- Your agent can help you decide on a fair asking price for your home. Your agent’s knowledge of similar properties on the market will give you an edge over your competition.
- Your agent can give you suggestions on which features buyers are looking for. The suggestions can help you enhance and spotlight areas of your home to motivate buyers for a quick sale.
- Your agent can give you advice on what improvements and repairs to make – and not to make – before you put your home for sale.
- Your agent can also filter out pseudo-buyers who are not serious in their search. Some lookers just enjoy touring other people’s homes. You don’t want these people… and they’ll waste your time.
- A real estate agent can interview buyers and get preliminary information about their credit worthiness and if they can afford your home. Do you feel comfortable asking potential buyers about their personal finances, jobs, and credit?
- You don’t have time for unqualified buyers looking through you home and interrupting your family’s life. Your worst nightmare could be having your home tied up by an unqualified buyer.
- Selling your home directly to acquaintances could be potentially dangerous without a real estate agent. What if they don’t have sufficient down payment or they have a checkered credit history, or insufficient job stability to qualify? It’s easier to have your real estate agent pre-qualify them before they take your home off the market.
- When potential buyers must go through a real estate agent, you avoid having a stranger knock on your door saying, “I was just passing by and saw your home for sale. Could I look at it now?” You want to avoid having dangerous or unknown lookers coming into your home. Insist that all unknown parties contact your real estate agent.
- When you list your home with a real estate agent, you can request that your home be shown only during certain periods of time, which will be respected by the real estate agent. If you attempt to sell your home personally, prospective buyers won’t know what time of day or night to contact you.
- Your agent has experience in writing advertising for homes. Your agent can place ads that entice buyers to look at your home. Now is not the time to take a copyright and advertising course on how to write ads.
- Your agent can make an open house easier on you both mentally and physically. Aside from the emotional struggle of watching strangers breeze through your home, your agent will also keep your home safer.
- Your agent has access to more buyers and to your area’s Multiple Listing Service. More exposure means more buyers. More buyers mean a higher selling price for your home.
Terez B. Harris
Keller Williams Realty New Orleans
504 975 1033
TerezHarris@KW.com
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