So you want to sell your home in Chelan County?
You may want to get the profit out of an appreciated home or moving to a new area or wanting a larger home. Whatever your reasons, Don Reinhard of Reinhard Realty can help sort through the sometime emotional aspects of selling a home.
Some thoughts to consider when selling you home.
- The more you can separate the emotions from the actual goals you need to achieve, the better a position you can be in to evaluate you options and negotiate the best results.
- Make sure that you’ve examined all of the alternatives and that selling is really the best decision in your situation.
- Do you know where you are going to move? Have you already figured all that out?
- Make sure that what you can afford to buy after the sale makes the process of selling worth it.
- Don Reinhard can help you not only by making you aware of all of the costs involved in selling and the appropriate amount of profit you can realistically expect, but also by helping you research the area or home you’re interested in moving to and how much you’ll have to spend on the other end.
- Carefully Evaluate Your Property. Does it look marketable? Ready to sell? As objectively as possible, take a walk through and around your house, trying to look at it as a potential buyer would.
- Make a list of all the things you would want to change or repair if you were going to remain living here. You may not wind up doing all of these things, but start taking care of the small and inexpensive repairs and make sure your home is as clean and attractive as possible even before contacting Don Reinhard to list your property
As a seller, the asking price you determine for your property must take into account the following criteria:
• The level of supply and demand in the current local market.
• The condition and features of the house itself.
• Current sales prices of comparable properties in the area.
• The condition and features of the neighborhood.
As you can see, very few of those things are within your control. However, you’ll be in a much
better position to make the most of your sale if you at least have a full understanding of all the elements involved. Don's knowledge of the Chelan County Real Estate Market is so extensive that he will be able to figure out a range to list your home that would suit you. Ultimately it is you who will determine the list price. And very shortly, you will be able to tell if you priced it right or not. Trust Don to not just sell your home, but sell it for the right price.
Don Reinhard will provide you with a complete comparative market analysis showing the listing and sales prices and the features of other homes similar to yours in the area that have sold recently as well as the features and listing prices of homes currently for sale.
No matter how much you think you may have already learned from talking to neighbors and looking at ads in the local papers, seeing the hard, cold facts is still usually surprising to most sellers. You’re likely to find that the people you talked to tended to “round off” or exaggerate the prices they bought or sold for.
For Sale By Owner vs. Hiring an Agent
Many homeowners believe that to get the most money out of their home sale they should sell it themselves, thereby saving the commission they would otherwise pay to a broker. Indeed, approximately one-fourth of home sellers each year do not use a real estate broker and about 72 percent of those are happy with the results they achieved.
However, close to half of that 72 percent also stated that the next time around they would hire a real estate professional to help them sell. Why?
For many, the time, paperwork, research and hassles involved in getting their home sold on their own were not worth the amount of money they saved in commissions to a broker. For example: Do you know if what a buyer is presenting to you is legal and protecting? Are you covered from any legal jargon that could make you liable for things in the future? That buyer may have an agent that is not as ethical and may want to use the fact that you are a FSBO and benefit from it. Using Don Reinhard will insure you are signing legal, covering and protecting documents. He will make sure you understand every detail in the transaction. If ever there is something you don't understand, don't hesitate to ask.
For others, by the time they figured in the amount of fees paid to outside consultants, lawyers, inspectors, appraisers, and title, escrow and loan officers as well as marketing, advertising and other services and vendors, they make as well have paid the broker’s fee, which may have included some of these charges up front.
Some will also have discovered that the cost of recovering from a misstep or bad decision based on inexperience or lack of guidance more than outweighed the amount they saved in real estate agent fees.
DON REINHARD
Phone: 800-685-8238
Cell: 509-679-6419
Fax: 800-673-7502
Email: don@reinhardrealty.com