Three Easy Steps to Sell My Home

The price tag on my home is looking really good. After research on capital gains tax, and the benefits of having a primary residence, I may still be asking myself, what can I do to sell my home, and purchase a smaller home. There are many options out there to help sell homes, including excellent realtors. Enjoy these three easy steps created to sell my home.

ly1. Showcase the home:

There are many actions, and many professionals to showcase and sell a home. These include making the interior and exterior of your home clean, decluttered, and open. There are two main reasons for this.

A. It makes a home feel bigger, and creates space for the potential buyer to dream.

B. When searching through pictures on devices and desktops, less is best on most images and small screens. More items clutter and distract from the layout and feel of a room. Especially images that incorporate a wide-angle or 360 panoramic views.

Curbside appeal on the exterior has often been one of the highest return on investment efforts that a homeowner can do. Consider the landscape, the front door, and the garage door.

There are many professionals out there that can help you showcase your home. Landscapers, architectures, interior designers, and more. If nothing else, get a few opinions from your neighbors. I have found neighbors are intrinsically motivated to help the next-door owners’ yards look beautiful.

Once all of the finishing touches have been created on the home. Hire Toursvirtual.com to complete a 360 panoramic virtual tour walk through. Then some drone footage of your home with aerial images of your property lines, and the neighborhood that it is in. If one would really like access to buyers from around the globe, home owners will increase the value their home will sell for by creating content that answers a thousand questions with images and videos. Once your home has been packaged in a way that potential buyers can become fully informed, your house will sell for more. The number of people that can view your property from their phone and make a solid decision on this investment will surpass any yard sign, physical tour, or estate sale. The quality of the images, videos and 360 may have the highest return on investment for all for sale by owner houses by allowing the potential buyers to physically see your home fully and virtually.

2. Publish the home:

There are many membership websites where owners can create accounts, and publish content representing the homes. This includes, realtor.com. Trulia.com, zillow.com. There are also individuals that will add your listing to an MLS website that is mainly utilized by realtors for a nominal fee.

Besides membership website listings, social platforms like Facebook are becoming increasingly popular to sell homes. There are Facebook groups dedicated to this in every region. Take a minute and search your favorite social platforms to see how your community and friends are utilizing these social platforms to sell homes.

The more information published about your home, the more questions that are naturally answered for potential buyers from around the world. Fully completing a profile is super advantageous. Some listings also have the option to add a link to another website where the virtual tour is stored. This is where my service, Tours Virtual is the best, and the easiest. Tours Virtual creates a listing that fully showcases a slide show virtual tour, 360 virtual tour, and a aerial and land video walk-through of your home. This makes it so much easier for you to sell your home. If you’d like to add an auction feature to the home price, this is also available.

3.  Close the Home Sale:

This step frequently takes the least amount of time, and is the most intimidating. However, I hear people rehearse this step of the process more than any other part of the selling my own home process. Personally, it is my favorite part. It is when both the owner and the buyer come to a win solution for a transaction. Many use a variety of ways to determine the value of a home. The best solution for the owner frequently is finding which buyers are willing to pay the most for it. For this purpose, Toursvirtual.com offers an auction feature that can help owners discover the perfect buyer. 

My wife and I were fixing up our home. We had already completed step one and two of this process. She was pruning trees in the backyard and I was working inside. Then an older kind man peaked his head over the fence. He had seen all the work that we had done to showcase and publish the home online. His wife wanted to retire in her home state, and they had been impressed with the virtual tour they had virtually went through from their current residents hundreds of miles away.

When they arrived to the house, and saw the virtual tour was an accurate representation of their desired home, they asked few questions, and immediately made an offer. Shortly thereafter we settled on a price. It was a win scenario for both the buyer and the owner. In fact, the buyer was generous and gracious. He made us feel like we were fulfilling his dreams.

If we do the upfront effort to showcase, and publish the home, the people that will come to the home have already decided more or less whether thy want to buy it. They have personally identified with the information that was shared, and they already found value in the home before arrival. Some listing offer less information in hopes to attract more potential buyers. This in turn requires more work for both the owner and the buyer. The more informed we make the potential buyer through our publishing, the easier it is for the right person to find your home.

In this scenario, the buyer had already purchased many homes. So it didn’t take much. He told us what title company he wanted. Then actually paid for the home with cash. As someone that professionally showcases homes, I compared our publishing, pictures, 360 virtual tour to everyone else. We were the best representation and completion. This is how the right buyer found us. We did our part. I will not promise that all buyers will pay with cash. However, those that fully showcase and publish their homes professionally will more readily attract the right buyers.