Saturday Reporter-Herald August 13, 2011 D1
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the property to the family that ultimately made the offer, the buyers wanted to make sure they could fit their cars in the garage. In five minutes, everything came out of the garage, and the buyers were able to drive in their car. By cleaning out the garage ahead of time, our neighbors were able to comply with this request in short order.
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Use these tips to sell your home quickly Before you list your home for sale — before you even have agents walk ur neighbors recently put through and do a comparative martheir home on the market. keting analysis — you should clear They received an excellent of- out the clutter. Remove half your fer within 24 hours of listing the prop- clothing, some of your furnishings, erty and got more money for their and the old toys and books your chilhome than I thought they could. dren have outgrown. Prune your Meanwhile, two other neighbors “collections” and strip out anything have had their homes listed for a lot too personal. Our neighbors rented a longer and don’t have any offers. storage locker that was delivered to What did these neighbors do right? their home. Just about everything. Here are eight things you can do to CLEAN UP YOUR HOUSE increase the odds of selling fast, even While our neighbors’ house has in a slower market: always been spotless, they went
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CLEAR OUT THE HOUSE CLUTTER No matter how long you’ve lived in your home, it probably has too much stuff that’s accumulated over time.
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into overdrive to make sure the house was really clean. They hired people to do a top-down scrub of the property, so that every inch was gleaming.
Our neighbors had already bought a house. While they ultimately used the same agent to sell, they wanted to carefully consider their options. They had several different agents tour the GET YOUR HOUSE IN TOP SHAPE newly staged home and provide a Our neighbors hired their longcomparative marketing analysis time contractor to come in and touch-up paint on their porch and in- (CMA), which included a marketing terior walls. They cleaned the carpet, plan and suggested list price. They spent hours discussing which real esand repaired sticky doors and other tate company offered the best website items that weren’t really working properly. The house had a fresh, new- displays and the various prices the paint smell and showed off beautifully. agents thought they could get for the home.
DON’T NEGLECT THE GARDEN Our neighbors’ Realtor brought over some potted plants to give a visual lift to the front door and back patio. Then the gardeners removed ivy from the property and gave the back yard a special trimming.
MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE THE GARAGE AND ATTIC When our neighbors were showing
If you’re lucky enough to get a good offer soon after listing your property, consider it carefully. If the offer is above the minimum amount you’d happily take for your property, you should consider taking the money and running (especially if the offer is “clean” and doesn’t have a lot of contingencies). Agents always say the first offer is the best offer. As a seller, your goal is to think straight enough to recognize a good offer when you get it — and get the deal done.
For more information, call Glink’s radio show at 800-972-8255 on Sundays from 9 to 10 a.m., write to Real Estate Matters Syndicate, P.O. Box 366, Glencoe, IL 60022 or visit www.thinkglink.com.
IDENTIFY YOUR FUTURE BUYER It’s important to remember why you bought your house and what attracted you to the location. Use that insight to create a strategy to will market the
property to that buyer demographic. Our neighbors’ buyers turned out to be residents of the same community who wanted to live nearer to the train, buses and school, to give their own children more autonomy as they move through grammar and high school. Those are all things we enjoy about our location as well.
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