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Tips For Selling Your Home In 2021
2021 is right around the corner and there’s never been a better time than right now to start thinking about getting your home ready for sale next year. In this article, I’ll offer you several tips that you can do to start preparing your house right now to get it ready to list on the MLS and sold in the coming year. Tip #1 – Declutter Your Home De-cluttering your home is by far one of the most important things that you can do to get your house ready for sale. When you declutter, it’s best to create piles of the things that you want to keep, save for later,…
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Tips for Selling Your Home During the Fall and Winter Months
Are you planning on selling your Austin Texas home during the fall and winter months? Even though the real estate market typically slows down again right before Thanksgiving you can still successfully sell your home if you follow these tips. Tip #1 – Stage for The Season As a home seller, one of the most important things to know is that your focus should be on staging your home for the season because this will help your Austin Texas home to connect with buyers who envision themselves living there. Staging is as easy as incorporating season items that you buy at your local Dollar Store and hanging those items in…
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Tips for Selling Your Home During the Summer Months
Are you planning on selling your Austin Texas home this summer? If so, you’re making a smart choice because mortgage interest rates remain low while demand for real estate in the ATX area is high. If you’ve never sold a home before during the summer months, I will provide you with several tips to consider that will help make your home more memorable than others that a buyer may be thinking about buying. Tip #1 – Control the Environment Inside Your Home Since it’s summer in Central Texas everyone is having to deal with the heat. The good news is that you can turn the heat to your advantage by…
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Things you should not do when selling your home
Are you planning on selling your Austin Texas home? If so there are a variety of things that you should not do when selling your house including the following: Ovеrlооkіng еxtrа fееѕ at сlоѕіng “The іnсrеаѕе іn аffіlіаtеd business аrrаngеmеntѕ аnd mаrkеtіng ѕеrvісе agreements hаѕ hаd a negative impact оn ѕеllеr fees.” – Jое Gеntіlе, рrеѕіdеnt оf Federal Tіtlе & Eѕсrоw. Ask whеthеr thе buyer іѕ uѕіng a title company affiliated with thе buуеr’ѕ аgеnt brоkеrаgе. If so, thе ѕеllеr ѕhоuld іnѕіѕt on a nоnаffіlіаtеd tіtlе соmраnу tо protect thеіr іntеrеѕtѕ. Before ѕіgnіng thе соntrасt, ask fоr a wrіttеn ԛuоtе fоr seller’s fееѕ from thе title company. “Sеllеrѕ оftеn undеrеѕtіmаtе…
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Staging Tips That Will Help You to Sell Your Home Fast
Are you planning on selling your Austin Texas home? If so, staging is one of the best things that you can do before listing your home because a staged home provides the buyer with an idea for how the space that your home offers can be used. In this article, I will provide you with several staging tips that will help you to sell your home FAST. Tip #1 – De-Clutter Your Home Before you start staging your home, you should “purge” your home of all the excess things that you’re not using right now. This step is important because, with fewer items in your home, the house will naturally…
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Flat Fee Broker vs. Realtor – What’s the Difference?
If you’re thinking about selling your Austin Texas Home you most likely will have encountered several ads by now from flat fee brokers. A flat fee broker is someone who will offer to list your home on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) for $500 but is there a catch to the level of service that the offer? Yes. In this article I will break down the difference between a flat fee broker vs. a Realtor® just so you will know what to expect if you plan on hiring one or the other to sell your home in Austin or the surrounding area. What Should You Expect from Hiring A Flat…
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Should you sell your home due to financial hardship?
Following the collapse of the real estate market in 2007 I saw many Austin Texas homeowners fall behind on their mortgages and end up having to sell their homes via short sale or go into foreclosure. Sadly, besides the real estate downturn, there are a variety of other reasons why a homeowner can fall behind on their mortgage including a job loss, health issues or death of the primary income earner in the family but the big question is should you sell your home when these situations occur? In this article, I will provide you with tips on how to handle the situation when you’ve fallen behind on your…
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Selling Your Home In The Spring? Click Here For These Tips!
Are you planning on selling your Austin Texas home this spring? If so, there’s no doubt that spring can be an excellent time to sell a home especially if you follow these tips. 1. Learn thе mаrkеt Thе reports of a seller’s mаrkеt аrе grеаtlу exaggerated — whісh іѕ to say еvеrу zір code is dіffеrеnt. If уоu wаnt tо еxреdіtе a sale, your рrореrtу hаѕ tо bе mаrkеtеd properly аnd bе рrісеd аррrорrіаtеlу. 2. Avoid over-pricing Grаduаl price drорѕ ѕіgnаl tо house huntеrѕ thаt mоrе decreases are tо соmе pluѕ, іf уоur hоmе sits оn thе market long еnоugh, рrоѕресtіvе buyers wіll wоndеr what’s wrong wіth іt. In thе…
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Make the Closets in Your Home Look Bigger with These Closets Hacks
Are you planning on selling your Austin Texas Home in 2019? If so, one of the best things you can do to make your home stand out from other ATX homes for sale is by hacking or improving your closets by following these simple tips. Tip #1 – De-clutter Your Closets Do your closets have some clutter? This happens to everyone regardless if they’ve been living in a home for 5 years or 50 years. You will want to remove the clutter from your closets because, clutter makes even the biggest closet look small. To get started with de-cluttering simply create piles for things that you want to keep, donate…
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Should You Sell Your Austin Texas Home Before Halloween?
Are you thinking about selling your Austin Texas home but you’re not sure if you should sell it before Halloween or wait to sell it until the first of the year? If so, you’ve come to the right place! This time of year is actually a good time to sell a home because many people come to the Austin area to hang out with family during Halloween because they also love the events that the ATX area has to offer and they just might be in the market for buying a home here as well! Cool Facts About the Real Estate Market During Halloween Did you know that at least…
