Home Selling Checklist

It’s not an easy job to sell a house. It’s a detailed process. You don’t just post your house online, meet a buyer, negotiate and then sell it. There is more of a process to sell your house. 

 

 

Below is a good example of an effective checklist to follow. This home selling checklist provides some steps you should follow when it comes time to sell your house. First, decide whether you pay an agent to sell your house or you just do it yourself.

Paying a Real Estate Agent is a good idea because it requires little effort from you, to sell your house. An agent will carry out most if not all the business steps necessary for you to sell your home. You just hire an agent and pay them to follow through with the steps. It will not cost a considerable amount either to hire an agent. 

For example, we offer a low rate of 1 and ½ % plus cooperating broker fees. So, it’s up to you if you want to pay more to put in less effort, or pay less and do it yourself with more effort.

Here is an example of a checklist that would be a good idea to follow when selling that would apply to you selling it yourself or with an agent:

      • ·         Be a communicative and informed seller that goes in with a strategy. You can use different kinds of media to promote your home, such as newspaper, pamphlet, You Tube, or websites.
      • Make sure you come up with a reasonable and accurate price to sell your home for.     
      • ·        Get your house ready to sell by doing some preparations for your house on the exterior, interior, and        with your appliances.
      • ·         Decide whether you want to pay a professional to do a pre-listing house inspection or not.
      • ·         Do some selling of your unnecessary furniture and appliances.
      • ·         Get familiar with financing terms, such as mortgage financing (fixed, adjustable, seller financing, assumable loans), pre-qualified, pre-approved, and commitment.
      • ·         Get familiar with negotiation that will occur with different items such as the contract, offer, deal, etc.  
      • ·         You should learn how to present an offer and get familiar with the legal transaction process.
      • ·         Know what you can improve or not in your house, on the interior, exterior and what you cannot      improve such as location, style, etc.
      • ·         Decide whether you will get a home warranty on your house or not.
      • ·         Research tips in buying a new home, while you are in the process of selling your old one.
      • ·         Decide on preferred dates for closing with the new buyer.
      • ·         Record your move-out details and the process you are going to take to get moved out.

This checklist is designed to give you some of the more common and more important things to think about and exercise in the process of selling your house.