Don’t Get Caught Unaware When Trying to Sell Your Home With Our Helpful Seller Resources

Seller’s roadmap begins with organization. Having an experienced realtor assisting you is a blessing.  Your Realtor will know the important items to help you navigate smoothly. Your realtor will need all the essential info about your home (beds, baths,square footage) to list your home effetively. The will take the information and run a market analysis, which will give details of what properties have listed and sold for in your area. It is best to stay within a close proxmity to your home to be correct. Fill out the fom to get a free market analysis of your home and we will start the process of finding what your home may be worth. 

Your next step should be putting your financial life in perspective. Having a realtor like the Shirley Franklin Team will help you by preparing an estimated net proceeds document wo show home much you hope to get from your home sale. When navigating offers, your first offer is tuypically your best offer. Having a clear expection of what you must walk away with or what your bottom line is. We recommend talking with a lender if you you going to require a loan to purchase your new home to see just how much you will need to make a down payment on your new home? Your realtor will also have experience setting a realistic asking price no matter your goals. The shirley Franklin Team will work hard as your representative to protect your euqity and get the best price out of your home and keeping in mind it must appraise for the contract price or above.

Evaluate each room to see if there are any item or items that can be removed to make the rooms look larger. The buyers need to be looking at your home instead of personal photos and sometimes it is best taking out your family’s photos and personal things allowing the potential buyer to imagine their family in your home. It is not absolutely necessary, but it can protect your family. Any positive quirks of your home should be accentuated to make your home memorable in a buyer’s mind.

Once the right buyer has entered your home and says, “this is it” The buyers will then send you an offer through their agent or with me if I am dual agent with their asking price. You can accept this offer, reject it, or send back a counteroffer. This negotiation will continue until one party walks away or both agree on a price. When you decide on a price, the following steps are:

The buyer will have a home inspection of the property within ten days or what has been written the contract usually no more than 15 days, and the buyer’s agent will send over an inspection notice listing any repairs they are requesting to be done and they should provide a copy of the inspectors report  in order to move forward with the contract.  This list is negotiable, just like when we negotiated the sales price in the offer. Don’t worry this is where my expertise can help guide you through this process. 

The title company will run a check on your home, making sure that everything is free and clear. When everything checks out, we will set up a closing day and time. You will need to bring your drivers license or state ID, you’ll sign after the buyer has signed that makes everything official and hand the keys and garage door openers to the buyer.

Will know the items important to help you navigate smoothly. Your realtor will need all the essential info about your home (beds, baths, square footage) to list your home effectively. She will then take the information and run a market analysis which will give details of what properties have listed and sold for in your area. It is best to stay within a close proxmity to your home to be correct. Click on the free market analyisis and we will start the process of finding what your home may be worth.

Your next step should be putting your financial life in perspective. Having a realtor like the Shirley Frankln Team will help you by prepariing an estimated net proceeds document to show how much  you hope to get from your home sale.? When navigating offers, your fist offer is typically your best offer. Having a clear expectation of what you must walk away with or  what your bottome line is. 

 We recommend talking with a lender if you are going to require a loan to see just how much will you need to make a down payment on your new home? Your realtor will also have experience setting a realistic asking price no matter your goals. 

The Shirley Franklin Team will work hard as your reprersentative to  protect your equity and get the best price out of your home and keeping in mind it must appraise out. 

The next thing to consider is what areas of the home may need repair or replacement to make your home more appealing and show ready to get the top dollar for your home. 

In all the years of selling real estate the top 2 things that can go wrong once under contract is:

1. The buyers’ financing falls through. It is our job as an agent to work on your behalf and try to stay on top of how the process is going for the buyer thru their agent if they have one or with their lender if we are dual agent.
2. Inspection negotiations. Every buyer will have the opportunity to have an inspection within 10 days, which is typical or what ever numbers of day is set up in the signed contract. Their inspector will do a thorough inspection of the home including electrical, plumbing, termite, damage under the home that you may not know about from water, mildew, or mold and or termites. In our area termites are common and mildew and mold is common. Do not panic this is all easily managed. Look at the next paragraph and let us show you how the process can go smoother for you. 

We at the Shirley Franklin Team we recommend keeping the stress down during the selling process, you should have a pre-selling home inspection. This will help to avoid any surprises or hassles over what a buyer would expect to be completed after a home inspection. It is not necessary but will keep you in charge of any repairs. This will allow us to say in the disclosures you will fill out the repairs that are made and if there are some that you do not want to do, it is disclosed and if the buyers signs the disclosures when making the offer, it will help us to negotiate.  It is a great tool to help the process along. 

It is especially important to have the Shirley Franklin Team a chance come over and let you know what cosmetic updates that may need to be done to bring top dollar and what really would not matter to a buyer. This step can include new carpets, neutral paint on the walls, repairing scuffs and scratches on hardwood floors, or new fixtures in bathrooms or kitchens. Ask your realtor about the most effective fixes you can make to your home.

You should make it as easy as possible for a touring buyer to imagine themselves living in your home. Remember less is more. Evaluate each room to see if there is any item or items that can be removed to make the rooms look larger. The buyers need to be looking at your home and sometimes it is best taking out your family’s photos and personal things allowing the potential buyer to imagine their family in your home. It is not absolutely necessary, but it can protect your family. Any positive quirks of your home should be accentuated to make your home memorable in a buyer’s mind.

Once the right buyer has entered your home and say, “this is it” The buyers will then send you an offer through their agent or with me if I am dual agent. This will include the offer price they want to open neogiations. You can accept this offer, reject it, or send back a counteroffer. This negotiation will continue until one party walks away or both agree on a price. When you decide on a price, the following steps are:

The buyer will have a home inspection of the property within ten days or what has been written the contract usually no more than 15 days, and the buyer’s agent will send over an inspection notice listing any repairs they are requesting to be done and they should provide a copy of the inspectors report  in order to move forward with the contract.  This list is negotiable, just like when we negotiated the sales price in the offer. Don’t worry this is where my expertise can help guide you through this process. 

The title company will run a check on your home, making sure that everything is free and clear. When everything checks out, we will set up a closing day and time. You will need to bring your drivers license or state ID, you’ll sign after the buyer has signed that makes everything official and hand the keys and garage door openers to the buyer.

The Shirley Franklin Team not only will sell the home or property associated with your estate. We also offer full Estate service; New To You that can be customized to what works best for your family needs. 

New To You, will meet with you or your family, they will set up a neatly organized sale, advertise and work the sale. New To You offers presells of the larger pieces such as furniture, appliances or antiques to get the most for your family’s estate.

I work with them because we both have the same values, try to keep the family’s top priority and try to make the most they can for the estate, during a difficult time.

New To You & Shirley Franklin Team if there is a need for a quick sale, they will also offer an option price to completely buy out the items They are a service you can trust and most clients will just turn over the keys and the two of us take it from there. I do the real estate; she does the personal property.

Do not let the stress of losing a loved one burden you down and get overwhelming. Let us help, give us a call.

Shirley Franklin Team Real Estate Experts

email:shirley@shirleyfranklin.com 

Phone: 417848-8540

New To You Estate Sales

 email:Lavonnasnewtoyou@gmail.com 

 Phone: 417-830-7182