Selling Your House with a Competetive Edge

June 11, 2011 - PRLog -- How to Sell Your House - Arlington VA: Selling a house isn’t easy these days, and if you are selling your own house you can’t really be expected to know the trade secrets of the professionals that do it for a living. Some things are just common sense, while others are learned by experience and through trial and error or market trends.

Do give those who come to look at your house an easy way to park and access the house. Give them the royal treatment, minus the red carpet, of course. Easy parking access also tells the buyer that in buying your house they will not have parking issues. Make their time seem more important than yours. If they would like to come over in an hour and a half, welcome them to come on over. If it’s inconvenient for you, rearrange your schedule to make it work. Remember, there are several other houses they can look at if yours is unavailable when they feel like looking.

Do market the house in as many ways as you can find to do so. Use the internet to list it, as nearly 80% of all home buyers look first online for houses before they narrow their choices down. It’s convenient and quick. Use flyers posted everywhere you can post them like church, school, civic club meetings, the gym, and give some to your friends. Use open houses, virtual tours, and photographs.

Use lots of good photographs. Place a sign or two in front of your house. Tack signs to light posts and ask to leave them in local stores on their bulletin boards. Before you put them up in public places, ask first and make sure there are no ordinances against it.
Do be sure to show off your home’s greatest assets. The features that you love can be advertised as features that a potential buyer might also enjoy. Do you enjoy coffee in the sun room? Put that in your listing. Talk about how the sunset glows through the large west windows every evening.

Do price your house correctly for the current market. Study market trends and compare recent sales of homes in your immediate neighborhood that are similar to yours. By making a comparison, you’ll be ahead of the game and will be in a position to price your house just below what the market will bear, making your house the best bargain on the block.

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American Renewal Properties http://www.webuyhouses-nova.com, is a Northern Virginia real estate solutions company that buys, fixes and sells residential real estate in Virginia and the metro-DC area.