When preparing to sell a home, you may be dealing with a lot of mixed feelings for example, letting go of all the memories in the old house, yet looking forward to new and exciting adventures in a new one. It also is a very hectic time, especially if you moving out of the area. There will be the going-away parties with neighbors and at work, ensuring you have changed your address with everyone, and coordinating the sale of your home with the purchase of your new one.
Your realtor(s), both for selling the old home and for buying the new one, can be of great assistance to you in coordinating these transactions and avoiding the domino effect of the closing, moving and closing dates. Your realtor gets everyone to commit to a window of dates and also to stick to them. The realtor will get all agreements in writing and can place financial penalties on any party who fails to comply.
Curb Appeal
Your realtor is used to viewing home and property from the potential buyers perspective. He/she can be essential in assisting you to prepare your home with a strong curb appeal. It is important for your property to be visually appealing in order to attract more potential buyers and garnering a quicker sale.
The realtor will look at the exterior, which should be well maintained with trimmed trees and shrubs, nothing sitting around to detract from the property’s appeal, foundations without cracks, and well maintained and cleaned window casings, gutters, chimney, shutters, siding, doors and moldings. Anything that needs painting should be painted. If you are not sure, ask your realtor. Ensure the garage door always is closed when not in use.
Another area your realtor will review is the interior, where there are plenty of improvement areas that do not cost a lot to do but make a world of difference in buying appeal. Clean all the windows inside and out with no streaks. Make sure floors, tiles, tubs, showers and faucets sparkle. The same for kitchen appliances, especially ranges, ovens, refrigerator and freezer inside and out. Give the carpets a good cleaning, even if you recently did this. Ensure there are clean filters in the heating and air conditioner. Repair squeaky floors and oil squeaky doors. Ensure the faucets do not drip. Your realtor will advise you of many other inexpensive things that will add buyer appeal to your home.
Once your home is ready to show, your realtor will provide invaluable services to you. He/she will establish a fair asking price for your home, based on the location, economic conditions, supply-demand of the local market, seasonal influences, school availability in the area, the average home prices in the neighborhood, and the extra features and amenities of your home.
Next, your realtor will promote, advertise and market your home at no cost to you, using resources not available to homeowners who prefer to self-sell their homes.
Your realtor will schedule all showing appointments, negotiating times that are convenient for you without losing the potential buyers. The realtor will qualify interested buyers, weeding out those who cannot qualify for a mortgage; and then help you negotiate a sale price with the buyer.
Another service of your realtor is referrals for insurance, inspections, legal counsel and financing. Your realtor may even be able to refer you to a lender for a bridge loan, if you are forced to purchase a new home before you have sold your current one. A bridge loan helps, when you are forced to carry mortgages on two homes simultaneously over a short duration.
Rely on your realtor when selling your home. Experience in the industry gives the realtor a unique perspective that can only assist in a good sale for your home.
John Harris
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how would you handle your mother if she were like mine?
my mom will not call me back when i leave her messages on her answering machine for almost 2 weeks each time i leave her a message.the longest she has gone without calling me back after calling her is like 3 weeks.she always has been bad about talking to me or wanting to invite me to do things.when i have told her about how this makes me feel she gets upset with me as if i am being too needy.we usually end up in yelling matches and i end up crying because i get so upset and frustrated with her when she won’t consider my feelings.last night she tried to call me three different times and i avoided her.i was home two of the times she called.the first time she called i wasn’t at home.i just know she isn’t going to be very friendly with me if i tell her that i have decided not to go to thanks giving at her family’s place this year and probably won’t again until she starts coming around more and starts treating me with more respect.also because of me going my own way with the selling of my house and getting a buyer who is giving me alot lower price than what she expects it to be even with us going with a realtor she told us to go with.anytime she suggests something and i don’t listen to her then she blows up about and we get into a yelling match.we got into a huge fight about how much i was going to sale the house for and because i wouldn’t listen to her advice.i listened to the advice of the realtor she suggested and she still was upset with me.was it wrong of me to avoid her last night.i almost feel i need to write her an email explaining to her why i didn’t answer the phone but then again, like i said, when i have tried to talk about how i feel about things, we usually end up fighting about it.i do feel bad about avoiding her last night but at the same time i don’t want her thinking i am going to back down all the time and call her back or answer the phone right when she decides to call me back two weeks after leaving a message.how can someone who don’t have a job be that busy that they can’t call back until two weeks later every time?don’t it sound like she is avoiding me?the other thing she says that makes me mad is that she don’t like talking on the phone much.thing is she talks to her brother for hours on end when they visit each other.she also has a friend in texas who she’ll talk on the phone for hours on end.when she does call me back my mom will say "we haven’t talked in a while and i just wanted to see how you are doing."when i tell her she can call me anytime she says that she is afraid she will bother me and my husband.i have even tried to tell her his schedule so that she can call when we’re not together if she is worried about catching us while we’re together.she got all hateful and said she wasn’t going to be keeping up with his schedule just so she’ll know when to call me.also she has said the reason she don’t call back until then is because she don’t always check her answering machine or her caller id much and that her live in boyfriend don’t tell her when i call.again i think this is all ploys to avoid me.she got all mad last night too when i never answered the phone and she had to leave a message after the third time of calling me.should i try again to explain to her through an email why i didn’t answer the phone and how she hurts me or is it just a lost cause since it hasn’t helped before talking to her about it numberous times on the phone which always seems to cause a conflict?i just know i will have prepare for the worst and that is what scares me i guess if i do decide to keep ignoring her.i am sure she will call all upset from me avoiding her and get hateful and also she will probably try to talk to my husband and ask him if he is trying to come between her and i.he just wants to see me happy and hates to see me crying because of arguments my mother and i have had on the phone and tells me that i just should not talk to her or have anything to do with her until she comes around more and treats me with respect.how would you handle this situation if your mother was this way to you?was i mean to not pick up the phone last night? what if she keeps trying to get ahold of me and i am always ignoring her.i guess what i am saying is i would like her to come out and appologize after me not talking to her but i don’t know if that will ever happen.
first you were busy and didn’t call her back. The end. When she doesn’t call you back why are you making a big deal over this. If she is mad that is her problem. You are just taking a page from her book. Don’t worst about it. If you feel like talking okay, if not, ok too.
If she yells tell her you’ll call her when she can settle down and hang up. You are not a child . If she acts like one treat her as one. But give her a buy if a break due to her age.
Tell her that when she calls you back you will work harder to return her calls.
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