Signs You Have No Intention of Selling your Home Quickly

What’s key to selling your home quickly?  It’s your mindset. You have to see your home as a commodity and not a place where you live. If you’re feeling sentimental and can’t let go, you are defeating your purpose. How do you know that you are still emotionally attached to your home?

You want to save money and try to sell it yourself.  Deep down inside you know that your home will not sell quickly.

Solution: Hire a real estate agent who knows your neighborhood and all of the amenities it has to offer. Does he have stats on the school system and other information a buyer might like to know?  Where does he advertise online and offline to spread the word about your home being on the market?

You are determined to sell your home higher than the price recommended by the real estate agent as per a competitive market analysis.

Solution: Review the competitive market analysis prepared by your real estate agent and discuss his reasons why the price he recommends is correct. If you want to sell your home quickly, don’t overinflate the price.  It will only serve to make your home sit longer on the market and become ripe for price negotiation.

You don’t want to replace the harvest gold refrigerator and stove in your kitchen making your home look dated.

Solution: One look at those appliances and your prospective buyer is bound to head out of the door. Sell your home quickly and for top dollar by updating all your old appliances.  Don’t make the buyer feel that this is one more expense he has to incur.

You don’t feel it’s necessary to clean out your garage so you can park your cars inside instead of in the driveway.

Solution: Organizing your garage so you can park your cars inside and show storage for some items will help sell your home. Free up lots of storage space using modular hooks and shelving. Get bikes, sports equipment, lawn and garden products and tools stored away neatly.

You don’t want to change the bold interior paint colors you have. You like them so buyers can just repaint.

Solution: Paint color can be a deal breaker and it’s the first thing buyers notice upon entering your home. You want buyers to feel cozy in your home, not alarmed! If buyers like your home, they will start negotiating the price lower because they have to paint their new home a paint color they can tolerate. In addition, many times, especially in job transfer situations, buyers want to get into their new home as quickly as possible.  They want a move-in ready home.  Don’t disappoint them.  Paint your interior a more neutral color that will be appealing to the majority of buyers and help in selling your home quickly.

You don’t think you need a home stager. Your home looks fine.

Solution: Keep in mind that today’s buyers watch interior design shows and have formed an opinion of what they want in their new home. They are expecting to see an open floor plan with good traffic flow. You are not objective enough to look at your home from the viewpoint of a potential buyer.  Home staging is much less than your first price reduction and is worth its weight in gold. Hire a local professional home stager and sell your home quickly and for more money. Stop wondering if everything looks good.

To sell your home quickly and get your asking price, you need to emotionally disconnect from it. Investing some money to make it more appealing and marketable shows that your new mindset is about selling your home quickly.

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