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A Step-by-Step Guide to Selling your Home

Seller's Guide

A Step-by-Step First Time Seller's Guide

Putting your home on the market can be a stressful process, especially when you don’t know what to expect. Fortunately, with the help of an experienced agent and this easy to follow guide, you can smoothly complete the process. Following these steps will help you prepare so you can get organized and sell your home for the best price possible.​​​​​​​

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Step 1: Understand Why You're Selling

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 real estate agent once you choose one so he or she can adjust your selling price accordingly.

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Step 2: Determine Selling Price

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 real estate agent is the best way to determine the right selling price for your home. An agent with experience can determine what other comparable homes are selling for, evaluate the current market, and may even suggest a home appraisal.

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Step 3: Start Preparations

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.

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Step 4: Develop a Marketing Strategy

I 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. My 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.

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Step 5: Evaluate Offers

Receiving an offer is an exciting part of the process, but it doesn’t mean the journey is over. I 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.

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Step 6: Accept an Offer

Once I deem the offer is acceptable, I 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 agent.

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Step 7: Get Ready to Close

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. I 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.

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Step 8: Close

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. I 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 real estate agent 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.

Congratulations!

Once you have sold your home, you’re free to take the next step on your journey. Whether this is relocating to a new city, moving into a larger home, or downsizing and enjoying your life as empty-nesters, knowing all your selling responsibilities have been taken care of will help you achieve peace of mind for your new path.

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I was a buyer with a highly specific intuitive want for my wife and my retirement house. I had restored Victorian houses in the Galveston Historic District for the last 30 years, so my knowledge of standards for construction and aesthetic quality was high enough that I am sure most realtors would have gotten highly frustrated working with me. Nayeli Cutler was highly professional and patient with this old man and showed me dozens of houses over a 5-month period of time. She finally found me exactly what I dreamed of but never expected to find in Austin: a New Mexico architect's Santa Fe adobe style house, built into the hillside; with 3 kiva fireplaces; terracotta tiles; hand stripped logs in the ceiling; 5 wood planked corrals, a barn, 40+ trees in the front yard, and located in spittin' distance from 2 wineries and the Saltlick BBQ joint. Not to mention that the property was used for the set as the grandma's house in the Temple Grandin movie shoot. And it was within my upper price range! Stating I'm satisfied with Ms. Cutler's professional efforts is a gregarious understatement.

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We were one of Nayeli's very first customers. From the start, she was professional, thoughtful, thorough, and accommodating. We would recommend Nayeli at any time for real estate services. We indeed intend to use Nayeli again when the need arises.

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Based on my first-time home buyer experience in 2011, I can confidently say that Nayeli is the quintessential real estate agent. She was absolutely perfect in helping my wife and me find the right property and guided us through every step of the process. She always made herself available, which says a lot because the only times we were able to look at properties were after work hours or during odd times on the weekend. Aside from her real estate expertise, Nayeli has such a warm personality that made us feel comfortable when we were with her looking at properties, speaking with owners of those properties, or signing important paperwork. Some close friends of mine will be buying a home over the next year, and I will absolutely be recommending Nayeli to them.

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Nayeli helped me find a place to live in 2010, and she's very personable and professional at the same time. I really appreciate her honesty. She makes it obvious that she's more concerned with you finding a place you love rather than just trying to get you somewhere to stay. I've worked with multiple real estate agents before, and she's been by far the best I've had.

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The most detail-oriented team I've worked with! I bought my second rental property with this team, and I couldn't be happier. Highly recommend!

— Tyus E.

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We loved working with our agent! We have bought and sold homes before, and our decision to use this team made all the difference from previous experiences. They went way beyond the call of duty to make our process as easy and stress-free as possible. We highly recommend this team to anyone.

— Monica & Allen H.

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