Selling a Home in California

Selling your home is an involved process that affects your family and your future. Before you begin this process, you'll want to ensure that you have the most up-to-date information. When should you sell? How do you get the best price? What kinds of renovations should be made prior to the sale?

Selling your home ? These home selling reports will assist you in answering the many questions that arise during the home selling process. When you're armed with the right information, and an experienced real estate professional, you'll be closer to reaching your goal - selling your home fast, and for the best price.

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Home Seller Reports

	Determine the Right Selling Price for Your Home When you’re selling your home, the price you set is a critical factor in the return you’ll receive... Read More
	Selling Your Home: Where do you begin? Now that you're selling your home, you'll need to look at it as if you were buying it all over again... Read More
	Avoid the Most Common Selling Mistakes There are some common errors that can be avoided when you are selling your home. I want to make sure you are well informed... Read More
	The Sweet Smell of a Successful Sale Remember that potential buyers want to imagine themselves calling your house their home... Read More
	The Best Way to Sell Your House...Get Lost! When you are showing your home, the best thing you can do is to make yourself scarce... Read More

Seller's Toolkit

Your Representitive

Your Needs/Wants

Your House

Your Market

Your Listing

Your Plan

1. Find the right representative
The experience and knowledge of a dedicated real estate professional can be priceless. A good Realtor® forms a powerful team with his or her clients that makes it possible for them to have a smooth, successful, stress-free sale.

2. Determine your needs/wants for the sale and for your new home
Selling your primary residence can be tricky because you have to simultaneously be thinking about where you would like to buy. First weigh your priorities – selling price is certainly important, but having a quick and efficient sale can often be worth accepting a slightly lower offer. Talk to your agent and make sure you’re comfortable with where your priorities are.

At the same time, you should be compiling a needs/wants list for the home you will buy. You will probably have to act fairly quickly when your house sells, so any amount of preparation you can do will serve you well.

3. Prepare your house for showing
Underprepared homes can be sales disasters. Your home will never get as much attention from potential buyers as when it is first listed, so clearing clutter, cleaning, making repairs, and putting your home’s best foot forward is essential. Don’t “open for business” until your home is ready to be seen as favorably as possible.

4. Find out what your local market looks like
Being realistic about your market is the key to a smooth sale. There is no substitute for a professional real estate representative when it comes to local market knowledge.

5. List away!
Lots of photos and online exposure are the key to getting a good response for your listing. Working with an agent who uses Point2 Agent software is a great step in the right direction. Now just “open” the house and sit back and wait for the flood of eager buyers!

Selling a Home in California

Home Seller Reports

Seller's Toolkit

Your Plan