There's More to Selling Your Home than a "For Sale" Sign In Your Front Yard: Beware.
 

Even if a simple sign in your yard did produce a buyer knocking on your door, how will you handle the following questions: 

"How does your home compare to others like it in Cobb, Middletown, Kelseyville?" 

"How did you determine the fair market value of this property?" 

"What about financing? Can you help?" 

"If I make an offer, who will draw up the paperwork?" 

"Why aren't you using a Realtor? Is there something wrong with the property?" 

"Since you aren't using a Realtor, we can take their fee right off the top, right?" 

Selling your home is one of the most important financial transactions you will make in your life. Don't take risks. Selling your home is nothing like selling a car. Every home is different, and every homebuyer wants to offer you as little as possible. How do you determine the real market value? The real estate market is very dynamic and changes even week by week. Don't make the mistake of underselling your property, even without knowing it. 

Almost all homes are sold using a Realtor. As top real estate professionals, it is our job to help you negotiate with all those buyers who want something for nothing. Not to mention preparing your home for sale, marketing it locally in Lake County and even nationally, and guiding you through the complex paperwork and pitfalls of escrow and closing. Make sure you are really ready to handle all of that before pounding that sign into your front yard. Errors can be extremely costly. In fact more than 70% of sellers who attempt to sell their home themselves, resort to a realtor and only lose time. And we know from experience, that some of those others whilst successful in selling their home themselves, actually undersold it, or got into legal difficulties in doing so. 

However there are ways that you can reduce the amount of commission you have to pay, if you can help us to reduce the amount of work we do in selling your home, by partnering up. Be sure to ask us about those. 

Remember: Buyers want to offer you as close to nothing as possible! While that "For Sale By Owner" sign might sound like a good idea, it usually means a different thing to buyers: "Try to steal this one." 

If you want to give it a shot at selling your home yourself, let us give you a sense of its true market value, and we can also give you some marketing suggestions that you might like to try. Tell us about your home, and we can do a quick Comparative Market Analysis and we can see what it is worth on today's market. One of our team members can also describe, as the leading Lake County real estate team, how we would market your property. This is free, with no strings attached. If you are not able to sell your home yourself, you will still know what we can do. Simply fill out the form and we will quickly get back to you...