We Tried to Sell Our Home by Owner

We Tried to Sell Our Home by Owner

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We Tried to Sell Our Home by Owner

I’m Harvey James, thanks for stopping by my website. My wife and I thought it would be easy to sell our house without the help of a realtor. We live in an affluent residential area where homes sell quickly. Our house is in excellent condition inside and out, so of course it would be easy to sell, right? Wrong! We found that there’s nothing simple about selling your own home. We put a sign out front and did a bit of advertising. Five months later we still had our house on the market and had only had one very low offer. My wife suggested we contract with a broker, so we decided to give it a try. Three weeks after the agent listed our home, we had accepted an offer and were in escrow. There are many reasons to list with a realtor. I hope you benefit from my story.

 

3 Things To Keep In Mind When Looking For Affordable Homes For Sale

26 July 2017
 Categories: Real Estate, Blog

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When looking for homes for sale for you and your family, it is very important that you do all that you can to stay within your budget. This allows you to easily make the house payment each month, and makes having your own home enjoyable, instead of a big source of stress for you. Thankfully, there are a few things that you can do to help make this happen. This article will discuss 3 things to keep in mind when looking for affordable homes for sale. 

Limit Your Search Engine Preferences

A great way to stay within budget when looking at homes for sale is to limit your search engine preferences. When you are online looking at all of the real estate listings in the area, you can choose to look at homes that are within a certain price range. This allows you to see all of the homes that you can afford, without showing you homes that are way too expensive for you. Since it can be hard to go back to what you can afford when you have seen lavish homes that are out of your price range, it is best to simply avoid looking at these high-priced homes altogether.

Use Your Real Estate Agent's Knowledge

Working with a real estate agent is an excellent idea for so many different reasons, one of them being that they are a great tool when it comes to finding an affordable home. They will not only show you all of the homes that are listed within your desired price range, but they can also show you homes that are a bit more expensive, but have been on the market so long that you can put in a lower offer. This gives you the opportunity to get a home that you couldn't otherwise afford. They will also tell you what offer is reasonable for any home that you are interested in, so that you know how low of an offer you can put in and still be taken seriously by the sellers. 

Find A Fixer Upper

If you or your spouse are handy, then you should consider purchasing a fixer upper. A fixer upper is going to be much cheaper than most homes for sale because of the work that they need to have done. However, if you are handy, then you can do a lot of this work yourself, and you will only have to pay for the cost of materials. This can also make your home a fun family project, and something that you can spend time doing together.