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Selling a home is no less tasking than home buying.  Though you always have to be on your toes while you are on a home buying chase, you are no less active when you have to sell a home.

In fact, you have to chase the buyers indirectly by placing ads in newspapers, on online classifieds portals, let the real estate agents know about opportunities, and spread the word through informal means like friends, relatives, and acquaintances too. So, there’s a lot of work cut out for you as a seller.

Many sellers, under the stress of finding the right buyer for their home, become nervous and start committing errors, which they regret later. So, be alert when you are meeting a prospective buyer and see your house getting the perfect buyer and you getting the best possible price.

Not Preparing Your Home Prior to Visit: Preparing your house to attract the perfect buyer is no less important than decking yourself up for getting the perfect mate. In fact, you must leave no stone unturned to make your house look clean, neat, and organized even if it is a simple and small abode to stay.

If your house is small, clean it perfectly, discard all the mess, and make it look more spacious. Greater the space inside your house, greater is the possibility that people will want to buy it.

Merely impressing your clients with numbers like the area of your house in terms of square feet won’t fetch you the perfect buyer. You must show what you speak. When your house is dirty, the buyers feel they have a lot of work to do with regard to cleaning up the mess, which could turn them off.

Not Talking Sense: Everybody wants the greatest possible price for their home. But, the opposite party is equally sharp too. Get a real estate appraisal done for your home and present the report to the buyers so that they trust you. Quoting an extraordinarily high price is likely to astound the buyers making them knock the next door offering their home for sale. So, talk sense when you are quoting the selling price of your house.

Not Hiring a Real Estate Agent: Many home sellers commit the mistake of skipping the estate agent and reaching out directly to the buyers through ads placed in newspapers or online classifieds. You may get buyers interested in your property that way, but your deal may not necessarily materialize. So, in order to accomplish your deal successfully in the least possible time, contracting an estate agent makes sense; estate agents know how to sweet talk the buyers into believing good things about your property.

They are professionals and better informed about the nature of buyers too. So, they will know when you are wasting your time on someone who won’t give you a good price or someone who’s just come for inspection but won’t buy. So, bank upon their knowledge and experience to the max.

Taking the aid of a residential real estate appraiser will tell you the right price of your home based on fair market value whereas taking the aid of an agent will help you with the people’s skills required to sell a home quickly and to the right buyer.

Author Bio: Aiesha Wells is the staff writer of RD Clifford Associates. RD Clifford Associates, that blogs about property appraiser and helps people on real estate investing.

 

Shelly Henderson
Shelly Henderson
Shelly calls herself a “Charlottean” because her family has been there since her elementary school days. She serves as Henderson Properties’ co-founder, along with her husband Phil, managing the day-to-day operations, social media branding and leadership development. Her different life experiences, both positive and challenging, earned the title to her first book Starting From Scratch. Shelly has a servant’s heart and leads her company with purpose and passion. She is mom to two sons who continue as young adults to make her heart swell.