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Preparing Your Home Renovate or Move? Sell or Buy? Market Value The Selling Process Common Errors Moving Checklist
 

What Might Your Home Be Worth?
There are many factors involved in pricing your home.  Click here to find out what your home may be worth.

Preparing Your Home
The decision to buy a house is not solely based upon rational factors such as price, location and accessibility to services. It is also an emotional choice. It is a search for a home, a place in which one will find comfort, security and happiness, a place one would want to settle down and live in.

Renovate or Move?
It is never easy to uproot your family and move to a new home, especially if you have settled in and grown comfortable where you are. This is why we are often tempted into over improving our homes instead of just moving to something that meets our changing needs. While it is difficult to separate emotions and memories from financial considerations, it is often helpful to step back and look at what sort of return you get when investing in a major renovation.

Sell or Buy First
Should you wait for the right home to come on the market before putting your current home up for sale or should you sell first and then go out and find what you want?

Market Value
A realistic asking price will help to sell your home quickly and for top dollar. By properly pricing your home you ensure that the gap between the asking and selling price is small and that there will be a greater likelihood of competing offers. Your home will also maintain its 'marketability' for a longer period of time before people start to say... "That home has been for sale forever. What's wrong with it?"

The Selling Process
To give you an idea of what is involved in selling a home, click here to take a look at the Home Selling Process.  This is a flowchart breaking down the steps typically used in selling a home.  Not every step is listed, and some steps may not apply to your situation, but here you can learn the "big picture" of home selling.

Common Errors to Avoid When Selling
The selling and buying of a house can be a stressful and confusing process. Not only is it very expensive to 'learn from your mistakes' but very few people move often enough to gain the needed experience.

Moving Checklist
Moving can be such a stressful undertaking that we often get distracted and forget to do the little things like forward our mail or change our driver's license address.
 

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