Thursday 18 September 2008

Home sweet home - How To Market Your Own House

We always feel comfortable in our own home. Like they say, “there is nothing place comfortable like home”. Yes, that is true. But what if you want to sell your own home? Selling your own home can be difficult at one time, because you cannot see your own home as a property to sell. You are used to the way of your home looks and functions and there be no problems with that. But homebuyers see things differently, they is if the house is still proper to live in, is the house is clean and tidy, is the house has spacious area for the whole family, is it a secure neighborhood, etc.

Selling your own home can be a fun or maybe exhausting activity because you have to prepare your home and fix the flaws or defect of your home. You can choose by yourself whether you want to sell your own home by yourself or you may want to use a real estate agent to sell your home. Every choice has its own advantages and disadvantages. Because it is your home, you can decide it by yourself. One thing you should also remember that every choice that you make should gain more benefits to you.
If you do not want to bother by this “selling home” matter, then you can use a real estate agent to sell your home right away with reasonable price that you or the agent suggest. The real estate agent will take care all of the documents and arrange the meeting between you and the buyer. The agent also prepares the open house if you don not have much time to do it. At the end of the closing time, this agent will cut your home price up to 6% for his service to help you to sell your own home. Even tough you will loose some dollars for the agent, at least your home is sold with the price that you want and you do not have to think about the documents and the permits either. Everything is prepared and finished by this agent.

Those are the steps for getting your house ready to sell to a buyer.

Beautify your exterior

What you do is just beautifying. The goal is to make your exterior look pretty and fresh to impress your buyer. Just to inform you that the exterior becomes the first impression to overlook a house. There are two sensory organs of a buyer you must impress. Those are eyes and nose. By bringing the garden homelike condition to your house exterior, making it looked pretty and freshening it up. The steps you can do are:

- Get the grass, trees, flowers, and plants tidy and fresh by mowing and watering it

- Clean up the curb and entering path and put the potted flower in the sides.

- Freshen up the smells by put scented potpourri.

- Clean up all of windows and entering doors.

- Get rid of equipments out of sights.

- Paint the walls if necessary.

Make the Cosy Interior

After buyer got impression from your house exterior, do some simple works to get the cosiness of your house interior. It aims to make a buyer feel homelike buy entering your house. These are the steps:

- Clean up the tile floors; scrub it if there are some bad spots.

- Get rid of spider net from your ceilings.

- Wash the carpets with a fragrant soap.

- Get your furniture placed tidily and gets rid of unnecessary one.

- Brush the closets

- Clean the garage, basement, and attic

- Get the windows opened and clean, it will bring freshness to your house inside

- If you have pets, bath them.

- Put some fresh fragrance in air conditioner.

Repairing and Replacing

Some Repairing and replacement is necessary to do, if there are some broken furniture, equipment, or appliances. Just check out:

- broken or missing door

- ceilings

- ventilation filters

- broken tiles in bathroom and kitchen

- faucet

- wallpaper

- some furniture


Get your friends’ opinion

Assume some friends like a buyer, and get some advice and suggestion to make your house get more ready to sell. And the most important thing is your friends feel your home like their own home.

But what if you want to sell your own home by yourself? It still possible, as a matter of fact, you will save more dollars because you do not have to spend more money on real estate agents. However, selling your own home by yourself need extra works and extra time and extra energies since you will be doing all things from a to z in selling your own home. The fun fact is that you can stress up your home’s best points to the buyers and negotiating the price directly with them without any third party such as the real estate agent. You can find information about selling your own home by yourself on the web or newspaper about the price of houses.

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You have to be smart in selling your own home. Do not sell it at low price so that it will cost you more money, or at high price so that the buyer will be scared away and leave.

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