Seller's Guide

What are the circumstances under which you are selling your home? Are you staying local or moving to a new area? Are you upsizing or downsizing? Do you need to shop for a new home or have you already purchased? Do you need to sell your home before you can purchase a new one?  

There are many different scenarios. Be sure that you understand your timeline and possible challenges so you can navigate accordingly. Don't hesitate to reach out to the professionals so that they can help; Mortgage officer, Realtor, Accountant.

It is time to get busy making your house "show ready". At this point, there should be nothing left undone. Just as you are unlikely to sell a car without detailing it, your home should never be put on the market without detailing it. Deep clean, declutter and depersonalize. Take care of any small repairs and address with your agent any repairs too big for you to do prior to selling. Anything that you are unable to do prior to listing, will be adjusted for in price. 

Receiving an offer is an exciting part of the process, but it doesn’t mean the journey is over. We will evaluate each offer and make sure the party making the offer is prequalified or pre-approved by a mortgage lender or has proof of funds and that their offer is acceptable to you. Monetary aspects of an offer, while important are not always the driving factor. Sometimes, time is important. For instance if you're building a house and can't close on your home for a while, you may need an extended closing date or occupancy or both. We will evaluate all aspects of the offer(s) and negotiate to your satisfaction. As a seller, you have four options on how you handle an offer on your home. You can accept, counter offer, reject, or ignore it all together. Of course, I recommend one of the first three options, but you ultimately decide. 

You have accepted an offer and are now very close to the end of your selling journey. Once the buyer's contingencies are removed, their loan will move to the final underwriting stage and you can get ready to close. Or if they are paying cash, the final title work will be prepared for closing. During this time period, you will be packing, organizing movers, trucks, all the things that are pertinent to getting you moved out by the deadline for possession in your contract.  A few days before the closing date, we will call the title company to make sure everything is ready to go and you will receive your settlement statement with the final numbers for you and I to review. In addition, now would be a good time to contact all of your utilities to let them know that you are selling your home and need to transfer service or cancel it altogether.