Selling Your Home On Your Own

Many people feel they can sell there home on their own and save the real estate commission or take a lower price to sell faster, times have changed. A few short years ago you could have put a sign in your front yard and have offers by the end of the day from people driving around looking to buy. Buyers today are few and far between, looking to get a steal in this market, and may not even be able to get financing. How will you know who your dealing with?

Do you know what the other homes in your area are selling for? Which homes are the same size and have similar features to yours? How many homes are for sale in your neighborhood? Are they foreclosures? Bank owned properties? Short sales? These are just a few questions to get answered as you think about selling your home on your own. Where will you get this information?

What do you do to get your home ready for buyers to see it? Where do you advertise to let people know you have a home for sale? Is someone always available to open the door and let prospective buyers in? Is this starting to sound like a lot of work? Do you have the time, energy, and resources to handle this along with all the other responsibilities in your life?

What do you do when you get an offer? Who holds the deposit money? Do you have an attorney or title company to handle the transaction and closing? What are reasonable fees that come along with selling a house?

As you can see that selling a home takes a lot of time, energy, and knowledge to be done properly and completely. These are just a few things to worry about as you prepare to sell your home. What is it worth to you having someone out there doing all the work for you, only to get paid if the job is done, a completed sale of your home.

Working with a Realtor to sell your home gives you the direction you need to get the job done correctly. It puts your home in front of 1,000's of other Realtors in your area to let them know your home is for sale. They have proffessional signs, advertising, and contacts to make sure everything goes smooth. And they only get paid when your home is sold.

What price are you willing to pay if you do not sell your house or have something go wrong along the way? It will cost you nothing to meet with a few Realtors in your area and see what they have to offer you. They will happily give you a free consultation and answer some questions, you may see what a benefit it would be to hire one of them. Good Luck either way.

Peter DeJoseph
Lic. Real Estate Broker
Lic. Mortgage Broker
http://www.yourreguy.com/