🏠What Mistakes to Avoid When Selling Your Custom Built Home in WA

Selling your home could be a daunting task. It takes a great deal of time and effort. Many properties dwindle on the market for months, even years. Learning these mistakes to avoid will result in a successful sale.

1. Overpriced property

Ask yourself this if you are the buyer. “Is this property worth the price”?

Setting the sale price too high can reduce the number of interested buyers. Your property could sit idly on the market for months, even years. Home buyers might not even schedule a visit!  

Eventually, you will have to drop the price anyway.

An experienced realtor can help with this. With their knowledge of the current market, they can definitely help you set an appropriate price for your property.

2. Unkempt property

A lot of home buyers become disappointed with a neglected, unkempt house.

Clean and get rid of the clutter. Make sure it’s in its best shape.

Start your long list of staging your house before putting it on to the market.

You can hire a professional stager or you can do it yourself.

3. Maintenance issues

This is one mistake home sellers do that frightens buyers away. Buyers will definitely see the holes in your wall and your leaking roof.  

Realistically, they want a property ready for moving in.

Maintenance is one long list of to-dos. Invest some money in basic refurbishments.

This way, you will be confident to present your custom built home for sale.

4. Overcapitalizing

Spending too much on upgrades and refurbishments could backfire. It’s best to ask your realtor how you could avoid going overboard with repairs.

Evaluate potential gains and losses and make sure it’s within your acceptable range.

5. Not advertising

How fast you sell your house depends on how you advertise it. You could have the perfect property in town but you don’t attract buyers.

Entice them with a variety of advertising methods including internet listings, newspapers or even signage outside your home.

You may find custom built homes in Warrenton VA on internet listings.

Give your home for sale social media exposure. Most realtors use Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube, and real estate websites to obtain potential buyers.

These social media sites will help you get the word out that you are selling your property.

6. Unavailability

If your property is already on the market, do not assume that the sales process will proceed without you. Some buyers opt to view your house at odd times of the day and night.

Be flexible when appointments for viewing are scheduled. You may arrange to have the viewings handled by your real estate agent if you are unavailable.

7. Not understanding current tax laws

Do not let your excitement drive you into putting your custom built home on the market.

Selling a home is a taxable event.  Learn how you can get additional information on determining the cost basis of assets, capital gains, and closing costs.

It is equally important to have an exit strategy.

Avoid these serious mistakes when selling your custom built home in Warrenton WA. You will find yourself in a win-win situation during the selling process.

Enlist the help of an experienced REALTOR®. Call Allison Jensen now at 703-200-3120!

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Warrenton VA Homes for Sale | How Do I Make My Warrenton Home Attractive to Buyers?

Planning to sell your home fast?

Are you thinking of selling your Warrenton home?

There’s a difference between selling, and selling it fast. When you want your home off the market in the soonest time possible,  you need to make it stand out against the sea of competing homes for sale in the area.

There are many things you can do to get your home ready to sell, preparations that other home sellers are also surely doing. How then, can you step up your game and make your home more attractive than the others?

To reach the top of the competition, cleaning, decluttering and repainting your Warrenton home for sale are not enough.

Make your home more appealing to buyers.

Clearly, if you want your home to have more presence and be more noticeable than the rest of the competition, you should be willing to do the legwork.

Here are the five best tips you can do to make your home more attractive to potential buyers.

1. Price your home right. One of the most important decisions you have to make in selling your home is its price.

No matter how stunning your home is, if it’s overpriced, it will stay on the market longer.

Get your price right, and you’ll have more potential buyers flocking to your door.

2. Get help from a pro. One essential thing in home selling is working with the right real estate agent who will represent you, provide suggestions on staging, find the best photographer to take amazing photos of your home and who’ll manage the marketing for your home so the best information can reach the most homebuyers.

A competent real estate agent like me, Allison Jensen, can do the work for you more efficiently in less time.

3. Boost your home’s curb appeal. Curb appeal holds the buyer’s interest which will lead him through the front door, so make your home’s curb appeal as enticing as possible.

Don’t just clean the front lawn and garden. Mow the lawn.

Add mulch and reseed for a greener grass.

 Add a pop of color by planting flowers.

Trim the dead branches off the trees, if you have trees in your front lawn.

Power wash the siding and walkways.

Wash the windows.

In short, go over every detail of your curb appeal and work on it.

Here’s a great tip: Take a good look at your home from the street, and try to look at it from a buyer’s perspective. Do this and you will notice things about your home’s curb appeal that you have never noticed before.

4. Declutter and depersonalize your home. For many first time home sellers, it can be hard to let go of things because they have an emotional attachment to it.

I get it.  If this is you, start organizing now, before you actually list your home.

Put things into storage, and throw or give away things that have little or no meaning to you.

Removing half of your things before the actual selling process will make it easier for you to clear out and make the home look more organized.

Decluttering will also make the rooms more spacious and bright, lending a welcoming appeal.

5. Use accessories and decor sparingly. Interior staging is important. Minimalism is best when it comes to interior staging.

As much as you love your wall hangings and decor, you want very little on the wall, because you want the potential buyer to visualize the room as his or her own.

The list could go on and on. You may be relieved that many of the tasks are simple and when done right, will weigh in on selling your Warrenton home.

Are you ready to sell your home? Call me, Allison Jensen, at 703-200-3120. Together, we can make your home stand out and sell faster.

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