Home Selling Checklist

It’s not an easy job selling a house. It’s a process. You just don’t publish your house, meet a buyer, negotiate and sell it, but there is a checklist to sell your house. The home selling checklists include some procedures you must do in the process of selling your home.

This is the checklist you must pay more attentions to sell your house:

– Decide whether you will pay an agent to sell your house or you just want to do it by yourself. Paying a real estate agent gives you a less effort for you to sell your house. An agent will carry out all of business in connection with selling your home. You just hire an agent and pay him or her. But it will cost you of course. So, it’s up to you whether to pay an agent and be less involved or pay less but be more involved.

– Be a communicative and informed seller. You can use media to promote your home, such as newspaper, pamphlet, DVD, or websites. Don’t forget to put the reasonable and proper price for your house.

– Get your house ready to sell by doing some preparations for your house exterior, interior, and appliances.

– Decide whether you pay a professional to do pre-listing house inspection or not.

– Sell some of your furniture and appliances which will not be needed at your new location.

– Get familiar with financing terms, such as mortgage financing (fixed, adjustable, seller financing, assumable loans), pre-qualified, pre-approved, commitment

– Get familiar with negotiation and its terminology, such as contract, offer, deal, etc. You should learn to do some offer approaching and all correlated with a legal transaction process.

– Know what you can improve or not in your house, such as interior, exterior and what you can not improve such as location, style, etc.

– Decide whether you will put a home warranty to your house or not.

– Find some tips to buy a new house before you have sold your old one.

– Decide on closing and settlement details for a buyer.

– Make moving plans.

The home selling checklist above shows us that you will be involved with selling your house, but you do have a choice as to how involved you become. You should pay attention to home selling checklist and do the steps right. But if you decide to pay a realty agent to organize your home selling business, just let them carry out the points above. And your involvement in home selling will be decreased, and your peace of mind should be improved!.