FSBO Are You Selling A House Or A Home?

The problem with home sales is that the sale of your home will have more to do with the structural integrity of the roof and walls, the real estate documents and legal forms, and the location of the property than it will with the memories you've built up. You can't sell your memories, and those are what make a house your home. You need to take a step back and look at your home as a dwelling.

With a more critical eye for the house you're selling you can make better decisions about the offer you are willing to make to get the house sold so that you can move on to enjoy your new home.

The problem is that this advice can miss the point that you really are selling a home. You just aren't selling your home. Another time honored maxim of sales is that people don't buy the steak, they buy the sizzle. The same holds true for a house. People really aren't buying a house, unless they are investors, they are buying their next home.

This means that you need to walk a line between your home and the prospective buyers home. If you want to get their signature on the real estate forms, you're going to have to let them see the house as their home. Study after study has shown that people mentally take ownership of things they buy as a part of the buying process, not because of it. In other words they have to see themselves as the owners of the new home before they can commit to buying it.

One great way to help your prospective homebuyers with this process is to contract a professional home stager. Home stagers have experience in making a home out of a house by adding certain touches to the house that make it easier for people to see themselves living there.

The house stager will use an array of decorative touches like silk plants, specially selected magazines and books, baskets, throw rugs and even furniture and furnishings. The key to it is that they will arrange the house in a way that is neutral, without the clutter of your life and tastes. This means the buyers are presented with their potential home, not yours.

Research shows that professionally staged homes receiver higher average offers from buyers and sell in half the time of homes that are vacant, or homes that are decorated by the seller. That means that you can get more money for your home in less time and be signing the real estate forms for your new home that much sooner.

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