How To Prepare For A Fast Home Sale

There are two different ways to get prepared to sell your house

, and those two represent the mental and the physical preparations. Getting started with both parts of the process will help you move in the direction of making a successful sale. The physical preparation involves the house itself, meaning cleaning and fixing it up, de-cluttering repairing anything that's broken. You just want your house to look its best. Preparing your house is the easy part, but the harder part is the mental work you need to do before putting your house on the market.

It may sound backwards to you, but rest assured that I know what I'm talking about, having been a real estate investor for over thirty years. It seems strange that the mental processes involved in selling a house can be so difficult, but it's been my observation that they are simply intimidating to many sellers when trying to sell a house quickly. They were intimidating to me at first when I was trying to learn how to sell a house.

Moving out of a house is rated up right up in the top part of the list of very stressful life situations. I've seen it rated right up there with "death of a spouse." When we are dealing with strong memories and emotions it can be far much more taxing than dealing with our belongings. And that is why I am saying that the mental process of selling a house is the hardest part.

Mental activities include making a lot of decisions. You will be deciding whether you prefer to sell for the highest possible price, or to get the quickest possible sale. I've noticed that both of these goals cannot usually be met. Although it is not completely impossible, it is simply unlikely. Most sellers know what they want ahead of time, but for some it's not an easy decision. Looking carefully at your financial circumstances can help you simplify your decision. In some ways, the decision makes itself; when you know your real goal you will be confident about how you need to proceed in order to sell your house and accomplish your financial or time frame goal.

After you have made the first important decision, then you can move on to the next step which involves making another decision. This one requires you to determine how much marketing you plan to do on your own. What activities directed toward selling your house do you have time and energy to complete? Are you going to list with an agent or sell by owner? If you have internet skills, you can certainly put them to good use posting classified ads online. There are no right or wrong answers to these questions; you just have to determine your personal preferences in order to focus on getting prepared to sell your house.

by: Leo Kingston

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