For Sale By Owner Lexington Ky

All of the points that I have made on my website in the content areas of "Selling Information" are relevant to you. Most importantly, you must Stage Your Home to Sell, inside and out. Given, it's your home reflecting your tastes, habits, and lifestyle, it may be difficult for you to be objective in considering what improvements to make.

I suggest you start with the curb appeal, and try to make sure that the front yard, particularly, has a clean cut look to it. Lawn is edged, beds are weeded, bushes and trees trimmed to complement the home. Next, you should consider what a prospective Buyer would like to see in a home and begin to depersonalize, declutter, and scrub your place to the extent your emotions allow. Perhaps some of your family or neighbors can tour your home and more objectively give you their ideas. Remember that for the most part, Buyers want to visualize your home with their own individual preferences so don't confuse them with an abundance of your own memorabilia.

Next, you will want to determine the price you will ask for your home. You should try to get some data on comparable homes sold in your neighborhood if there have been any sold recently. You can talk to neighbors and get their sense of the market. You might visit open houses and determine a sales price based on what is being asked for homes similar to yours. You can check city records to get historical data on home sales. Or I would be happy to help you Price Your Home to Sell.

Marketing your home in this competitive market presents another challenge. You can start by obtaining For Sale and Open House signs; and perhaps conduct a couple of open houses just to get your feet wet. You can post your home's details on the Internet and take out a classified ad in the Lexington Herald-Leader. In general, make it known to your friends, associates, church members, and anyone else who will listen to you that you are very serious about selling your home. Too often, For Sale by Owners are considered to be people just exploring possibilities and not all that serious about selling.

It would be a good idea to get familiar with the various forms used for real estate transactions, and talk to a Lender to get some ideas about pre-qualifying prospective Buyers. You will also need to understand the steps one has to take to proceed to escrow. Since selling a home is a very emotional time in your life, it's a good idea to do your homework first in order to feel confident about the basics of the home selling process.

So there you have it! If you don't think a competent Realtor is worth a fee for the major services they provide, then try it yourself. And if you want some help along the way, give me a call, (859) 509-0439, or if you prefer, Send Me an Email.

Remember it's a whole lot easier to blame me when things go wrong than to have nobody to blame but yourself.

Well, I guess you can always kick the dog!