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What do you want to accomplish with the sale of your home? Do you want to make a certain amount of money that you can put toward a larger or nicer home? Do you need to sell it as soon as possible to facilitate a move to a new city or area? Once you understand your needs, you can better craft your offer. For example, if you need to sell quickly, you might want to price your home lower than if your goal is to make a certain profit margin. Make sure you convey these needs to your team of real estate agents once you choose one so they can adjust your selling price accordingly.
Knowing how to price your home is one of the most important parts of the selling process. When you set a fair price in the beginning, you’ll get the most interest from other real estate agents and prospective buyers. Overpricing your home could lead to reduced interest, and underpricing leads to receiving less than what your home is worth. Working with a team of real estate agents is the best way to determine the right selling price for your home. A team of real estate agents with experience can determine what other comparable homes are selling for, evaluate the current market, and may even suggest a home appraisal.
If you’ve kept your home in showroom condition since you’ve lived in it, you’re in the minority of homeowners. Once you price your home, it’s time to start getting it ready to be shown to potential buyers. This includes getting rid of clutter, depersonalizing the space so that buyers can envision themselves in the space, making any small repairs, and doing a deep clean to make sure your home is in pristine condition.
We will develop a marketing strategy that is perfect for advertising your home. This involves listing the home and then driving the right people to that listing through social media campaigns, agent-to-agent referrals, traditional media, or SEO advertising. Our team creates a marketing campaign that aims to get the most possible traffic to your listing in the first three weeks after becoming a client.
Receiving an offer is an exciting part of the process, but it doesn’t mean the journey is over. We will evaluate each offer and make sure the party making the offer is prequalified or pre-approved by a mortgage lender and that their offer is acceptable to you. If the offer is too low, you can make a counter-offer or offer other ways to bridge the gap, such as covering some or all of the closing costs, making repairs, adjusting the move-in date, or leaving some appliances or fixtures for the new buyer.
Once we deem the offer is acceptable, we will review the proposed contract to make sure it’s all in order and includes the necessary components such as deposit amount, down payment, financing, inspection rights and repair allowances, contingencies, settlement date, and a list of fees and who will pay them. When both parties have agreed to the term, a final contract will be prepared by your team of real estate agents.
You have accepted an offer and are now very close to the end of your selling journey. But first, you and the buyer must make a list of what needs to be done before closing. In some cases, your home may need to be formally inspected, surveyed, and appraised. In other cases, major or minor repairs will need to be made before the house can close. We will head up efforts to develop and execute this list, get each action item paid for by the correct party, and make sure everything is in order by the closing date. A few days before the closing date, we will call the company closing the transaction to make sure everything is ready to go. If you haven’t done so already, you also need to make arrangements to move out of the home so the new buyer can take possession.
You’ve reached the last step in the seller’s process. When you close on a home you are selling, you are legally transferring ownership of the property to the new buyer. We will meet with the company closing the transaction to sign the final paperwork and go over any issues that have not yet been taken care of. During this time, you can also make plans with your team of real estate agents to handle final details such as canceling utilities, cable, and lawn or trash services, changing the name on accounts that the new owner is retaining and ensuring the new owner has instructions for all appliances that will remain in the home.
Property Purchased: 20730 Linwood Road, Deephaven, Lake Minnetonka Upon retirement, my wife and I decided we wanted to move closer to our kids. This led us to seek a home on Lake Minnetonka. We’re from Green Bay and had no re...
I have completed 12 transactions with Nick and his team. If it is within Nick's control, it happens as promised. From entry market transactions to luxury, he can handle it smoothly. You will continue the relationship and recomm...
Nick and Sage was amazing to work with. The process of buying and or selling a home can become super emotional and having Nick's expertise with factual data and analytics makes the process a lot easier to manage the process. Hi...
Nick and Sage were absolutely wonderful to work with. Expert knowledge, professionalism and responsiveness. We had a few challenges come up through our home selling process and Nick was right there with us working through it al...
Nick and Sage are best in class when it comes to real estate. They offered excellent advice on all aspects of the buying and selling process on everything from staging, selling strategy to maximize our offers received, and help...
We worked with Nick for almost 9 months to find a home in Minneapolis for the summer months and since we live in Florida, most of our interaction was remote and when we were on location, tightly coordinated. Nick was extremely ...
Nick and his team absolutely knocked it out of the park with both our purchase and sale! Nick provided great insight into the market, as well as different strategies to deal with the difficult market, not to mention very strong...
Nick was amazing to work with throughout our home buying process. His knowledge of the local market and negotiation skills were invaluable in helping us to find and purchase our dream home, particularly as we were moving from o...
We had a wonderful experience working with Nick and his team at Leyendecker Realty, and I cannot recommend them highly enough! We started looking at homes about 3 years before we bought, and Tony and Nick sent us MLS listings a...
We couldn't have asked for a better experience in selling our first home with Nick & Sage @ Leyendecker Realty. From our first meeting, Nick was extremely knowledgeable and prepared to educate us on overall market trends and sp...
My partner and I just bought our first home, and the experience with the Nick Leyendecker Team was simply incredible. When we began the search process we had no idea where to start, we looked at a couple of properties with vari...
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