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Why you should choose Your Local Home Team to sell your home
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For most families, selling your home is one of the biggest financial decisions they will ever make. The process can be daunting, with many important questions that need to be answered. Choosing the best real estate agent to market and sell your home can make all the difference, turning an otherwise difficult, stressful process into a comfortable, informed experience that you are in control of. As a top Lake Mills area real estate agent, I will make sure that you get the best price for your home, in the least amount of time. |
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Or read below for more information on selling your home with Your Local Home Team
How To Get Top Dollar In Any Market
The best chance for selling your property is within the first seven weeks. Studies show that the longer a property stays on the market, the less the seller will net. Below are 5 main factors to accomplishing this goal.
-Pricing Factor
It is very important to price your property at a competitive market value right when you list it. The market is so competitive that even over-pricing by a few thousand dollars could mean that your house will not sell. It's interesting, but your first offer is usually your best offer. Here are reasons for pricing your property at the market value right from the start in order to net you the most amount of money in the shortest amount of time.
- An overpriced home:
- Minimizes offers
- Lowers showings
- Lowers agent response
- Limits financing
- Limits qualified buyers
- Nets less for the seller
80% of the marketing is done when we decide on what price to list your home. If you are unwilling to list at current market value, you would be better off not putting it on the market at this time.
-Clean Factor
Most people are turned off by even the smallest amount of uncleanness or odor when buying a home. Sellers lose thousands of dollars because they do not adequately clean. If your house is squeaky clean, you will be able to sell your home faster and net hundreds, if not thousands of dollars more. If you are planning on moving, why not get rid of that old junk now so that your house will appear larger? Make more space. Odors must be eliminated especially if you have dogs, cats, or young children in diapers or if you are a smoker. You may not notice the smell, but the buyers do! Most agents have a difficult time communicating to their sellers about odor. If you employ an agent to get the most amount of money for you, please don't take offense if he must confront you about odor problems.
-Access Factor
Top selling agents will not show your home if both the Key and access are not readily available. They do not have time to run around town all day picking up and dropping off keys. They want to sell homes! The greatest way to show a house is to have a key! When your home is being shown, please do the following:
- Keep all lights on
- Keep all drapes and shutters open
- Keep all doors unlocked
- Leave soft music playing
- Take a short walk with your children and pets
Our Commitment
We are committed to providing world class-service to you. With professional, courteous, and responsive service, we will help you meet your real estate needs and goals. We will:
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Keep you informed every step of the way.
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Work hard to get results and provide you with enough information to help you make informed decisions.
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Design a marketing plan tailored especially for prospective buyers
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Provide comparative information about the current marketplace.
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Act in your best interest throughout the entire transaction.
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Prepare a comprehensive feature sheet for buyers
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Show your house to pre-qualified buyers
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Regularly share feedback from showings of your property
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Help you evaluate every offer submitted
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Manage the many details of the transaction
Showings
Making your home more showing friendly is the key. Here are some ideas for having a good showing of your home.
- Curb Appeal – Buyers are impressed from the first time they drive up to your home. Small details like having the lawn mowed or walkway shoveled. Flowers planted and all trees trimmed. Anything to make your home more appealing.
- Before a showing bake some cookies or a pie. If you have a bread machine, start it to cook during the showing. One more way to give it that “ home sweet home” feel. Buyers will remember your home for the look and smell.
- Leave all closet doors cracked open. This will encourage buyers to look at all the special features of your home.
- Make sure your home is clean, this includes the windows. Clean windows allow more light to pass through, making your home seem more open and friendly.
- “Lights, camera, action” Turn on all lights as possible. The more light you can bring in to a room, the larger your rooms will appear.
Buyers remember homes for small reasons. Some buyers will look at several dozen homes before making a decision. Following these small tips will help buyers remember your home over all other homes they have looked at.
Price
Unfortunately, buyers dictate what the price of your home will be. They will be the one looking and buying your home. When we determine a price for your home we look at what similar homes in your area sold for and houses that are currently on the market. We do look for several items:
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The price the house sold for
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The price the house was listed for
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How long it took to sell
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How the house compares to your house
Time Frame
The first 30 days are crucial for selling your home. In those first 30 days are when there is the most activity on a house. If you have now offers to purchase in the first 30 days, you should look at your price again. A house can and still does sell in more time. However, wouldn’t you like to sell your home sooner?
Convenience
Let us do all the work for you. We handle all phone calls so you can rest easy. Any prospective buyers that want to see your home are pre-qualified for income levels. This way any buyer that does come through your home is a serious buyer, not a “tire kicker.”
We let you choose whether or not to do open houses. Remember this may become an inconvenience to you. We would rather have a Real estate agent pre-screen all buyers for a personal showing.
Expanded Marketing
Today many more buyers are using the Internet to search for homes. For this reason, we have expanded my marketing to more than just placing a sign in the yard, and placing an ad in the newspapers.
One of the major Real Estate sites in the county right now is www.REALTOR.com. For this reason we have included all of our listings on this web site. We also have our own separate web page from Realtor.com this allows us to place up to 6 pictures of each home on the site.
Also we have our own personal web site for more information. On our site, out of town buyers can receive information on Jefferson County its cities and schools. More importantly your home will also be placed on our site as well. We also have on our web site the ability for buyers to get pre-approved over the Internet. This allows us to work with only qualified buyers.
Besides our personal sites, your home will be on
www.FirstWeber.com, www.Wihomes.com, www.wisconsinhomes.com , www.homegain.com, www.yahoo.com
You can view our personal sites
How would you like your home exposed to this many people?
Virtual Tours
Experience home selling in a new way over the Internet. Virtual tours allow buyers from out of town and locally to view your home. With this new technology you can move around a room and view all areas.
This is allows the ultimate exposure of your home with the least amount of inconvenience to you. These virtual tours are placed on several web sites, including our own personal site.
Please go to anyone of these sites to view the future of selling real estate. Please note virtual tours are optional if you prefer not to have one. Please call us if you have any questions or concerns.
Neighborhood
We will always talk to all your neighbors about selling your home. They love to have information about your home, most of time they do have friend that wants to move into to the area. Who better to help sell your home?
Newsletters
We have a monthly newsletter that we e-mail out to over 400 people and this list continues to grow. We let everyone know about our new listings.
Local Realtors
There are 40% of the real estate agents that do 80% of the business in Jefferson County. As soon we get a new listing we call these agents directly; they may have a buyer for your house already!
Multiple Listing Service
We setup each of our listings into a MLS (Multiple Listing Service) to provide information to other realtors and other buyers that are looking for a new home. The MLS system provides photos, house description, and other information that a buyer might want to know about a home.
Technology
Everyone talks about how technology is the wave of the future in real estate. We believe this to be true, only if you use it properly. A 10-year-old can build a web site. A professional can take that web site and take leads and turn them into sales.
Here are some of the ways we use technology to it fullest.
E-mail
We have a written record of when and what we said to each person.
Palm Pilot
Our address list, calendar, to do list, closing and listing information in the palm of our hands. We are never out of touch.
Contact manager program
Top Producer is a software designed only or real estate. This allows us to keep a journal of everything we do for each transaction. It is like having a personal assistant.
Cell phone
Well this is pretty common; however we go one step further. If you call our office phone and we are not there, the call is forwarded to our cell phones. The result, we receive all of our messages instantly.
Every home is different we work with you the homeowner to develop a plan that will work.
If you would like to learn how Your Local Home Team will market your home give us a call for a no obligation consultation.
Your Local Home Team
262-719-7393
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