Selling your home in today’s market takes some work and imagination. Not only does the house need to be priced correctly, it needs to offer something special that will set it apart from the others. I call this the “WOW Factor.”
Category Archives: Sellers
Mistakes COST Home Sellers Thousands!
Sometimes I can’t believe the things that listing agents do, or fail to do, that cost their sellers time and money. If you need to sell your home, and list it with me, I promise that I will not make these mistakes, that I see regularly on our SoCalMLS: Put a home on the MLS…
Should you Sell or Lease Your Orange County Home?
In Orange County today, as well as many other places, there are home owners who are going through the difficult decision process of whether to sell their current home, or lease it and wait for a better time to sell. Some of these people have taken a job out of the area and will not…
Sellers – When you get an offer respond quickly!
In the current market, when a buyer makes an offer on a property, it is in the seller’s best interest to respond quickly. The buyers today are not impulsive, frenzied, or in a panic to “buy now or be priced out forever.” If any urgency is felt by a buyer, it is more likely based…
Keep Your Lender within "Choking Distance!"
Lenders need to have a local reputation to protect and live up to! If you use a distant semi-anonymous internet lender, you will just be a “number” to them, and they may treat you like one! A seasoned agent told me years ago to make sure I always knew how to find my lender “just…
Creative Real Estate Advertising
Many people think that real estate agents are prone to exaggerating in their ads, but this one is really over the top! I hope you laughed as much as I did. This was my easy lazy way to add something to my blog without thinking too much. I just returned from a vacation, so I…
Lake Forest Market Conditions – 4/6/2008
The Lake Forest real estate market is tough right now – for sellers, for buyers & for agents! While there are a lot of listings active on the MLS, when they are divided up by size, price, and locations, there really isn’t much to choose from. Today, out of 344 properties on the market, 58%…
Hints for Sellers of South Orange County Homes
For my sellers in Lake Forest, Rancho Santa Margarita, Mission Viejo, and other South Orange County areas, here is a list of important, but not totally obvious hints to follow when your house is on the market. If you have an answering machine – turn the volume to either “off” or “0″. You don’t want…
Selling Your Lake Forest Home – Big Mistakes to Avoid
There are so many ways to not sell your Lake Forest home in this market, that there is no excuse to make the most common ones! If you’re going to fail at selling your house, please come up with something more original than these : Don’t clean it up- just leave the beds un-made, dishes…
Market Conditions for Lake Forest California February 2008
Like most of Orange County, Lake Forest has a lot of homes for sale right now. “Distressed” properties currently make up 44% of the total 357 properties available, with 116 short sales and 40 foreclosures. Due to the long wait times for lender approval of short sales, most of these are being ignored by the…