Selling your house: Ways to improve it!

[jdirgo]

All of these tips are excellent and spot-on. But there's one vital thing you can do.

The single most important thing you can do is listen to your agent's advice and carefully review the information they provide about competing properties, etc. You as the seller set the price, of course, but listen to their advice carefully.

What you bought it for doesn't set the sales price, the market does.

What you want or need to get out of it (either for a new house or whatever) doesn't set the sales price, the market does.

What your non-real-estate-professional friends think it should sell for doesn't set the sales price, the market does.

What your neighbor's third-cousins sold her house for doesn't set the sales price, the market does.

Yes, your house is amazing and unique -- there's nothing else like it -- but that doesn't make it worth $50,000 more than everything else on the market in the same neighborhood and in similar condition.

John Dirgo, RA, ABR, e-PRO
Island Trust Properties, LLC
808-987-9243 cell