Home Selling 101

Ready to sell your home? Looking to taking a proactive position to get TOP DOLLAR. Realty Direct understands your goals. Our Home Selling Learning Center is packed with great information about renovations, home inspections, staging ideas, and more. We also recommend you review the following: and recommends the following for you to consider:

1. Setting the Right Price for Your Home
2. Creating an Extensive Marketing Plan
3. Small Updates Make a Big Difference

Realty Direct’s Agents are ready to help you achieve your goals. They are local and can provide you the information to make informed decisions. Realty Direct Services include FREE home price evaluation services, online national and local marketing plan, mobile applications to market your home faster and easier, and much more.

Currently, there are many aspects of home selling process including new short sale laws, new tax forgiveness laws and new tenant foreclosure laws. Here are just a few articles in the Learning Center:

* Short Sale is an Option

* New Tax Forgiveness Laws

* New Tenant Foreclosure Laws

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A Step by Step Overview of the Home Selling Process

This area will go over many aspects you the seller should be prepared for. Remember this area is to provoke thought. We will be able to answer and assist in the more advanced situations a seller might face.

1. Before Your Start

It is important to understand some general points before moving forward with making changes to your home and setting your final sales price.

* Check the Estimated Value of Your Home

* FSBO Woes: Why it’s So Hard to Sell Your Own Home

* Why Use a REALTOR When Selling?

* Tax Implications of Selling a Home

2. Setting the Sales Price

Setting the list price of your home is the most important step in your sale. Set too low, you lose money, but set too high and your home will not sell!

* Myths and Facts About Appraisals

* How Much is Your Home Really Worth?

* How to Price Your Home?

* How to Read Housing Market Stats?

* Set Your List Price

3. Preparing Your Home for Showing

A well presented home will sell faster and for a larger amount than one that is not presented properly. An agent will understand how to sell your home for the best price possible.

* Get the House Ready

* Tips For Handling Multiple Offers

* Setting the Stage Sells Your Home

4. Listing and Advertising Your Home

What does it mean to be in the MLS and how does it help? Is it better to try to sell your home by yourself or list with a local agent. These reports will attempt to shed light on this important issue.

* The Seller Listing Agreement: What’s it All About?

* The Basics of Marketing Your Home

* Who Benefits From an Open House?

5. Making the Sale and Picking an Offer

What should you do if you have several offers? Should you pick the first offer or wait for a certain period of time for more offers?

* After the Open House

* Picking the Best Offer

* The Home Inspector’s Coming

6. Making the Sale and Picking an Offer

There is much to know when it comes to closing and closing costs. Is the the buyer’s, seller’s, or both party’s joint responsibility to sell pay these costs? What are points and how do they affect your monthly payments?

* Closing-Related Tax Tips for Buyers and Sellers

* Fast Home Sale Tips

* Saving A Deal : Pointers

* Negotiating to Yes

* Contract Negotiation: Terms and Conditions