Thinking of Selling Your Own Home?

Whether you should or whether you'd want to will depend largely on your answers to the following questions:

1. Do you have sufficient knowledge of current (and ever changing) market conditions to price your home properly, to put it on the market at a price that will be attractive to both yourself and prospective buyers?
2. Do you have the skills to advertise and market your property effectively? Do you know how much advertising costs?
3. Do you have a network of contacts who can produce potential buyers for your home?
4. Are you a good negotiator? Will you be unnerved by aggressive buyers looking for bargains?
5. Do you have time to show your home to prospects? They'll want to look around when it's convenient to them, not necessarily to you.
6. Even if you have the time, can you deal objectively with negative comments prospects may make about your home? Not everyone will share your taste in decor or appreciate your improvements. Put yourself in the Buyer’s shoes….Do you feel comfortable viewing a home that you are considering buying when the owner is present?
7. Can you determine who among prospects is serious and has the necessary assets to buy, as opposed to someone who is merely making frivolous inquiries? You could be stuck with a buyer who can't get mortgage financing when the deal is about to close.
8. And speaking of mortgages, are you able to help a prospect arrange the necessary financing?
9. Are you conversant with the many laws and regulations that affect property ownership? you could find yourself in some difficulty with a buyer to whom you've disclosed certain facts because you didn't know about them.

Most people can answer yes to several of the questions……particularly to ones regarding telling people about the virtues & qualities of their own home. Many people in Sales & Marketing feel that they would feel quite capable of selling their own home. Take note though that many realtors even prefer to have a colleague sell/show their home and negotiate the deal as they are “too emotional regarding their own home”.

The majority of people though feel they have neither the time nor the skills to undertake the sale of a home. They prefer to rely on Realtors, trained and licensed real estate practitioners who are members of their local real estate board.

Carole can answer "yes" to all of the above questions. Carole & her team provide a variety of services designed to make the transfer of property from one owner to another as painless as possible for all concerned. She puts her entire team & every realtor in the city to work selling your home through the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). What's more, you'll pay her not one cent unless or until your house is sold, not matter how long it stays on the market.

Carole subscribes to strict Code of Ethics. She works in the communities where they live, and does well in the business because she generates repeat business from satisfied clients.

Want so sell your home? Contact Carole Evans and sell with complete confidence!

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