Selling Your Home

Mission Statement: This desktop space provides general information on ways to

enhance your home for selling purposes.

Task Definition: To seek inexpensive effective ways to sell your home.

-How are you going to advertise my home? My husband and I would like to try to sell our house by owner for

three months or so until we rely on a realtor. -How can I prepare to show my home?There are a number of repairs we need to fix before we sell. -How much time and money am I willing toinvest in fixing up my home?By our calculations, it looks like we can spend $2,500.00 to fix up the

house. -How do I determine the right sales pricefor my home?We aren’t really sure…. But we plan on looking around the county to

see what houses are selling for.-Do I understand all the aspects of a realestate transaction, appraisal, titleinsurance, inspections, liens, deeds,easements and home warranties?

I do not understand all the real estate jargon.

Information Seeking Strategies

- Materials (books, videos, DVDs, manuals, hand-books, etc)

Plan on visiting the EVPL

- Websites

- Banking ProfessionalsContact our bank rep. Marge Shelhouse

- Visual Aids (virtual tours and open house tours)

- Family and Friend advice

Use of Information- Cost effective ways to fix

up your home

- Free advice

- 24/7 access to most information (websites, virtual tours, advice)

- Better your chances of selling your home faster and for a greater profit

Synthesis- Instructional guidance combined with a

seller’s motivation can get a house ready for the market.

- Once a to-do list is created and your mission is carried out, fixing up a house can be a rewarding project.

To-Do List- Fix front door screen- Fix step that the dog chewed on- Paint laundry room- Paint bedrooms- Light fixtures for bedrooms- Rent a storage unit and move some of the

furniture out of the house- Replace dead shrub out front- Caulk around the tub in the bathroom- Clean the house- Power spray the outside siding- Pull weeds in flower beds

- Invite friends and family members to tour your home and look for further improvements.

- Answer the questions found on the websites to see if you have dotted all your i’s and crossed all your t’s.

- Check your financial situation to see if you should upgrade any major problem areas.

- Hire an inspector to determine further needs

- Review the simple but meaningful buyer’s needs: cleanliness and curb appeal.

Evaluation

Use- Apply the useful knowledge found in

materials- Practice giving tours of your home with

friends and family members-Practice buyer/seller conversations (know

the square footage, the year of a new roof, installation of windows, taxes, subdivision guidelines, etc)

- Manage information related to your home (selling/buying costs of surrounding homes for sale, mortgage loan rates, blueprints, estimates of monthly bills, etc)

- Familiarize yourself with correct terminologies and social demeanors needed when introducing your home.

Big 6 Model

Desktop Space by

Maureen Barton