Sell your own home in 7 easy steps

Posted on October 22, 2006
Filed Under Business tutorials, Real estates |

Yourmoney2keep has recently published a great post about selling real estates:
Balancing the decision to register your house with a local real estate agent or try and sell your own home can be a very daunting proposition. While you will reap the rewards of not paying out commissions if the house sells, the flipside is the wasted advertising and time and effort that accumulates if you can’t sell your own home.

Not to mention the many charlatans and con artists who will try to sell you a plethora of resources and tools to help sell your house. Finding objective advice can be just as difficult.

So what are the pitfalls and what strategies can the average person use to sell their own home and pocket the best return? Keep reading for some easy tips to get you moving - literally…

Prepare the Contract - Your initial step would be to contact a reputable conveyancer, solicitor, escrow officer etc to organise a written contract for the sale of your home. Having this in place prior to advertising your private real estate sale will smooth the transition from a buyer making an offer to seeing the cash in your bank account.Regardless of whether you sell your own home or you employ the services of a traditional real estate agent, the cost for this conveyancing will be incurred. It’s not an additional cost just to those who offer their home as a “For Sale By Owner.”