspection.

•  You can have inspector correct any misstatements in the inspection report before it is generated.

•  The report can help you realistically price the home if problems exist.

•  The report can help you substantiate a higher asking price if problems don't exist or have been corrected.

 A seller inspection reveals problems ahead of time which:

• might make the home show better.

• gives you time to make repairs and shop for competitive contractors.

• permits you to attach repair estimates or paid invoices to the inspection report.

• removes over-inflated buyer procured estimates from the negotiation table.

•  The report might alert you to any immediate safety issues found, before agents and visitors tour the home.

•  The report provides a third-party, unbiased opinion to offer to potential buyers.

•  A seller inspection permits a clean home inspection report to be used as a marketing tool.

•  A seller inspection is the ultimate gesture in forthrightness on your part.

•  The report might relieve a prospective buyer's unfounded suspicions, before they walk away.

•  A seller inspection lightens negotiations and 11th-hour renegotiations.

•  The report might encourage the buyer to waive the inspection contingency.

•  The deal is less likely to fall apart the way they often do when a buyer's inspection unexpectedly reveals a problem, last minute.

•  The report provides full-disclosure protection from future legal claims. Include in your promotional packets, copies of the report along with receipts for any repairs made.