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Sell Your Own Home – Day 14

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You have to be kidding! My cell phone, which is the number we have put on all of our real estate marketing, was off yesterday all afternoon. I checked it this morning just to be sure and we have 2 showing requests on there from Friday. So, we scrambled to clean up and call the right people back. Both showings got scheduled and held so, Yea! Also, another call this morning for one more showing, so that is 3 for Saturday. That is perfectly respectable. The really good news is that the showings we’ve had so far represent a pretty good cross section of the local Realtors who “specialize” in our area which means that the people in the know are brining their clients here. So, we aren’t way overpriced or anything it would seem.

Selling Your Own Home – Day 1

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home-for-sale Day One.  We will be listing our house tomorrow (Thursday) in the afternoon.  Apparently this is a good time to go on [tag]MLS[/tag] because [tag]real estate brokers[/tag] will be looking to setup their weekend showings.  But, it is not too early so that it doesn’t come up as "new" in the minds of some brokers (who apparently have short memories, I guess).

So today is about taking pictures and writing descriptions.

Today’s most important step is something that we didn’t have to worry about last time we sold a house just three years ago.  Updating [tag]Zillow[/tag]!

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Sell Home Yourself

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As a professional in a service industry, I know that often times it can seem as though a professional doesn’t do anything that you couldn’t do yourself.  Usually, that means that your professional is just very good at their job.  However, that isn’t always the case. There are plenty of financial planners and financial advisors out there who run a version of the same Internet calculators that you can find to determine how much you need to save per month, and then set you up in the same American Funds portfolio they put everyone in.  (A portfolio they probably got during a "training" class from a more senior advisor.)  The same is true of real estate agents.  A lot of real estate agents don’t do anything more than put your home on the [tag]MLS[/tag] system and then answer the phone.  That is not the case with my [tag]real estate agent[/tag].  Due to the various lifestyles that we have chosen to live over the last several years, we’ve moved more than your average person.  This move will be our third since 2002.  Our [tag]realtor[/tag] who helped us buy our second and third place (we bought our first directly from the builder) …

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