Checklist for selling

[Anonymous]

We are going to put our house on the market in October. We are selling due to divorce. DW always moved out.

We have already moved everything out of the home. Only my bedroom has my bed and dresser and that's it.

The house is move in ready. It needs absolutely nothing. We did major upgrades roof, A/C, windows, doors the past 2 years. And it's a very simple split level house 2k sqft. Very easy to maintain. Whoever buys this house if they just want a functional home that will not need anything major in at least 5 years or more, will be getting a great deal.

What do I need to do before calling the realtor? I have a guy coming next week to clean the windows in/out and power wash the house and fence.

Anything else?

[Anonymous]

You should already have a realtor to advise on this stuff. If the house is that empty you should stage. Split levels are a hard sell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should already have a realtor to advise on this stuff. If the house is that empty you should stage. Split levels are a hard sell.

I hate split levels. I am from NY and they are all over the place. NY still has a massive of very old split levels built in the 1960s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are going to put our house on the market in October. We are selling due to divorce. DW always moved out.

We have already moved everything out of the home. Only my bedroom has my bed and dresser and that's it.

The house is move in ready. It needs absolutely nothing. We did major upgrades roof, A/C, windows, doors the past 2 years. And it's a very simple split level house 2k sqft. Very easy to maintain. Whoever buys this house if they just want a functional home that will not need anything major in at least 5 years or more, will be getting a great deal.

What do I need to do before calling the realtor? I have a guy coming next week to clean the windows in/out and power wash the house and fence.

Anything else?

You are good. You have done the essentials. We are on the market and we have not come across a house ready like yours. Every single has we visited has had some major issues that the delusional sellers want to pass as routine maintenance type of stuff. There is a lot of garbage out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are going to put our house on the market in October. We are selling due to divorce. DW always moved out.

We have already moved everything out of the home. Only my bedroom has my bed and dresser and that's it.

The house is move in ready. It needs absolutely nothing. We did major upgrades roof, A/C, windows, doors the past 2 years. And it's a very simple split level house 2k sqft. Very easy to maintain. Whoever buys this house if they just want a functional home that will not need anything major in at least 5 years or more, will be getting a great deal.

What do I need to do before calling the realtor? I have a guy coming next week to clean the windows in/out and power wash the house and fence.

Anything else?

Why did you spend so much on the house you are going to sell in 2 years that will probably be torn down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are going to put our house on the market in October. We are selling due to divorce. DW always moved out.

We have already moved everything out of the home. Only my bedroom has my bed and dresser and that's it.

The house is move in ready. It needs absolutely nothing. We did major upgrades roof, A/C, windows, doors the past 2 years. And it's a very simple split level house 2k sqft. Very easy to maintain. Whoever buys this house if they just want a functional home that will not need anything major in at least 5 years or more, will be getting a great deal.

What do I need to do before calling the realtor? I have a guy coming next week to clean the windows in/out and power wash the house and fence.

Anything else?

Why did you spend so much on the house you are going to sell in 2 years that will probably be torn down

Read the post, doofus.

[Anonymous]

Do a deep clean and make sure the curb appeal is good: clean up the yard, trim shrubs, put out a few colorful pots of flowers. Paint if the walls look dingy. Depending on where you are, price the house realistically. Staging is a matter of preference. I preferred seeing empty houses when we were looking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do a deep clean and make sure the curb appeal is good: clean up the yard, trim shrubs, put out a few colorful pots of flowers. Paint if the walls look dingy. Depending on where you are, price the house realistically. Staging is a matter of preference. I preferred seeing empty houses when we were looking.

Same here. In fact when we sold our first home the realtor told us that a lot of people commented on how big the house was lol. In our case it felt furniture made our house smaller.

Split levels look bigger when empty especially with the high ceiling that many of them have.

[Anonymous]

What zip code? Try work
Ing with someone that is willing to lower the commission and realtors in that area.
Also, consider a conceirge they can help with.

[Anonymous]

We have been looking for a move on ready home. We can't find it. The only move in ready are new constructions. All previously owned homes we are looking at have a host of issues. If it was just minor issues like paint etc we would jump on them.

[Anonymous]

OP, once you engage with a realtor they will give you a checklist. You can then decide what makes sense for you and plan accordingly. The realtor ideally will have a fix-it crew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, once you engage with a realtor they will give you a checklist. You can then decide what makes sense for you and plan accordingly. The realtor ideally will have a fix-it crew.

Only if he has a good realtor. 9/10 are a disaster and useless. And just because someone has been doing something for X number of years does not mean they are good at it.

OP knows his house best, and he has a small home, so he should fix what he thinks need to be fixed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, once you engage with a realtor they will give you a checklist. You can then decide what makes sense for you and plan accordingly. The realtor ideally will have a fix-it crew.

Only if he has a good realtor. 9/10 are a disaster and useless. And just because someone has been doing something for X number of years does not mean they are good at it.

OP knows his house best, and he has a small home, so he should fix what he thinks need to be fixed.

Yikes. I guess we lucked out with ours.

[Anonymous]

Staging makes a huge difference and isn’t expensive if done right. Our place looked better than whenever we lived there and sold in a day for well over asking.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like there are no broken items and you already decluttered and cleaned.

Realtors will tell you to do all sorts of things that cost money. Ignore them. They're all either things that won't actually net you more money at closing or they're funding their buddies who give them kickbacks.

Realtors are happy to tell you to put $25K into your home when it will make it a little easier for them to do their job but will net you less at closing.

Negotiate the commission with them. Look at Redfin and other discount brokers. Listing agents can't squeeze more from buyers, so just pay as little as possible to yours.