For Sellers

Selling your home has always been challenging, and the past few years have made it even harder.  To help earn the best possible price for your home in the timeframe that works with your needs, you need to choose a real estate professional with the local knowledge to price your home, the marketing tools to bring buyers to your door, and the business experience to negotiate the possible best deal.  You need an Executive.

Executives Versus Agents

A real estate Executive is more than an agent.  An Executive is a trusted source of local information, familiar with every block of every neighborhood, able to promote what’s special and unique about your property, and savvy enough to answer hard questions from sellers.  An Executive understands local market conditions to set a price that will be attractive to buyers, but still get you what you need format he sale.  Above all, an Executive is a professional, with years of experience negotiating deals and managing legal and regulatory red tape.  When you’re dealing with an Executive, you can relax and focus on the next stage in your real estate journey, knowing you’re in good hands.

Setting the Stage

An Executive will work with you to balance your financial desires and time constraints with the current market situation in your neighborhood and region.  Your Executive can also advise you about the viability of home repairs and additions, home staging, and other pre-sale improvements that could help you sell your property–or end up losing you money.

Marketing Your Home

Once you’ve settled on a price and prepped your home for showing, your Executive will market your home in a number of ways, including yard signs, print ads, Web marketing, and email campaigns.  When you work with an Executive, you can expect highly-targeted exposure that bears results.  Executives are expert networkers with years of experience finding buyers–not just browsers.

Sealing the Deal

By the time you receive an offer, you and your Executive will have established a negotiation strategy and financial baselines.  When negotiations begin, Executives can use their knowledge of the process to field counter-offers and work within your guidelines to ensure that you accept only the best possible deal.  Part of that deal includes limiting your legal liability, to avoid unexpected post-sale costs related to unknown issues with your home.  Your Executive will escort you through the entire buying process, until the final paper is signed, escrow is closed, and the check has cleared in your bank.

I’ve included some relevant blog posts and links for your review.  If you would like more information on how an Executive can help you sell your home, please contact me.

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Kansas City, MO Makes the LIST

List of Improving Housing Markets Expands to Nearly 100
RISMEDIA, Tuesday, February 07, 2012— The list of housing markets showing measurable improvement expanded by 29 metros in February to include a total of 98 entries on the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI), released today. Thirty-six states are now represented by at least one market on the list.

The index identifies metropolitan areas that have shown improvement from their respective troughs in housing permits, employment and house prices for at least six consecutive months. The February index adds some metropolitan areas that have been particularly weak; this is due to the fact that the IMI measures improvement from a bottom, and some of the hardest hit markets are showing signs of coming off of extreme lows. Keeping this in mind, notable new entrants to list in February include Miami, Fla; Boston; Detroit; Kansas City, Mo.; Portland, Ore.; Memphis, Tenn.; and Salt Lake City. Continue reading – Kansas City, MO Makes the LIST

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4 Bedroom in Lone Jack

Fresh interior paint, newer roof & gutters, tile flooring in kitchen/dining with island, open to vaulted great room with fireplace, double vanity, whirlpool & shower in master plus walk-in closet & double closet, large family room in walkout, plus 4th bedroom and full bathroom, 13×9 deck off dining area and 10×10 patio out walkout, fenced backyard, within walking distance of the elementary school.

Check out the listing information through the link below!

http://portal.heartlandmls.com/de.asp?ID=1935671406

 

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JANUARY 2012 Newsletter by Carolyn & Karen

Welcome to the most current Housing Trends eNewsletter. This eNewsletter is specially designed for you, with national and local housing information that you may find useful whether you’re in the market for a home, thinking about selling your home, or just interested in homeowner issues in general.

Please click on this link to view the Housing Trends JANUARY 2012 Newsletter:
http://carolynandkaren.housingtrendsenewsletter.com

Continue reading – JANUARY 2012 Newsletter by Carolyn & Karen

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Going it Alone: Do You Need an Agent?

Representing yourself can be a lonely, expensive road.

Representing yourself can be a lonely, expensive mistake.

Representing yourself can be a lonely, expensive mistake.

It’s 2012.  You can find nearly anything and anyone on the Internet. Do you really still need a to put an agent in the middle of your real estate transaction? What’s to stop you from finding a home online, going straight to the source, and saving yourself a few percent on the commission?

Nothing at all.  But before you decide to buy or sell a house without an agent, take this to heart: You’ll probably lose money on the deal.  A lot of it. We’ll repeat that for emphasis. Even if you save on commission, you’ll probably lose money in the end. Why?  For the same reason you don’t represent yourself in court, or fix your own transmission.  You’re not an expert.

There’s nothing shameful about that.  No one can be an expert in everything. You should certainly educate yourself as much as possible about your market (it’s your house, after all), but you don’t spend all day, every day working in the field.  You may have researched comparable homes in your area, but you don’t know what other buyers and Continue reading – Going it Alone: Do You Need an Agent?

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