Prepare Your House For Sale

Daily Tips To Help You Sell Your House

So, You want to sell your home. I would to start off by saying this a area where people need to start simple and not get frustrated. You will normally have the help of the listing agent, that is if you hire pro to sell your house. The trend and the housing bubble have created many do-it-yourself home sales. These are great for the home investors making their money off of buying and selling houses. These over night sell your house companies can leave you really short when it comes to getting your home ready and even looked at. I know this as, I have been what we call a Rehab Consultant for about 2 years now. This is only one aspect of my business. We than can help people after a consult to get thing prepared on their homes before they go on the market. Some people say this can be a conflict of interest, if you are providing a true and honest consult you do what your clients want and need. Not as the old saying goes “Sell them whats left over from the last job in the back of the truck”.

I spent over 6 months consulting and preparing 2 homes last year that never would had people even slow down and look before we did the consulting and repairs for them. This market is 5x worse then last year towards the end of the selling season. One house took 3 months to get it ready. This house starting from the curb looked like it came out of a horror movie. You know what I am talking about the house that all the kids on block think is haunted. It took me 2.5 hours to just go over what needed to be done to the house inside and out before we thought about putting it on the market.I have established high levels of respect and trust with my clients, with out this in this type of consulting, everyone would just figure your just selling them on what makes you the most money. This is why you don’t see Rehab Consultants all over.

Now I am not saying that everyone needs to hire a consultant to tell them what to fix and fix it for them. There are many different levels of service that can be given to people. We just provide people with what they need. If you do hire some one to help you sell your home, don’t let them talk you into high level repairs or up dates and they do all the work, this is nothing more than a contractor and whats in the back of the truck. I again have to stress there is a fine line between finding a actual person that is looking out for your interests, even when you are paying good money to sell your house, there are people out there only looking to line their pockets with your money. We get most of this type of work by word of mouth. So, this is one tip on how to sell your house.

There are many ways to help promote your house without ever hiring anyone to help you. There are many people out there that have lots of knowledge and are writing articles like this one, which can give people lots of help without costing them a penny. Really how much better does it get. You the home seller just have to take the time to find the articles. Again their are just alot of people trying to get you to buy something from them. I have found tons of these out there. Like this article if I was just writing it for this reason I would have told you to go to my site and buy my book how to sell your house from me. NO I don’t have a book for sale. Although not a bad idea, just kidding. These types of people is why people don’t like to hire people to help them, again this where your level of trust is needed and also could be used against you.

I spend more time talking to people on how to sell their homes and don’t get a dime then when I do. I guess its a good thing I don’t make my house payments on just consulting. We offer a full range of services that help home owners even ones keeping their houses. Again as I said before if I was just trying to sell you on something I would be giving plugs for my services or books right now. Here again this not why I am here, its because I find helping people to solve their housing problems rewarding and interesting. Just Ask my wife, she will tell you, I must be the cheapest guy in town and need to raise my rates.

Start right now by going out and looking at your house from the curb. This again is where it all starts. Take your mail box, take the grass out around it and put down a weed barrier and some mulch. Now this was simple and economical. The faster way yet, put some potted plants out, if there is not time to do the above. Ohh, I know we all want to think we live in a great safe area and all kids have halos, bring the plants back up to the house after a showing. This can save the time and money of cleaning up broken pots and dirt. Well heres a simple little tip with more to come. Hope this helps and that I can find the time to write more.