Avoid These Most Common Seller's Mistakes
Your Abundant Color Home Staging Specialist
Will Help You Show it Well
In an ideal world home selling is a complicated and bewildering endeavor. The average home owner only sells a home a few times in a lifetime. You can avoid the most common mistakes, if you know what they are.
- Seller's Reason for Selling is Uncertain -- You should know your reason for selling and act appropriately. If you're not pressured to sell, you can take your time, prepare well and ask a higher price.
- Lack of Good Preparation -- If you're selling your house "as is" you'll get a far lower price. A buyer knows and won't pay for years of wear and tear.
- A Poor Agent Choice or "Sale by Owner" -- There are places to save money and places to spend it. Good representation and experience is definitely the place to spend your home sale dollars.
- Listing Too Long -- Many buyers watch the market long before they buy. If your home has been sitting on the market for months, it's a sign to buyers that's something is awry.
- Priced Too High -- Pricing a home involves many factors: location, condition and of course the market. It's a science and an art. Price it too high and you're making a mistake.
- Staying Around During a Showing -- As much as you want be around to see the potential buyers, believe me, you'll kill the spirit of the occasion. People need to feel free to look without someone watching.
- Poor Aromas -- Cigarette smoke, diapers, fruit, stinky perfume or old fruit can stop potential buyers right at the door. It's very true that odors leave impressions in memory like no other sense.
- Neglect of Your Mortgage Payment -- While you may have a promising buyer, you still have to continue your mortage payments.
- Missing a Good Offer -- The best rule of thumb is to hook the first one you can, even if your gut tells you that a better one might come along.
- Closing Too Soon -- There are significant tax advantages to sellers who own their homes longer than twenty-four months. Close too soon, and you'll miss it.
Stage It!
Show It!
Sell It!
Let Abundant Color help you avoid making the most common home seller mistakes.
For Your Home Staging Consultation Appointment call:
Jody Johansson
Abundant Color
630-968-0654
or
Email: info@abundantcolor.com
1616 Herbert St.
Downers Grove, IL 60515
