Whether you’re planning to sell your home in the next few months or just studying up for that eventuality, there’s no time like now to prepare. If buying a house seems complicated, selling involves even more responsibilities and expenses.
Here are some common steps to selling your home
Prepare Your Home for Sale
Well before you’re ready to plant that “For Sale” sign in your front yard, there is work to be done to prepare your home for sale. Remember how keen your eye was to every small detail and defect in the houses you saw as a buyer? Now that door to your bedroom that never quite closed properly or that leaky faucet that you never got around to fixing will be seen by a potential buyer with that same keen eye. Start making the obvious repairs today – even if you don’t plan to sell until a year from now. These repairs can cost money and take time. Plus fixing it now will allow you to enjoy the results before it’s time to move out
Find a Real Estate Professional
If you’ve been through the home-buying process, you already know how complicated the real estate business can be. While you can opt to sell your home yourself, it can be time-consuming and often not worth the money saved on commissions. However, if you do hire a real estate professional as your selling agent, do your homework. Ask friends and family for recommendations, interview several candidates, attend a few open houses and watch the professional in action. Do you think this person would present your house well to potential clients?
Get Your Paperwork Together
After you sign the Listing Agreement with me or another real estate professional, your agent will need a lot of documents from you to prepare your home for sale. Among the things your realtor will want to see are: Pay-off Notice: a letter to your mortgage lender stating intention to payoff your home loan (when you sell your home). Assessments or Easements: if there’s a tax assessment or easement on your property, documents stating so will have to be included in the purchase contract. Property Taxes: proof of the property taxes you’ve paid.
Price Your Home for Sale
There are a number of factors that will affect the success of your home sale. These include: location of the home, interest rates, economic conditions, time of year, condition of the home, marketing the home, terms of the sale and accessibility to the home. Some of these are not within your control, such as the location of your home, interest rates and economic conditions. Other factors are those you’ll discuss with your real estate agent to determine what would most benefit the sale of your home. If you can, waiting for a good time to sell your home – spring or fall are the most popular home buying times – also may help it sell faster.
Market Your Home
Products that sell well usually have a good marketing strategy. The same can be said for your home. Strategize with your realtor about different ways to market your home. For example, in addition to the “traditional” ways to market a house, consider posting your listing on Craigslist. Set up a Twitter account and tweet about your neighborhood, its amenities, the schools, activities in your town. Ask your real estate agent to videotape the interior of your home and download the video to YouTube. Be sure your Craigslist ad and Twitter account lead visitors to the video. When a potential buyer arrives for an “open house” or drives by and sees the for sale sign, you’ll want to provide a home profile handout that they can take with them.
Respond to an Offer
Depending on market conditions, you may receive one or more offers for your property from interested buyers. Each offer will include the proposed offer price, proposed closing date, proposed move-in date, financing, and contingencies that may include an appraisal or sale of the buyers’ current home. I will help you sort through the variables to determine whether you should accept, counter-offer or reject the offer.
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Miguel has helped us with the purchase/sale of our three homes during the timespan of 11 years. Miguel always had our best interest at hand. He was always very responsive and made sure all our questions/concerns were addressed. I would highly recommend d Miguel to any potential buyer/seller. 
February 20, 2019carlost1 I have done some business with Mr Barrera and I can say He is a very knowledgeable and respectful agent. He negotiated couple of properties for me and we are still going for more.
February 26, 2016thedonguillermo79 Awesome! Is the ones word I can use to describe our experience with Miguel. First of all he was able to get multiple offers on our home we put up for sale after one, just one open house and not only that but he got us the necessary time to stay in our home until we found our new home. Then after looking at many homes Miguel was very patient with looking at homes with us. He was on point with what we were looking for and in the area we were looking for but we saw many homes because we wanted to make this house our final stay. Once we found the house that's when Miguel really got to work and got busy. Miguel made recommendations to us on how to go about negotiating with the sellers and told us what to expect. After negotiating he was able to get our offer accepted and we could not be more happy. We want to thank Miguel again for everything he was absolutely outstanding.
September 1, 2017 - candiduvon Miguel Barrera is a true Professional!! Miguel understood the importance of selling our home at or above asking price and followed thru with the perfect sale. Not only did he sell my home, but he helped in guiding me to my temporary home. He exemplifies what it is to be a expert in his field thru effective communication and determination to sell. I would highly recommend Miguel for all your Real Estate needs and will personally continue to utilize him for my future endeavors.
February 9, 2019zuser20160418093406839 Miguel is an outstanding real estate sales professional that goes way beyond his responsibilities as an agent. He was very professional with the sale of our home, something that I really admire about Miguel is his dedication and attention to this customers, I had a wonderful experience in selling my home with him.
I would definitely recommend Miguel for any real estate business, and I will continue using his service in the near future.
Thank you Miguel for such an amazing job.
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Angel Duvon
May 2, 2019lightitupla Miguel Barrera, really knows how to get someone to get the house of there dreams, he has maid a good deal and found a way to assist with experienced people to help get the sale done for you and family.
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April 22, 2016 - user16545907 As a long time investor in the local market, I would like to recommend Miguel to all homeowners, home buyers and investors. He understands the local market and knows what is currently happening street by street. He has always been very responsive to my needs and always available when the time comes. The professionalism he displays is also second to none. As a real estate investor, I have worked with many agents and definitely recommend Miguel for those in need of an agent.
Sean I.
Inticapital Equities, LLC
March 3, 2016
