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Here are some tips for buying a home
- Find a REALTOR® you will enjoy working with and committed to you, with your best interest in mind.
- Financing: get qualified and pre approved. There’s no point in looking at homes, cabins or land that is out of your price range or looking at those that are priced under what you would really like to look at.
- Decide what things you just can’t live with out. If you know what it is you must have in your new home, cabin or land let your REALTOR® know, it will make his or her search for you much more affective.
- Sit down with your agent and go through the MLS. When you and your agent search the multiple listing service for the home, cabin or land you’re looking for have the agent input the criteria you require. No sense in spending time looking at properties that aren’t what you want.
- Drive by homes you are interested in. If you have picked out several properties you might be interested in you may want to just do a drive by before you have your agent set up a showing. There are times when what you see on the picture or what has been written about a certain property and what it really looks like are two different things.
- Be loyal. You expect your agent to be loyal to you and have your best interest in mind, and I suggest you extend the same courtesy. If you happen to drive by a property, see the for sale sign and are interested, call the agent you’ve been working with and he or she will get you more information about the property and set up a showing if you would like to pursue it further.
Here are some tips for selling a home
- Be prepared to see your home in a new light, as a product to be marketed. This may or may not be difficult for you but the place you have called home and have possibly grown very fond is now going on the market to be sold.
- Curb Appeal is of the utmost importance. If the home you are trying to sell does not look inviting from the outside you may not get a buyer to even get out of the car to look at the inside. Spruce up the yard, make sure the lawn is mowed, paint if needed, do what you can to get the buyer inside.
- Neatness, cleanliness and staging have an enormous impact. First impression can be everything. The first steps a potential buyer takes into your home will have an enormous impact on how he or she looks at the rest of your home. At a minimum make sure your home is clean and orderly. Paint if needed, shampoo the carpet, scrub down the kitchen, get rid of clutter and that includes too much furniture, it can make rooms seem too small. Don’t forget fresh or new towels in the kitchen and bathrooms. Last but not the least do not neglect the attic and basement; those areas can be the difference between a sale and no sale.
- Fix it. If something in your home is broken, get it fixed before selling your home. Little things can have a big impact on potential buyers. When a potential buyer opens the closet and the door falls off the track they may assume the rest of the house is in the same disrepair. The same can be said about the knob missing or broken on the kitchen cabinet, the lose railing going up or downstairs, the hinge that’s lose on the door, the faucet that keeps on dripping. I could go on and on but I know you get the point, get it fixed.
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