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Article #150: How to Sell Your House without a Realtor

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Do you want to sell your house without drives by your house. If you are selling
paying a commission to a realtor? And why the house during the peak summer "house
should not you? With the median house purchase season", regularly mow your lawn
price in the USA at $223,000 in 2006, a and keep it neat and trimmed. Also, don't
7% commission is $15,600. This may be forget to water your lawn regularly and
equal to 50% of your appreciated house take care of all weeds. If your house has
value. But, selling your house using a a vinyl siding, wash the outside of your
realtor is hassle free because the house using soap and a pressurized water
realtor does all the hard works. A jet. If your wood sidings require a fresh
realtor also provides a marketplace for coat of paints, paint it. If you have not
your house where hundreds of potential painted the inside of your house in the
buyers participate. However, if you want last five year, do it now. Remove all
to pocket that extra chunk of money that clutters from the basement, family room,
would have otherwise gone to the realtor, kitchen, counter tops, and closets. Tidy
you have to do the hard works, including up all the closets and put excess
marketing your home. Follow these simple furniture in a rented storage room.
strategies to fatten your pocket. Using a good digital camera, take plenty
The first strategy is to price your house of pictures of the outside and the inside
accordingly. How do you do that? Don't of your house. Write down details of your
tag an unrealistic price to your house house, e.g. number of bedrooms,
because you had replaced those old bathrooms, garage size, number of stories
kitchen cabinets a few years ago or you and square footage. Also mention items
have stopped your roof from leaking. Your that appeal to today's home buyers like a
house is not worth more than the market separate formal dining area, an island or
value of comparable houses in your breakfast area in the kitchen, whirlpool
neighborhood. Go to to get an instant in the master bedroom, etc.
valuation of your home. Type in your For marketing your house, use a variety
street address and the zip code, shows a of methods. Use paid websites like
"zestimate" of your home value and the fsbo.com, realestate.yahoo.com, or
actual selling prices of all the houses completely free web sites like or
in your neighborhood. Zillow.com's classifiedsforfree.com, etc. to list your
"zestimate" value is only a guide. You house with pictures and details. Use
need to do more digging at to figure out classified ads in your local newspaper or
the actual price of your house. One way speciality publications dedicated for
to do this is to check the assessed taxes real estate buy and sell. Use signs in
of all the recently sold houses in your the free bulletin boards of your local
neighborhood and their selling prices. supermarkets, grocery stores, churches,
Comparing the assessed taxes of your work places, etc. And don't forget the
house with that of the recently sold word-of-mouth. Tell all your friends and
houses, you will be able to figure out folks and request them to tell their
the market value of your home. friends and folks about your house. Print
What did you do when you bought your a few hundred business size cards with a
home? You hired an inspector to point out few details of the house and urls of your
problems in the house you wanted to buy. house listing in the Internet along with
Hire an inspector to find problems in the your email and phone number. Give few of
house you intend to sell. Any potential these cards to all your acquaintances and
buyer of your house is going to do the request them to pass those cards to their
same thing. Take proactive steps to acquaintances.
discover problems in your house and fix When it is the time to close the deal,
them before a potential buyer finds them use a title company, A title company will
using a home inspector. You can make sure that all legal entities get all
immediately take care of the small things the legal papers of your house sale.
like sealing all cracks, fixing leaking Also, a title company helps you go
faucets and electrical wiring issues, through the legality of selling a house.
etc. The legal aspect of selling a house is
The appearance of your house from the more complex than anything else. Make
outside and the inside is the most sure that you don't break the laws in the
important selling point. So, take care of process of selling your house.
it before the first potential buyer






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