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If you are looking to sell you must have confidence in the abilities of your Real Estate Professional. Your Real Estate Professional must be able to be your Skilled Negotiator, Trusted Advisor, and Expert Facilitator. With out these abilities in your Real Estate Professional you still might be able to sell your home, but do you want to rest one of the biggest transactions of your life on a maybe? I don't!
Many companies make sure that their advertising and marketing is similar to their competitors. I guess this is done based on the assumption that their competitors advertising and marketing was working. An illogical assumption!
Make sure that your agent is working for you. After all you are his / her boss. If you feel so desired you should get a weekly report of what activities that your agent is doing to sell your home, get a written marketing plan that tells you in advance how your home is being marketed and that it is not just marketing by good idea.
Probably one of the most important thing that you can do to help sell your home is to interview several agents. Find out what the different companies offer and what different agents within a company offer. Real Estate Professionals are like ice cream, all ice cream is good some are just better than others.
You will notice several real estate reports at the bottom of this page an throughout this site. These are free resources for you if you should feel so inclined to use them. However, if you would like I can create a packet for you concerning selling your home and send it to you. This packet will include how I will be able to sell your home for the best price and best time that the market will allow.
When you’ve decided to sell, I will be your advocate, your guide, and your fierce negotiator. I will work hard to make yours a great sale.
I look forward to it.
Sincerely,
Travis A Martinez
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5 Questions to Ask Before You Hire a Real Estate Professional
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Passing the Sniff Test in Selling Your Home
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In addition to depersonalizing and decluttering, experts say home sellers need to be concerned about odors. Sales associates polled informally by REALTOR® Magazine Online a few years ago said the lingering presence of pets, tobacco, mildew, and decay in the air are major deal-breakers. Given that not everyone smells the same odors and that people can become accustomed to a particular smell over time, it is important for property sellers to have their sales associates or another objective party inform them about unpleasant scents in their homes.
According to Joan Cromwell, a Chevy Chase, Md.-based Long & Foster practitioner, if buyers "can't imagine clearing the smell, they can't imagine occupying that space." In particular, the smell of cat urine is especially difficult to remove. Chris Coffin of the Alexandria, Va.-based branch of the cleaning company ServiceMaster estimates that spot-cleaning carpets and replacing the carpet pad would cost home buyers upwards of $400; removing and replacing saturated floors would cost much more.
Coffin says that it often takes three cleanings to remove nicotine odors from walls, and some cases involve the replacement of insulation. Experts urge home buyers to be wary of air fresheners, candles, and other scents when touring homes, as they could be used to conceal offensive odors. A better solution for sellers, they say, is to clean drapes, sheets, and pet bedding as well as to air out the house.
Source: Washington Post, Dina ElBoghdady (06/23/07)
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Where Do Buyers Come From
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To market your home effectively, it is important to know what sources buyers are useing to find the homes they eventually buy.
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2004 |
2006 |
| Real Estate Agent |
39% |
85% |
| Yard Sign |
16% |
63% |
| Internet |
15% |
80% |
| Newspaper |
5% |
55% |
| Friend / Neighbor |
7% |
N/A |
| Open Houses |
N/A |
17% |
| Home Builder |
7% |
26% |
| Knew the Seller |
5% |
N/A |
| Home Magazine |
2% |
34% |
| TV |
N/A |
11% |
| Relo Company |
N/A |
5% |
*Source: National Association of Reltors Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers.
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Here are just a few more places that you can find my listings
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Hustle is doing something that everyone is absoutly certain can't be done.
Hustle is getting the order because you got there first, or stayed with it after everyone else gave up.
Hustle is shoe leather and elbow grease and sweat and missing lunch.
Hustle is getting prospects to say "yes" after they've said "no" twenty times.
Hustle is doing more unto a customer then the other guy is doing unto him.
Hustle is believeing in yourself and the business your in.
Hustle is the shear joy of winning.
Hustle is being the sorest loser in town.
Hustle is hating to take a vacation because you might miss a piece of the action.
Hustle is heaven if your a hustler.
Hustle is hell if your not.
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