A Home Seller's Checklist

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Real Estate Attorney Consultation
• How to Establish Market Value
Plumbing Assessment
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• A Pre-Inspection Guide FSBO Marketing Kit
Home Warranty
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Upper & Lower Court Case Search
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Prescreening of Prospective Buyers
Home Staging
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2. Home Selling Checklist
Selling a piece of property can be a very overwhelming
experience and for many home owners they often may THE checklist for selling YOUR home.
overlook a situation or a small piece of information in
the beginning of the process that later becomes an ✓ Are you sure you are pricing the property in line with ✓ How much actual sales exposure can you obtain with
obstacle for a successful and profitable sale. today’s market? one house and one sign and one ad and yourself?
For over 34 years, we have worked with buyers and ✓ Are you prepared to follow up on the prospects ✓ Will your sale be the result of chance or luck or the
sellers and have learned that the best outcome is the without seeming anxious? result of intelligent, planned effort whereby the whole
result of the best preparation. market is reached?
✓ Who will make the best
There are three FIRST STEPS that any FOR SALE loan on your type of ✓ All commitments should be in writing; how do you
BY OWNER property must take to get the most home in your location do this?
favorable results. at this time?
✓ Who will handle the abstracting, liaison
First: A Current Market Analysis ✓ Can you eliminate between attorneys, correcting the abstract,
the “lookers” and preparing conveyance papers, paying
Second: A Home Marketing Strategy
the unqualified? taxes, assessments, mortgages, preparing
Third: Have several financial resources prepared in statements for future reference income
anticipation of when an acceptable offer is ✓ How can you tax-wise and handle earnest money
presented. avoid the natural disbursements?
sensitivity one
feels in dealing ✓ Since most home-buyers prefer to work with
face-to-face that a real estate agent, how will you pre-qualify
sometimes results in them before they arrive?
antagonism?
✓ Can you arrange special financing
for a “good buyer” when he is a little short?
✓ When is it best to show a house since you have
been living there and know all its faults? Are you the
person to show it to best advantage?
✓ How will you advertise your property? How big of an
ad should you run? Do you state the price, address
and describe it fully?
Providing the Answers, ✓ How will you field the phone calls? How will you keep
the house ready at all times in case a buyer decides
the People and the Products to to look?
Help You Sell Your Home FAST! ✓ What facts do you have to substantiate your claims
as to value?