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Avoid These Common Mistakes When Selling Your Home

Avoid These Common Mistakes When Selling Your Home

Despite Indiana’s booming seller’s market, the fall-through rate on real estate purchases is at an all-time high. “What’s happening is buyers are forced into making very, very quick decisions,” says Jada Sparks, managing broker at Carpenter Realtors’ Anderson office. “They’re forced to walk into a house and make a decision in five minutes or they’ll lose the house. That sets a tone that makes the transaction much harder. The buyers get emotional, start to backtrack, start to question. It’s setting us up to start transactions on shakier ground.”

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A Yard Sign and Internet Listing Isn’t Enough: Aggressively Marketing a Home Brings More Buyers and Better Offers

Central Indiana has hundreds of real estate companies and thousands of licensed agents, but when it comes to resources not all are equal. Working with a realtor who is backed by strong resources — especially marketing and training — ensures your home gets seen by as many potential buyers as possible and that the transaction goes smoothly, quickly and stress-free.

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Getting Your Home Ready to Sell

You want to sell your home, and you want it to go quickly and for your asking price. Sound like it’s too good to be true? The reality is that how fast your home sells and what you get for it does depend on the market and how well it’s marketed, but it also depends on you. For example, when people look for a new home, they are far more attracted to homes that need no work and that show very well, even when the specs are the same as a run-down house that just doesn’t “wow” them.

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Marketing sells homes: How choosing a realtor with resources will help you sell faster

Central Indiana has hundreds of real estate companies and thousands of licensed agents, but when it comes to resources not all are equal. Working with a realtor who is backed by strong resources — especially marketing and training — ensures your home gets seen by as many potential buyers as possible and that the transaction goes smoothly, quickly and stress-free.

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