Man with the Plan:
1) Where are you going?
- It is critcally important that you narrow down where you want to move before your start your search. If you are upgrading you want to make sure that you have enough money set aside to purchase what you want. If you don't narrow down the areas you are interested in you will become overwhelmed by the market and everything there. You need to decide what is important to you in your next location.
2) How soon do you need to be there?
- Understanding your timeframes will decrease the stress, anxiety and urgency that you may feel when selling and buying at the same time. If you don't plan out your timeframes well you may ended paying two mortgages for awhile or even worse, without a place to live!
3) What will happen if you don't move?
- What happens if your house doesn't sell? Maybe you don't get to start a new job, or the kids don't end up in an A rated school. How important is it to you that your home sells? It's important to understand what happens if you don't move. It's what understanding your plan completely focuses around.
Build your dream/team/Draft your All STARS!
1) Agents - Having your real estate experts on your side in integral in ensuring all of your timing works out well!
2) Lenders - You want to make sure you have a great lender who will help coincide both closing dates, make sure you have a great interest rate, ensure that you aren't over extending yourself with mortgages/downpayments etc, and can get you pre-approved for your next purchase as soon as possible
4) Appraisers - An appraisal is good in court! Have a great appraiser on hand so when you list your home you can get an appraisal and price your home what it's worth. That will help ensure the sale of your home and onto your next adventure!3) Inspectors - Having a good inspector in your corner not helps you purchase your next home but also helps you sell your current home! You have your inspector come in as part of the Certified PreOwned Program and if the home you need to sell has anything major that needs to be fixed you have PLENTY of time to take care of those things before it goes under contract and a buyer's inspector finds those same things and now you're in a time crunch OR becuause of those things the contract on the house you want to sell falls through. Just important, you use that same inspector to inspect the home you are purchasing! That way you get to know exactly what's going on with that home before you buy and go back to negotiating for repairs if necessary!
List your home on ther market.
1) CPO - Wrap your home up like a present ready to be opened!
2) SIRP - Strategic Incremental Reduction in Price: The market decides the perfect rpice of a home, not an agent or the homeowner. The SIRP ensures that as many people as possible see your home as often as possible.
3) Radio/TV - Make sure you are getting your home in front as MANY people as possible! Everyone watches TV or listens to the radio. Have your home be a listing of the week! The more people talking about it the more excited people will be!
4) Listing Storyboard - You're already utilizing television, radio, and MLS right? Go ahead and use the rest of the interet. Listing storyboard creates a Facebook type exposure for your home so all of the social media driven people can see your home too!
5) Professional Photography - The first place people look for home is on the internet. Let's face it first impressions are no longer in person. The first look people get of your home is pictures that are online. Professional photography will make your put it's best foot forward! A picture really does say a thousand words, and in real estate pictures drive emotion as well!
6) Staging - You want to make sure people can see THEMSELVES living in the home you have for sale. So we want your staging to as neutral as possible. Declutter as much as possible and keep a clean slate for buyers so they can imagine themselves in your home.