subject: Always Rely On Personal Experiences When Trying To Sell Your Home [print this page] Actually, selling a house on your own is easier once you have acquired some of your own personal experience. Once you've actually done it at least once yourself, and you learn a few things about what to do, you will undoubtedly find that it's much easier the next time. Many people find that they learn what they don't want to do the next time after their first experience. Many people mention that they learned some things the hard way when they tried to sell a house on their own.
It's not that selling a house on your own is so difficult, but I'd like to compare it to changing the oil in your own car. I'm not sure how many people change their own oil, but I'll bet that it's a very small percentage of all drivers, and it's obvious that it's just not worth the trouble to most people. The truth is, changing the oil in any vehicle is potentially very messy, and it also requires a few special tools most of us do not own when selling a house.
I'm suggesting that the same analogy can be used about selling a house on your own - it, too, can be messy and it also requires a few special tools. Selling your house is different of course, because real estate messes are not the same as oil spills, they are merely transactional. When you have little or no experience for how to sell a house fast on your own then perhaps you are as unfamiliar with selling a house as other people are unfamiliar with changing their oil. When you have some experience, I'm guessing that you'll be laughing at these words because you'll totally agree.
Let me explain that when I say the messes that can come up during the process of selling a house on your own are transactional, I mean they involve people and they involve paperwork. Marketing a house, showing a house, selling a house and closing the sale transaction are activities that require certain skills. Most people learn these skills over time, with personal experience. When I became an investor and started buying and selling houses I had a lot to learn, too. So, I'm writing this article, hoping that people who are thinking about selling a house may benefit.
It's really important to realize that selling a house is a job. To sell your own house you have to be willing to take on another job and willing to learn how to do that job. Many people don't choose to see it this way at all. But selling a house on your own really is a job, and it is a specific job requiring specific skills. Basically, you have to learn the necessary skills to sell a house now, or you have to hire someone to help you, especially in the present marketplace.
