Spoken Gently's Blog: Sellers

When going through the process of selling a piece of real estate, a home owner most likely bristles at the thought of spending more money to sell the property on top of a real estate agent’s commission. However, in the case of staging, Realtors that customarily go through a professional staging service can see much better results, selling the home quicker and for a higher price. The added cost may scare some sellers away, but those that get on board are quickly rewarded.  Read more.

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The reason the value of a home can become such an issue for a seller is the amount of emotional attachment to the home fostered over a million memories created in the home, no matter how long the seller happened to live there. A seller is aware of all of the little things that were done to the home, the minor home improvement here and there that have taken the home from its raw state at purchase to the mature home that is now on the market for a new owner. That transition can produce many mixed feelings, one of them an over-inflated image of what West Richland is worth.

As difficult as it may be, the best advice for a seller is to remain as neutral as possible during the home’s sale process, using an impartial eye to look at the home as it stands in…

Hiring a staging company to make your Tri City Wa home sparkle is a great way to help your home show better and more readily impress the potential buyers that take showings at your home, but staging is an expense that not all home sellers are willing to invest in. For those sellers, there are some tips that staging companies use to make a home show as well as it possibly can that can be implemented without too much work or hassle. While they and advertising will not substitute for a staging company, they can give your home selling a fresh look.

Capturing the attention of a Tri City Wa buyer that takes a showing with your home is one of the most important and overlooked parts of the home selling process as an inordinate amount of effort goes into…

One of the ways movers can get into trouble is by packing away valuable information that they may need on moving day for your home. Under a pile of boxes that all look the same, finding a piece of paper or bottle of medicine can be an exercise in finding a needle in a haystack. The same applies to your pet’s veterinary records, medications and other critical items that might be necessary on moving day of your real estate. With all of the hustle and bustle around a move, it is entirely possible for something to happen to your pet. When moving home that is sold, consider the worst case scenario for your pet and plan for it.

In that same vein, make sure that the identification for your pet is on the pet at all times and up to date should the hectic nature of…

As anyone with an expired MLS listing or seven-month stay on the market will tell you, there are a number of reasons your home may not sell. A home may not be in a great location, it may not show very well, it may pale in comparison to other similar homes in the area and it may simply not garner the level of interest it needs to see an offer. Simply put, there are enough potential barriers to a real estate sale already inherent to the process without adding a seller’s desire for a particular sales price into the mix.

Understanding that can greatly reduce a seller’s stubbornness in sticking to a particular price point as any seller has the goal of a timely transaction in mind. Sticking to an unwieldy price for real estate will only elongate the process,…