http://mortgageupdates.net/archives/2008/12/30/selling-home-by-your-self Mortgage News and Info - Interest Rates, Home Equity Loans, etc. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:02:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://mortgageupdates.net/archives/2008/12/30/selling-home-by-your-self/comment-page-1#comment-24202 manojsolankar Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:51:45 +0000 http://mortgageupdates.net/?p=572#comment-24202 Setting a price can be a bit tricky, but you can find out what other homes are on the market by calling the agents listed on signs in your neighborhood and asking the prices of their houses. If the homes have been on the market a long time, you can assume they're over priced. Putting a sign in your yard is easy. They're available in most hardware or department store, and they're cheap. Yet most agents will tell you that signs are the best advertising mediums, since people who see yard signs are cruising the neighborhood. That means they're in the market for a home in that area, so if you put a sign out, you'll get calls. Now a word for those who are squeamish about putting your phone number on a sign. You can substitute an email address to protect yourself from unwanted calls. It will limit your number of prospects, but it will give you a greater degree of privacy. Since you're moving anyway, it might be best to list your phone number. If you know how to put pictures on the Internet, you can list you website address on the sign. Placing a newspaper ad is easy, but make sure to give accurate information and make it enticing. Be brief, but tell buyers what's special about your home. Even with the advent of the Internet, a majority of homebuyers still cruise neighborhoods and religiously peruse real estate ads, especially on Sundays. Setting a price can be a bit tricky, but you can find out what other homes are on the market by calling the agents listed on signs in your neighborhood and asking the prices of their houses. If the homes have been on the market a long time, you can assume they’re over priced.
Putting a sign in your yard is easy. They’re available in most hardware or department store, and they’re cheap. Yet most agents will tell you that signs are the best advertising mediums, since people who see yard signs are cruising the neighborhood. That means they’re in the market for a home in that area, so if you put a sign out, you’ll get calls.
Now a word for those who are squeamish about putting your phone number on a sign. You can substitute an email address to protect yourself from unwanted calls. It will limit your number of prospects, but it will give you a greater degree of privacy. Since you’re moving anyway, it might be best to list your phone number. If you know how to put pictures on the Internet, you can list you website address on the sign.
Placing a newspaper ad is easy, but make sure to give accurate information and make it enticing. Be brief, but tell buyers what’s special about your home. Even with the advent of the Internet, a majority of homebuyers still cruise neighborhoods and religiously peruse real estate ads, especially on Sundays.

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