Seller's checklist
How Effective are Newspapers or Magazines?
Yes, it is true that newspapers and magazines can help sell homes, but most of the time they come up short when a potential buyer wants convenient additional information on your home.
How Much Should I Budget For The Services Of A REALTOR®?
Many of the fees have been negotiated between the seller and the listing agent. The fee can range from 3% - 10% for marketing a home.
What I Can Do For You
- Provide accurate market information to value your home
- Evaluate the surrounding housing market
- Show how to make your home stand out
- Present financing options for a smoother transition into your new home
- Value your home correctly from the start
- Calculate your Net Proceeds
- Help you evaluate the difference between cost and value
- Advertise and Market your home for maximum exposure
- Submit your home to every area agent through the REALTOR® exclusive Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
- Create custom publicity flyers
- Promote your home on our community REALTOR® tour, so it can be examined by active agents
- Schedule the placement of the sale sign so everyone knows your home is on the market
- Add the convenience for showings with a professionally recognized lockbox, which tracks everyone who has come to see your home
- Gain exposure through a public open house
- Educate you and your buyers on various ways to make buying your home easy
- Personally speak to no less than 80 of your neighbors about your home, neighborhood and ask them if they know of a friend, family member, co-worker or acquaintance that has been thinking of moving into the area
- Update you on market conditions throughout the sale
- Provide you with feedback on all activity regarding the sale of your home: I’ll maintain an inventory of sign calls, agent showings, open house visitors and REALTOR® previews
- Follow-up on all showings, answer agents’ questions, and motivate buyers to purchase your home
- Review buyers’ financial qualifications so you can close on time, saving you time, money and headaches
- Work on your behalf, with your interests in mind during negotiations, minimizing your stress with experience in selling homes
- Organize the closing process with escrowing earnest money, title work, financing, insurance and utilities transfer all to ensure a smooth, hassle-free closing
- Personally deliver your proceeds check

Carl Schwagmeyer