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Prepare your home for buyers. New paint helps and is not expensive. Make sure it is clean, clean, clean. Most important and most over looked by sellers, you need to get rid of the clutter, inside and out. Less is more! Rent a storage facility or have a garage sale but get rid of the clutter. Less furniture makes a room look larger. Over stuffed closest are a real turn off to buyers who ALL want plenty of storage space. Get rid of all the nick knacks.

That curb appeal is so important. Please, get those yards cleaned up, front and back! An appraisal has pictures of the back yard and the front yard. I know this seems silly but a junky back yard tells an underwriter a lot about your home's interior and maintenance routine. A buyer may over look it but the appraiser and lender will not.

Next, get a home inspection performed. An inspector will check the structure and systems in your home. He may find things you are not aware of. It is better to find and repair these issues before the buyer's inspector does.

Spend the money to get a professional appraisal performed by a HUD approved appraiser. Do not rely on a real estate agent's market analysis. These are seldom accurate and can be $5000 to $10,000 off the mark.

A local mortgage broker can help you understand financing and the process involved. Most mortgage brokers have free FSBO programs that will help you immensely. It is important that you know what your costs will be based on the type of loan the buyer acquires. Did you know that a VA loan could cost you much more in closing costs PLUS home repairs that probably are not required by other loans? Will your home qualify for a FHA loan without making very costly repairs? If you are on a tight budget and need every possible dime out of the sale of your home you may want to negotiate in the contract that the buyer gets conventional financing.

Your mortgage broker will teach you the areas you need to watch in the sales contract. He may even provide you with blank contracts and other state mandatory disclosures required when you sell your home. Many will even create your home flyer and your financing options flyer. All buyers want to know two things: how much will my payments be, and how much money do I need to pay down plus closing cost.

You should list your home on a "For Sale By Owner" web site. I want to caution you here. A lot of these sites try to charge you a lot of money for things that do not/will not help sell your home. Homebuyers DO NOT spend hours searching "For Sale By Owner" web sites. They work with real estate agents, read the papers, and drive on the streets in the neighborhoods they want to live in.

The advantage you get by listing your home on the Internet is that you put the URL in your newspaper ads, your flyers, and on your yard sign. Then when a buyer drives by your house or sees your ad they can go on the Internet and see pictures, amenities, and the price. If your house fits their needs and their budget, they will call you. If not, it is less of a bother for you. It can be very frustrating to let lookey-loo's in your home week after week. Don't you really only want truly interested buyers at your door? There are many free FSBO websites on the net. Check it out.

The rest is just common sense and there is nothing to fear. You Can Sell It Yourself!

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With any good piece of advice on house selling, there's always some sort of evidence behind it that shows that it can work. "Spend two thousand dollars on gardening and you'll increase your sale price by $15,000!" Sometimes you will. Other times you'll just blow through $2,000 and still have to settle for below market rates on the sale. "I sold my house by auction and got $20,000 over asking!" That person probably did just that, but did they mention what happens when the auction doesn't fetch a high price?

The one piece of advice that we, as real estate professionals, always hear is "I'm going to try to sell it myself and save the realtor commission" ? and sometimes, wouldn't you know it, such a tactic actually works.

But other times, it doesn't, and the homeowner is left watching the value of their home drop, while the mortgage ticks up.

So what's the inside scoop ? should you try to 'sell by owner'? Is it worth it to save a 6% commission? The honest truth is, 'sometimes' - but there's very little chance of actually figuring out when that 'sometimes' is going to happen.

Real estate agents do provide a valuable service for all the money they take off you. They'll guide you through the sales process, tell you what the weaknesses in your property are, they'll run ads for you online and in print, they'll handle the paperwork, negotiate a price... there's a reason they take as much cash for their time, and that's that they're good at what you're not ? the inside info.

Added to that, more than a few property owners have found their sale harpooned at the last moment because they didn't have all the paperwork done, or the buyer hadn't been properly checked out and backed out late, or the property inspection revealed something was wrong that would require big money to fix... At the same time, there are plenty of happy 'sale by owner' sellers for whom everything went great, but do you really want to take the chance on something going wrong... and do you really want to give all those thousands of dollars to a realtor driving a Lexus, while you're getting by on a 14-year-old Toyota?

There is another way. More and more, home sellers who know they're going to make a profit on their sale are deciding to forego the realtor route, as well as the 'sale by owner' option, and are choosing to sell instead to companies that buy properties fast, for a slightly lower price than a realtor would be looking for, and have money in your hand ? today ? instead of in six months time.

These companies like AsIsNow.com, look at what your property is worth ? as is - give you that price for it, and then they spend the thousands of dollars and months of time, and weeks of labor and sweat, to bring the property up to its maximum value. For companies like these, they have the resources to sit on a property for months ? of even years ? waiting for the house to reach its potential; something that many home owners simply can't afford to do.

So if your property price isn't moving like you'd like it to be, and your house requires a lot of money spent to bring about a decent price in return, think about exploring that third option, and get the money you need today, so you can upgrade to a new home tomorrow.

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