Archive for November, 2010

6 Steps to Selling Your Home Immediately: Promote It

Step 4: Promote It To some extent, all selling is a numbers game. Expose your property to enough people and sooner or later one of them will think it’s just right and buy it. That’s one of the big reasons that you list your home with an agent. Presumably that agent can expose your property [...]

6 Steps to Selling Your Home Immediately: Incentivize It

Step 5: Incentivize It In a challenging market you have to give buyers a reason to act. They need a reason to make the move to buy, and then you need to be sure it’s your house they’re buying. There are many ways to do this, but here are a few that you de?nitely will [...]

Your Home is an Investment: It Is Hard to Time the Stock Market and Housing Market

Unlike the Keenes, the Robinsons owned a home in 2003- a house they bought years ago for $100,000. They watched with increasing joy as home prices went up and up and up. They took a beating when they bought dot-com stocks at their peak in the spring of 2000, but the rising value of their [...]

6 Steps to Selling Your Home Immediately: Promote It

Step 4: Promote It To some extent, all selling is a numbers game. Expose your property to enough people and sooner or later one of them will think it’s just right and buy it. That’s one of the big reasons that you list your home with an agent. Presumably that agent can expose your property [...]

6 Steps to Selling Your Home Immediately: Agentize It

Step 3: Agentize It As noted earlier, buyers use agents to ?nd homes for them. Agents sell 85 percent of the homes in the United States. If you want to sell your home quickly and don’t want to do the sales work yourself, then you should use an agent. (There’s a long tradition of selling [...]

Your Home is an Investment: The Nifty Fifty

In the early 1970s, investors were in love with the Nifty Fifty-a small group of stocks so appealing that they should always be bought and never sold. Among these select few were IBM, Xerox, Disney, McDonald’s, Avon, and Polaroid. Each was a leader in its field, with a strong balance sheet and rapidly growing earnings. [...]

6 Steps to Selling Your Home Immediately: Prep It

Step 2: Prep It Preparing your home is a “must do” if you want to sell quickly and for the most money. You can think of the preparation as returning the home to the condition it was in when it was new. Of course, many sellers have improved their homes. They’ve added double pane windows, [...]