Seller's Guide

What do you want to accomplish with the sale of your home? Do you want to make a certain amount of money that you can put toward a larger or nicer home? Are you looking for home features that your current house doesn't offer? Do you need to sell it as soon as possible to facilitate a move to a new city or area? Once you understand your needs, you can better craft your offer. If you're looking to sell your home and purchase a new one at the same time (as most people do), you're in the right place, and we are here to facilitate.

If you’ve kept your home in showroom condition since you’ve lived in it, you’re in 0.01% of home sellers. For the rest of us in the 99.9%, it’s time to start preparing the house to be shown to potential buyers. This includes getting rid of clutter, depersonalizing the space so that buyers can envision themselves in the space, making any small repairs, and doing a deep clean to make sure your home is in pristine condition. Once the home is prepared, your agent will schedule a professional real estate photographer and videographer to take photos and video for your listing. Keeping in mind that home buyers will be touring your home, prepare for how you will hide away 'daily necessities', where you'll take your pets, and where you will personally go during showings, if you're not at work. Best practice is for the home to be empty for showings aside from the prospective buyers and their agents.

Receiving offers is an exciting part of the process! We will evaluate each offer with you, making sure the buyers are financially qualified and the offer terms are acceptable to you. If the offer isn't quite what you are looking for, we can submit counter offer. As your agent, we are skilled negotiators and communicators to advocate on your behalf for the best offer possible.

You accepted an offer and are now much closer to the end of your home selling journey. Your agent and their team will monitor any contingencies (required activities) and ensure everything is moving forward smoothly and inline with the terms of the offer. In some cases, your home may need to be formally inspected, surveyed, and appraised. In other cases, major or minor repairs will need to be made before the house can close. In most cases, once the buyer signs the paperwork at the title company on closing day, they then own the home and have the right to begin moving in. Best practice is to be moved out prior to closing day to avoid any delays that could cause the buyer to delay signing/closing. Make sure to forward mail, change your address as appropriate, update the utility company, etc.