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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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