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GETTING YOUR HOME READY FOR SALE
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General Resources
Learning About Title Insurance Costs: EasyTitleQuote.com
Preparing your home for sale: Ehow.com.
Mold information: See the EPA Web site.
Making repairs yourself: Try Ask the Builder.
Home warranties: See the Home Warranty page.
FREE E-Book on Strategies for Selling a Home: www.TopSellingSystems.com
Angie's list: To find help with cleaning, repairs, remodeling, staging, or even selecting a real estate agent, one good place to start is Angie’s list. There is a small fee to join, but once you do you have access to a list of professionals recommended and rated by other consumers in your city.
Advice on difficult cleaning tasks: Try Heloise Household Helpline.
Finding a great listing agent: Use AgentMatch.com to search for agents by commission, experience, location, and marketing services offered.
Home Staging: "Home Staging is a merging of interior design elements with marketing strategies to maximize the impact your home makes on buyers."
J. Hughes Ambiance-Staging
Resources for finding a Home Stager In your area:
Interior Redesign Industry Specialists
Home Inspection Services
Pillar To Post (www.pillartopost.com), North America's largest home inspection service and #1 ranked company in the home inspection category by Entrepreneur Magazine for the 5th subsequent year, knows that every person involved in a residential real estate transaction can benefit from a professional home inspection. By having the home inspected before it is listed, sellers can avoid unexpected surprises during negotiations and make the home more attractive to buyers by attending to necessary repairs.
Zillow Resources
To see how remodeling projects pay off, check Zillow's Home Improvement Chart.
The My Estimator tool allows users to enter various improvements to see how it affects a home's valuation. Sellers can then make the improvements and publish the new valuation on Zillow, plus explain why the valuation changed.
More key Zillow resources for sellers are laid out here.
Directory of Real Estate Professionals
FINDING, CHOOSING, AND WORKING WITH YOUR AGENT
General Resources
USAA, a large insurance and financial-services company, is an educational foundation, with a form for interviewing real estate agents.
Ehow.com has several introductory articles on selling your home.
Effective for maximizing sales price, there are several sites which have information on selling your own home.
Listing your Home outside of the MLS
Sometimes exposing your house in multiple websites will maximize exposure and provide you with a possibilty of selling your house quicker. Below are some Free listing ideas, especially if you are selling by owner:
Zillow.com
Lowballoffers.com
www.elterre.com English/spanish site
SETTING THE PRICE OF YOUR HOME
General Resources
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is a U.S. Government site dedicated to helping consumers in all aspects of home ownership.
The Appraisal Institute is an international membership association for real estate professionals, which contains information for consumers.
The Appraisal Foundation is a not-for-profit educational organization authorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standards and appraiser qualifications.
The National Association of Independent Fee Appraisers is an association of professional real estate appraisers, which also contains information for consumers.
American Society of Appraisers is an international society of professional valuers that appraises real estate and other disciplines such as gems and jewelry, businesses, and more.
AppraiserUSA.com offers a directory where you can locate appraisers in any state.
Appraisers dot com is a national real estate appraiser referral service.
Zillow Resources
Enter an address and get a Zestimate to use as a starting point for estimating the value of most homes in the U.S.
My Estimator is a free tool anyone can use to create their own, personal estimate on a home.
NEGOTIATING
General Resources
These two federally-maintained Web sites offer helpful consumer information, including sample forms showing line-by-line the information in a contract:
The Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Federal Citizen Information Center
Real Estate Professionals
Real estate agents: Experienced agents have the paperwork needed for every part of the transaction in your locale. If you want to save some money, find an agent who will agree to take on just negotiating and closing for a fee.
Real estate attorneys: A real estate attorney can help with negotiating offers and contracts. An attorney will also know which forms you need to use in your community.
In addition, check with a real estate attorney to make sure there aren’t other forms needed to conform with local laws.
Some attorneys offer flat-fee legal services to help sellers through the legal niceties of selling their home.
You can look up real estate attorneys on Avvo, a service that rates and profiles all lawyers in a growing number of states. You can also post real estate questions on Avvo and get free answers from attorneys.
HELP WITH CLOSING
General Resources
The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development site has information for home sellers, including some on settlement costs. The buyer’s site has a sample form showing what a hypothetical seller and buyer pay at closing.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency site has a complete guide to radon, including testing and mitigation.
The Internal Revenue Service has an online library of publications. See “ Selling Your Home,” IRS Publication 523, a 32-page booklet that can be read online, printed, or ordered by mail. It contains helpful tax and record-keeping information.
The American Land Title Association Web site has a consumer section with information on title insurance, an explanation of the closing process, and an explanation of the HUD-1 settlement form.
Real Estate Professionals
A candid home inspector offers a very straightforward explanation of his profession.
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