Home Seller Information

Throughout history the kitchen has always been considered the heart of the home and is a key feature to selling a home. Most home buyers prefer modern, updated kitchens because they will be using it daily and often it is the place where guests and family congregate.

When selling your home take time to visit other homes for sale in your neighborhood to see how the kitchens in those homes compare to yours. If the other homes have modern designs and new appliances, potential buyers visiting your home will expect the same or better.

Updating a kitchen does not always have to be extensive or expensive. Sometimes lower-cost kitchen upgrades can do the trick.

• Use a neutral color to repaint.
• Clean, clean and clean some more.
• Change light…

You have waited for what seems like eternity and now, out of the blue an offer comes in to purchase your home. The excitement builds and turns into relief, then you realize that the offer is much lower than your list price. What should you do?

Give every purchase offer for your home due consideration. Is it truely unacceptable? If so, your best response is to propose a counteroffer with price and terms that are acceptable. In this market many home buyers submit an offer to check the motivation level of the seller, expecting a counteroffer if it is unacceptable. Keeping a dialog going with a potential puchaser of your home and keeping them involved often times will result in a sale.

Check your Emotions at the Door

Even a low purchase offer still…

You have sold your home and now it is the time to move, but where to start is the big question. You want to be able to make the move as easy as possible and you want to be able to put your furniture and boxes in the right rooms so you do not have to search every box for your coffee maker, your pajamas, your toothbrush, etc.  

Here are some tips to have a smooth transition from one home to the other.  

• The first thing that you need to decide is how you are going to move. Are you going to do it all yourself, part of it yourself, or hire a mover to do it all. The answer to that question depends on your household size, the amount of time you have to move, and your budget. Before you decide to hire a professional mover, you should get at least…

If you are in the process of selling your home and the holidays are approaching, the question comes up as to whether you should take your home off the market during the holiday season. The answer to that question depends on the seller. There are reasons to take it off the market and reasons to keep it on the market. Sure the seller needs to take into account that from Thanksgiving to New Years potential buyers and the seller themselves will be busy with family obligations and showing their home may not be convenient. On the other side of that coin any buyers out looking at homes during the holidays are serious about finding and buying. There may not be as many buyers out, however the best offers from motivated buyers may come during the holidays.

If…

Each year I show countless homes to prospective home buyers which allows me to understand what home buyers in the metro Denver marketplace are looking for in homes that they may want to purchase. Luckily wallpaper is for the most part outdated and rarely used. Unluckily for some home sellers wallpaper is outdated and rarely used. 

One of the most important things that home sellers in todays marketplace need to take into account when selling their homes is the need to make the home appealing to as wide a base of prospective sellers as possible. To appeal to todays home buyers, homes need to look as close as possible to model homes or homes you see in designer magazines which use neutral tones.

The reasons why a metro Denver home seller should remove…

A few Saturdays ago we decided to take advantage of the warm weather to check off a few things on the Honey Do list. We pulled the screens off the windows, sat them in the back yard and gently washed and hosed them off. While they were drying we went about washing all of the windows inside and out. 

As soon as we finished we stared in amazement. The newly cleaned windows with the blinds up and drapes pulled back brightened up our home so much we nearly needed sunglasses indoors. My wife made comments on this throughout the day and I assured her that if the time ever comes for us to sell we will need to make sure the windows are cleaned just like today.

• Remove all of the screens.
• Repair any damaged screens or holes.
• Store them in the…

Give and take is part of every successful negotiation. Ego and stubborness are the primary obstacles to achieving your goals of selling your current house or purchasing your dream home because they leave little room for agreement between buyer and seller.

An adversary in negotiations is rarely inclined to capitulate to lines drawn in the sand. Negotiating with lines drawn in the sand raises defense mechanisms that most often leads to failure and feelings that prevent the negotiation process from moving forward.

Small accomodations and compromises will often keep lines of communication open and move both sides closer to an agreement. These compromises show a willingness and interest in continuing to talk in order to keep negotiations moving…

In many areas today it is a buyers market with purchasers enjoying many advantages and liberties from sellers that have not been seen for the last decade I have been selling real estate. Buyers today are getting historically low interest rates and enjoying more bargaining power during negotiations giving them a leg up on sellers. There may be no better time to purchase a home than right now. However, buyers can't take it to the extreme and think that they are outside of the normal and reasonable scrutiny of their qualifications to actually purchase the home. To put this in its proper light, as the listing agent I do have an obligation to verify. No matter how much buyers or thier agents assure or insist a purchasers ability to actually buy must be…

These have been touched upon in many articles in many different ways. We thought that bringing them together in a simple format would be helpful for those who are considering selling your home. There really are only six factors that contribute to the successful sale of your home.

When looking at these six factors it is vital to understand exactly who has control over them and their relationship to each other. 

• The seller (you) controls three of the six factors.
• The real estate marketplace controls two of the six factors.
• Only one of the six factors is controlled by your Realtor®.

Sellers Control

1. Condition – A well maintained home will affect how long it takes for the home to sell and the price finally agreed upon. A home…

Some people decide to sell their own homes to save on real estate agent fees, but there are many good reasons why you should use an agent. One good reason is pricing your home. A Denver Realtor would know just where to price your home and would not overprice it, as you might do if you were selling it yourself. Overpricing is one of the reasons that homes stay on the market so long.

Another reason to use an real estate agent is that they have more ways to market your home than just using "For Sale" signs, ads in the newspapers, and word of mouth. Real estate agents can put your home on Multiple Listing Services plus other high visibility websites such as Realtor.com. If you do go with an agent, make sure that they have a large network to work…