Selling Your Home? Discover How to Avoid Costly Mistakes

With a little information and attention, expensive mistakes for the homeowner can be

avoided.

Price

The single biggest mistakepeople make is setting theasking price too high. Anamount suited both to the

home and to the market conditions attracts thegreatest number of prequalified buyers,increasing the likelihood that you’ll get a higherprice in the end.

Home Staging

Houses not shown at their best are anothersource of lost profit. Act on any advice you aregiven about cosmetic changes and minorrepairs. A clean, tidy and sweet-smelling homegoes without saying.

Set viewing hours for the greatestaccessibility to buyers. In acompetitive market, people caneasily go elsewhere and fall inlove with another house.

Don’t be home during the showings. Prospectivebuyers feel more comfortable raising concernsand poking about when the current owners arenot present.

Remove as many personal itemsas possible. The things that markthe house as yours interfere withthe buyers’ abilities to imagine itas theirs.

Other Considerations

Sell before you buy to avoid loss of negotiatingposition at both ends. Plan for the move early,and pack as much as you can as soon aspossible.

Randy Bettwww.BetterGroupRealEstate.ca