How To Sell Your Home Yourself! (How to Market Your Home to Sell / FSBO)
Martha Loveless of Loveless Real Estate Services
The Best Carmichael Realtor | HomeSmart ICARE Realty 916-.270.7081
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Hey everyone, Martha here again with another video on how to help you sell your home yourself.
My next tip, marketing your home to sell. Gone are the days of paying for a newspaper ad, it’s 2018 and pretty much everyone is on the computer. In fact, 80% of all buyers start their home search online so it’s important to understand the internet and the power of marketing.
YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Snapchat…these are all great social media platforms to post home and get massive exposure. Other ways to market your home are sending out postcards, just listed flyers, putting up a sign and flyer box in front of your home, Zillow.com, Realtor.com, Craigslist…the list goes on. One of the main things to keep in mind when marketing your home to sell, use great photos and include those home selling points we talked about last week.
As always, if you get through my videos and decide that you just don’t have the time or just don’t want to be bothered selling your home yourself, give me a call/text and I’ll be happy to get your home SOLD. Have a great day!
1. Home inspectors can sniff out problems you may have missed when viewing the home. No one wants to buy a money pit, but people do all the time because they’re either overestimating their abilities or they’ve failed to get a home inspection. When your home inspector goes through your home, they’ll not just walk around in the living room. They crawl through the crawl space, they get up into the attic, they really give it a good look. Home inspections take hours to complete, but when they’re done you’ll be given a report that provides you more information than you could ever imagine. The types of problems found will help you decide if you can really deal with the house in the longer term or if you can afford the house at all.
3. Don’t forget, an inspection report is also a bargaining chip. Most real estate contracts allow you an inspection period, during which you can get your experts out and have them look around the property. You also have the right to ask for repairs based on what they find, provided these were not readily apparent issues. (If the carpet’s worn in the hallway, you can’t ask for that during the inspection period because you could see it. You should request those kinds of repairs with your initial offer.)
Your Realtor knows lots of home inspectors, so when it comes time to look that house over from top to bottom, connect with them. You’ll be able to view your agent’s recommendations for home inspectors in the area, along with other home experts you may need to help with repairs further down the road.