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Selling Your Own Home – Day 8

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Sunday and two showings. Not too shabby. Overall, 7 showings for our first weekend on the market. We’ll take it. So far, no one seems shocked at the price which is good. We had to set our price in a bit of a vaccum since no one has sold a house in our neighborhood in a while. Otherwise, everything is pretty normal.

Selling Our Own Home – Day 7

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home-for-saleSaturday and we’ve ended up with 5 showings. Not bad for a first weekend on the market considering how things are going in [tag]real estate[/tag] right now and the fact that it is still early April. Actually we weren’t really looking at selling in April but it was important for us to get out there first to help set the price in our market. Here is how to handle showings when you are [tag]selling your own home[/tag].

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Sell Your Own Home – Day 6

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forsale-sign Well, we’re officially on MLS.  Whoo-hoo!  Frankly, it’s been a bit of kluge, but I guess in the end it all works out.  Our very first day we get a call from a realtor to setup a showing.  My wife spoke with her and after setting a time for the showing my wife inquired as to whether or not she was a realtor.  Generally you don’t stay at your house for showings.  It helps the potential buyers see your home as their home if they don’t see the people that currently live there.  Also, it keeps you from answering awkward questions.  And, if you are very lucky, they may want to spend a lot of time going back and forth and talking about your house if they are very interested in it.  However, we aren’t going to leave strangers alone in our house without a realtor.  (The realtor is semi-liable and probably wouldn’t allow anything shifty.  It isn’t worth the trouble for them.)

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