Selling your home can be very time-consuming and emotionally draining, especially if you’ve never done it before. The thought of complete strangers coming into your home, going over everything with a fine tooth comb. They will most likely criticize a place where you’ve made a family, memories and ultimately a home. Then, without blinking an eye, they will offer your much less than your house is truly worth.
With the inexperience and complex, emotional transaction on your hands, it’s easy for first-time home sellers to make lots of mistakes, but it’s my job to walk you through this process and avoid these troublesome pitfalls altogether.
You don’t need to know everything about buying and selling real estate if you hire a real estate professional who does. Henry Ford once said that when you hire people who are smarter than you are, it proves you are smarter than they are. We’re all looking for more precious time in our lives, and hiring pros gives us that time.
You’ve lived in your home for years and created strong ties and memories in it. People get emotional about their home – it’s just a fact of nature. As REALTORS®, our job is to keep your best interests in mind without giving up any information that might be detrimental to those negotiations.
Showings, phone calls, questions, documents, negotiations…selling your home can take a lot of time if you don’t have someone working for you. Our job is to help take the stress out of the process and accomplish your goals (do you want to sell for top dollar, do you need to move fast – these are the kinds of questions we ask to know how best to handle your personal situation).
Agents either possess intimate knowledge or they know where to find the industry buzz about your neighborhood. They can identify comparable sales and hand these facts to you, in addition to pointing you in the direction where you can find more data on schools, crime or demographics.
Agents take the spam out of your property showings and visits. If you’re a buyer of new homes, your agent will whip out her sword and keep the builder’s agents at bay, preventing them from biting or nipping at your heels. If you’re a seller, your agent will filter all those phone calls that lead to nowhere from lookie-loos and try to induce serious buyers to write an offer immediately.
Contrary to what some people believe, agents do not select prices for sellers or buyers. However, an agent will help to guide clients to make the right choices for themselves. Based on market supply, demand and the conditions, the agent will devise a listing price range.
Top producing agents negotiate well because they can remove themselves from the emotional aspects of the transaction and because they are skilled. Good agents are not messengers, delivering buyer’s offers to sellers and vice versa. They are professionals who are trained to present their client’s case in the best light and agree to hold client information confidential from competing interests.
Even the smoothest transactions that close without complications can come back to haunt. For example, taxing authorities that collect property tax assessments, doc stamps or transfer tax can fall months behind and mix up invoices, but one call to your agent can straighten out the confusion.
Founded on the two most important aspects to life, FAITH and FAMILY. We strive to bring you excellent customer service and to be your advocate when buying or selling a home. As this is one of the most important life choices you will ever make.
Where God Guides, He Provides -Isaiah 58:11
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