Selling Your Home

The Perfect Time to Sell Your Home

What is your home worth?


When is the best time to sell your property?

Anytime!  The area’s real estate market is alive throughout the seasons.  You just need to use the season to make your house shine in its best light!  During the spring and summer, your landscaping can be colorful with blooming flowers and trees.  You might plant flowers in your garden as well as keeping your bushes trimmed and the grass freshly mowed.  Keep your home cool with open windows or air conditioning.  Take advantage of spring-cleaning by straightening up closets and other storage areas.  Paint or paper your home in neutral colors as necessary and attend to small repairs such as loose handrails, damaged screens, and sticky doors.  Remove cobwebs and mold from under decks and eaves.

During the fall and winter, cheerfully decorating your home for the holidays will help highlight the positive aspects of your home.  Open drapes and replace dim light bulbs to make your home brighter and to create a warm atmosphere.  As the leaves fall, be sure to keep the yard raked.  Remove snow and ice from steps and walkways during the winter months.  Closets should be kept clutter free and excess furniture should be removed to make rooms look larger and inviting.  Holiday baking can be very enticing and assure that your home smells wonderful.

No matter what time of year, look at your home with a critical eye as if you were the buyer.  Do what needs to be done to show your property at its very best and to make it sparkle!

Checklist to Help Sell Your Property

  • Be certain your home is neat and excess furniture is removed.
  • Be sure bathrooms and kitchens are clean and fresh smelling.
  • Check yard and entryways for neatness.
  • Open drapes and make sure that windows are clean.
  • Replace dim light bulbs and make sure fixtures are clean.
  • Attend to sticky doors, loose doorknobs, damaged screens, and loose handrails.
  • Clean or remove rugs. Refinish floors.
  • Repair appliances, kitchen and bathroom fixtures.
  • Straighten up closets and storage areas.
  • Replace any items, such as chandeliers, which will not be remaining with the property.
  • Keep lawns and shrubbery trimmed.
  • Set the lighting to create a warm atmosphere especially on dark days or evenings.
  • Paint and/or wallpaper in neutral colors.
  • If possible, have pets either away from your home or confined.

Preparing Your Home

Your Terrie O’Connor Realtors’ sales associate can provide you with specific recommendations to help make your home look its best when you put it on the market for sale.  But that’s not all – let’s look at how we plan to help you accomplish your objectives – to obtain the best price and most attractive terms for your property in the least amount of time and minimal inconvenience:

  • Analyzing current trends in the marketplace as well as market supply and demand
  • Sharing current buyer behavior and perception of value
  • Creating a pricing strategy with you
  • Customizing a marketing plan for your property
  • Educating you on ways to add value to your property before it’s placed on the market
  • Providing consistent feedback on showings, trends, and changes in inventory throughout the listing period
  • Negotiating offers on your behalf to obtain the best situation for your specific needs
  • Overseeing the contingency process and, if necessary, negotiating any unanticipated issues
  • Assisting your buyer, if necessary, with financing and any other arrangements to ensure a smooth closing for you
  • Accounting for the collection of deposit monies
  • Supporting you right through to closing and beyond – we understand the process is not complete until you have received your full payment, the deed is delivered and the buyer has taken possession of the property

From Our President:

Since opening our doors in 1991, Terrie O’Connor Realtors has taken seriously our commitment to provide our clients with hallmark service.  It is that tradition of excellence that leads our clients back, bringing with them family and friends, time and again.

Over those years, we have guided clients through countless changing real estate climates.  Now, as then, we’re always anticipating market conditions and drawing from decades of experience to your benefit.  Simply put, we are dedicated to each client’s success and to setting the standard for excellence in the real estate industry.

I would be pleased to welcome you as a Terrie O’Connor client and part of our real estate family for years to come!

– Terrie O’Connor, Broker-Owner

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