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A No Nonsense Way To Get Your Home Sold
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How To Ensure Your Home Will Sell
It can be a quite challenge to sell your home in today’s market. There are a lot of homes on the market and for some folks, it’s harder and harder to get your home to stand out.
I’d like to commend you on taking the first step to getting your home sold.
The reports you can receive explains some errors that occur before deciding to put your home on the market and how to avoid some real serious problems ( and not caused by you) once your home is listed for sale.
These special free reports will show you key, fundamental marketing principles and... it will empower you with knowledge that (once you apply it) has proven itself to be a blessing for homeowners across London and South West Ontario.
Here’s what a homeowner in Old South had to say: “When I got the reports I thought, this is just more junk saying how great some REALTOR is. Well, I was definitely wrong. The ideas it talked about made sense. And when we followed through... Ty sold our home in only 13 days!”
Here’s what another homeowner had to say: “Our FIRST REALTOR kept making all kinds of excuses... sales are slow... it’s a down market... all sorts of stuff. That’s when I got this report and read it. It helped me understand why our REALTOR was saying all that stuff. So, we used the ideas in the report and... sure enough... our home sold about three weeks later.”
Scroll down to download these reports immediately and learn how to sell your home quickly in any market,
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Avoid These Errors Before Putting Your Home on The Market
The decision to place your home on the market can involve a number of stresses and strains. Many home sales are motivated by circumstances outside your control: Job relocation, family problems, financial issues, divorce, and more. Others are related to family issues: The need for a bigger home, a better neighborhood, schools, etc. Whether you’ve lived in your home two years or 20, you know it’s not just a shelter, or even another investment. It’s the place where your dreams come to life. In flower gardens and family rooms. Backyard barbecues and home-cooked Sunday dinners. It’s the place we raise our children. The nest we nudge them out of, and welcome them back to again and again. And for some, it’s even our place of business. But there comes a day when it’s time to move on. The time to reflect on old memories, and prepare to build new ones. The time to leave the past behind for a new future. It’s no wonder why buying or selling a home is often emotionally charged and potentially overwhelming. That’s why I have created this report. Regardless of your reasons for selling, your goal is to sell your home. Unfortunately, The Way Many Sellers Go About Selling Their Home Leaves Them Wide Open To The Very Problems They’re Trying To Avoid.
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50 Inexepensive Tips to Dramatically Increase The Value of Your Home
Here are 50 inexpensive things you can do to enhance the value of your home. Time and time again when I show homes or list them, some or all of these tips would have dramatically sped up the sale or received more money.
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For Sale By Owner Myth buster
Something relatively new to real estate in the past ten years is the private home selling company. The proposition of saving thousands of dollars is enough to catch the attention of anyone. The idea of listing a home for anywhere from $400 for a sign on the lawn and an ad on a website, to a couple thousand dollars if you want some of the additional services that a REALTOR® typically provides such as setting your price, getting your house ready to sell, to assisting you in closing the deal is tempting and awakens the entrepreneur inside some of us.
The burning question private sale companies’ use as their hook is why would you give profits from your home sale to a REALTOR if you didn't have to?
The saying "if it looks too good to be true it probably is" something I still follow and while some private home sellers have had success, they are of the 3% in total of homes sold in Canada! Guess who sold the other 97%
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A No Nonsense Way To Ensure Your Home Will Sell
So, you’re ready to sell your home and you’re wondering: “What am I going to do?” The most important thing you can do right now is begin educating yourself about the process of selling your home. If you’re considering listing your home with a REALTOR® make absolutely sure he or she has the “skill set” it takes to market your home effectively. You see, marketing a home takes more than just sticking a sign in your yard, putting your property up on the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) and praying that it will sell. Anyone can do that! It takes innovative marketing to sell your home in today’s market place! It takes skill.
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How To Get Every Dollar You Deserve When Listing Your Home
The ability to reap additional profits on the sale of your home can be accomplished easily enough, if you make the right improvements. Many changes can provide the prospective buyer with enhanced feelings about your home. Feelings of more space, more light, more rooms, more closet space, greater privacy, warmth and security. Basic, simple and inexpensive improvements can provide an improved emotional response in a potential buyer.
An example could be something as small as a crack in the paint on a wall. By simply applying some plaster and touch-up paint, you eliminated what may be an unstated concern that your home was poorly maintained. Though the feeling may be unconscious, it's just as important that the potential buyer feel an overall sense of emotional desire for your home. If you are working with a small budget, these simple techniques will work absolute wonders.
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The 4 Most Common Ways Sellers Price Their Homes
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When buying or selling real estate here are 4 price strategies that are the most common that I have come across in my real estate career.
Clearly Overpriced: Every seller wants to maximize the amount they receive for their home. They may have an inflated value of what their home is worth because of: getting opinions from un-informed advisors and friends, having an over financed home, or they have renovated their home to a standard not consistent with their neighbours. My experience has been that unless this home has been on the market for three to four months, the seller will not drop his price. And if he does, and your offer is accepted, will the appraisal that your lender will order, what if the appraisal is below the offer price?
Somewhat Overpriced: About 75% of the homes on the market are overpriced. These homes sit on the market longer than they should as well. There are two main reasons these homes are overpriced. The seller believes that the home is worth more than the market has indicated, OR, the seller has left room for negotiating.
Priced Correctly At Market Value: Some sellers understand that real estate is part of the capitalistic system of supply and demand. They have realistically priced their homes based on a thorough analysis of other homes on the market prepared by a good and knowledgeable Realtor. These competitively priced homes usually sell in a reasonable time and very close to asking price.
Priced Below the Fair Market Value: Some sellers are motivated by a quick sale. These homes could attract multiple offers and sell fast, and, at or above, the asking price!
As a buyer, do you know which strategy was used? As a potential seller of a home, what will your strategy be and do you really have an accurate understanding of the market?
I hope I have raised your awareness of how prices are determined and if you are either buyer or a seller, quality representation can save you a lot of time and money.
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If Your Home Was Destroyed, How Much Insurance Would You Need?
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My brother and sister in law just had their home destroyed by a plumber who did not properly repair a toilet fixture in their upstairs bathroom. When they came home one afternoon from work, their upstairs had caved into the main floor! Extensive water damage and in turn, mould etc.
7 months later, 3 insurance companies involved, their house totally gutted and them living in rented quaters, no start has been made to restore the historic home! They are frustrated, hurt and may have to seek a remedy from the courts!
Hence, this article I hope may give you cause to rethink your inurer and coverage.
Over 70 percent of homes in Canada are underinsured. And, of those homes, 70 percent are underinsured by at least 30 percent. This is a major problem! The confusion between market value and replacement value is where many of these problems originate. Many people base their insurance coverage on the market value of their home. Market value is what a buyer will pay for your property, but this is irrelevant if your home is destroyed. What you should really be basing your coverage on is replacement value. This is much more complicated to compute.
When computing replacement value you must figure in all of the costs of rebuilding your home. This is often 20-30 percent more than new construction because of the added demolition and removal costs. Once the land has been cleared, you will need to add the cost of actually building your home by multiplying the square footage by the average cost per square foot.
You can find out average square footage costs from your local builder’s association or builder’s union. Then, you need to add in additional money for upgrades and improvements that you have made. Also, check your local building codes because changes in codes since your original home was built can cost a bundle when rebuilding. In some cases, it may cost even more to rebuild your home than the market value. 
This is often the case in run-down areas where land values have fallen. In any case, don’t just base your homeowner’s coverage on the lender’s requirements. These often only cover the mortgage balance leaving you with nothing.
If you are thinking of selling or buying soon, or, want to know what your home is worth for insurance coverage, and require competent and caring representation, call me at 519-435-1600.
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If Your Home Did Not Sell!
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If your home has just come off the market and hasn't sold, don't be discouraged. The reason it didn't sell may have nothing to do with your home or the market. In reality, your home may have been one of the the more desirable properties for sale!
If YOUR LISTING HAS EXPIRED AND YOU STILL WANT RESULTS, before you put your home back on the market, take a step back and review your situation.
Q Where should you begin? A. Start by making a commitment to do what it takes to market your home to get it sold. With the right system, the home sale you want is still well within reach.
Q Why didn't your home sell? A. Review your previous selling plan and you'll discover that an expired listing usually reflects a problem in one or more of these four major areas:
1 Teamwork
2 Pricing
3 Condition of your home
4 Marketing
To get the best results when selling your home,you need to team up with your sales representative to develop a powerful marketing plan that exposes your property to the widest possible pool of prospective buyers.
And Remember....
Not all REALTORS* are the same. The relationship between you and your Brokerage can make the difference between selling your home fast, or not selling it at all.
In todays's busy world, your listing needs to stand out and be marketed. We have a 128 step thorough marketing plan that gets results, we don't just plug a sign on your front lawn and pray that your home sells!
So..... what have you got to lose? Why not give us a call today at 519-435-1600 or drop us an email at info@enveloperealestate.com and see the difference!
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How to get your house exposed so that buyers can find you
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I was asked to list a house the other day that had been on MLS with another brokerage for 132 days and did not sell. I did my research and felt the asking price was correct and thought to myself, "What is wrong with the place?"
After viewing the home, which was in great condition and after meeting the exasperated home owners who are more than affable and motivated, I am pretty sure I know why the home did not sell.
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The only exposure was MLS
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No feedback from buyer agents to listing agent to seller
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Only 3 pictures shown on MLS listing
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No further promotion, no staging, no farming, basically hang a sign and pray it sells!
By listing with me this home was on 60+ websites, over 30 pictures, 2 virtual tours, all within 3 hours. Here are a few of the sights:
1. Homes and Land
2. AgentShowroom.com
3. Backpage.com
4. Bilingual Marketing Group
5. CampusHomesOnline.com
6. HouseHunting.ca
7. Clickable Directories, Inc.
8. CLR Search
9. Craigslist
10. eBay
11. eBay.ca
12. Enormo
13. Cyberhomes
14. Foreclosure.com
15. ePropertyStop.com
16. FrontDoor.com
17. Homefinder.com
18. Homegain
19. Hometrax
20. HomeTrader.ca
21. HotPads.com
22. HousingBlock.com
23. HouZoo.com
24. InvestorLoft.com
25. JunoDomains.com
26. Kazork
27. TheHousingPages
28. MBG Partners, LLC
29. MilitaryFSBO.com
30. Mitula
31. New York Times –
32. NewsyHomes.com
33. NTXHouseHunters.com
34. Oodle
35. PCS Real Estate Services
36. Point2Homes.com
37. PropertyShark
38. Real Estate Active
39. RealEstateChannel.ca
40. RealTown
41. RealtyShowcase.tv
42. RealtyPin
43. Relocation.com
44. RepeatProperty.com
45. SecondSpace Corporation
(aka LandWatch.com and ResortScape.com)
46. StreetSeed.com
47. Trovit
48. Trulia.com
49. Ultraforeclosure.com
50. Unique Global Estates
51. Vast.com
52. VirtualTour.com
53. VivaRealNetwork
54. Yahoo! Real Estate
55. Zillow
56. Zoocasa
57. Enveloperealestate.com
58. condosinlondon.com
59 Top10homeslondon.com
60. UWO.ca
Oh, and I almost forgot about Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin. Wait to you hear what I do with blogging, snail mail, print ads, signage, telephone and smoke signals (lol).
 I say to all my clients, I will get you exposure, I will get you showings, you control the price and product(your home), so with all the traffic I bring to your home, I have done my job, have you done yours with price and product?
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To provide a more detailed Comparative Market Analysis and Our Exclusive Free Home Audit, plus our innonvative Action Marketing Plan, we would be more than happy to also assess your listing in person.
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