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If you live in an older home, you’re aware of the many benefits and appealing features, such as more square footage, high ceilings, beautiful wood trim and molding, and character. When you want to sell that older home, though, especially to young buyers, you may face some challenges – despite the benefits and features. You … Continued

Selling your home is one of the most stressful things you’ll ever do because there is so much at stake, especially money. But besides the stress-making high stakes, there’s so much much of it that’s out of your control. And a large part of the process involves simply waiting – waiting for the inspection report, … Continued

Technically, all you need is one buyer with the right offer to sell your home. But it’s usually an exercise in futility to just list and wait for that buyer to come along. To be in the driver’s seat as a seller, you need to bring in multiple offers, which typically allow you to be … Continued

Though some people take the FSBO route, most home sellers enlist the aid of a real estate agent – and for good reasons. Agents know the local market well, bring to bear negotiating skills, and make the whole selling process much easier. But they come with a price – real estate commissions. And, really, contrary … Continued

In real estate, as in any other industry or professional arena, you have the mediocre masses and the few star performers, the cream of the crop. And usually the best people aren’t the best because they were born with special abilities or talents. No, they are successful because they work harder, strive to be the … Continued

Long gone are the days when all you had to do to sell a house was put a sign in the front yard and an ad in the local paper. In today’s tough real estate market, online marketing and advertising are absolutely essential. Still, you have to do more than put your listing on a … Continued

So you’ve listed your house and shown it a few times, and now the offers are beginning to roll in. But how do you assess offers and determine the best or right one? Price – the amount of an offer – is not the only (or even the primary) factor involved in choosing the right … Continued

Even the best of homes typically require quite a bit of work to get them ready to sell. And then if you’re trying to make your house more family friendly, that work usually increases – from more attention to certain aspects of staging to different marketing tactics. Really, though, a lot of it is just … Continued