Selling a Home?
Selling a Home?
Reach out to us to find an experienced military veteran or military spouse real estate agent that can review and answer your questions on selling your home.
Preparing Your Property to Sell
Getting your house ready for potential buyers can feel like a long list of chores, but it’s a crucial step to make your sale successful. Here’s how to get started:
Boost Curb Appeal
Enhance the exterior of your home by replacing or removing dead plants, trimming overgrown landscaping, and fixing any broken railings or mailboxes. Touch up exterior paint on the house, railings, trim, and front door to create a welcoming first impression.
Freshen Up with Paint
Apply a neutral color to the interior walls. This not only freshens up dinged walls but also creates a blank slate for potential buyers to envision their lives in the space.
Make Minor Updates
Consider making small updates, such as replacing countertops, updating fixtures, or adding a fresh coat of paint to modernize your home.
Declutter
Remove any unnecessary items from sight. Clear countertops, tidy up closets, and create open spaces so buyers can see the home’s potential without distractions.
Stage Your Home
Staging is essential. Properly staged homes tend to sell faster and for more money than those that aren’t staged. Buyers appreciate seeing how the space can be utilized. According to the National Association of Realtors’ 2023 Home Staging Profile, 81% of buyers’ agents said staging made it easier for buyers to visualize the property as their future home.
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Rent a Storage Unit
Store any excess items, including those cluttering your garage, to keep your home neat and spacious. While minor updates can enhance your home’s appeal, be cautious with extensive renovations. Over-improving your home might reduce your profit when it sells.
By following these steps, you can make your property more attractive to buyers and increase your chances of a successful sale.
MilitRE agents are the top 10% of agents in the local area. They understand the value of your home, neighborhood, condition of the home, upgrades, etc. As part of their consult with you, they will review all of these things and pair with the multiple listing service (MLS) comps and give you a range on value of your home.
They will pull a netsheet to provide you the approximate sales prices minus debts owed to ensure you will have a positive return on the sell of the home. They will also visit with you to look at if there is an option for you to holdthe home and rent it out and build your wealth strategy.
MilitRe agents will provide you a list of cosmetic repairs to take care of, general and deep cleaning, decluttering, painting, curb appeal, etc.
About one week out from listing your home, MilitRe agents will schedule high-end professional photography to display the house on the MLS. They will work with you to see if you have any limitations on showing schedules of letting buyers and agents to see the home. You may be asked if you want a MilitRe agent to do an open house for you.
Once and offer is received the MilitRe agent will review any and all offers with you in which case you can accept, counter or decline offers. Once under contract the buyers will have the chance to schedule and inspection on the property and if the buyers is financing, an appraiser will come to the home. Many times buyers will ask for the seller to repair or provide a credit for repairs on items of the home. Our expert MilitRe agent negotiators will step up and provide guidance. Generally buyers will review an home owners association documentation if living in an HOA. Title will pull title documents to ensure everything is clean on title and can transfer to the buyer.
After the buyer and seller get through inspection negotiations and the house appraises or there is negotiations around a lower appraisal that are settled….we then are monitoring the completion of the loan for the buyer and getting the clear to close for financed purchases.
Complete and agreed upon repairs on the house. Clean the home. Load the moving truck.
Attend closing, turn over keys, collect your check and head to your next duty station.
From virtual tours to picking you up at the airport for showings, our agents and lenders pull out all the stops.
From virtual tours to picking you up at the airport for showings, our agents and lenders pull out all the stops.