I have a comprehensive and aggressive marketing plan that creates the maximum exposure for your home.
I will order (at my cost) a pre-title commitment to reduce your risk of any potential title problems at closing.
I will review with you ways to enhance your property for sale. This involves walking through each room of the home, as well as the exterior of the property and coming up with a detailed list of things that should be done in order to maximize the “salability” of the home. This will ensure you get the highest sales price in the least amount of time.
I will assist you with pricing your home, using current market statistics as well as a current competitive market analysis. This will help you strategically place your house in the current marketplace.
With your permission, I will place a very visible and professional For Sale sign at your home.
I will hire, schedule and coordinate a professional photographer to come and take several pictures of your home from every angle, to be used for the marketing flyers, brochures, websites and the multiple listing service.
I will place a professional, high-tech lock box on your property to increase showings and provide you with the security of knowing who has shown your home. The NWMLS Lock Box can be set to be used at only certain hours of the day and tracks every a NWMLS real estate agent enters your home, providing me electronically with their time of entry and contact information.
Shortly after your home is listed, I will hold a Broker’s Open House for all local real estate agents. This provides agents an opportunity to preview the home for their active buyers. I will also schedule with your permission Public Open Houses to allow prospective buyers an opportunity to tour and view the home.
With the great photos, I will create a high quality card stock weight brochure to showcase your home as a take-way for all prospective buyers when touring your home.
As needed, I will place “Silent Talker” cards highlighting your home’s special features in different areas of your house. These help bring attention to items we want the buyer to be aware of or features they may not easily notice during a first walk-through.
I will contact every agent who shows or previews your home. It is not only important to find out what buyers thought, but we also need to know what the Realtor’s thoughts are too.
At a minimum, I will contact you weekly to give you an update on the marketing of your home and how many previews and showings your home has had. I will also update you on changes that have happened in your home’s price range. You will know how many homes have been added to the market, which ones received offers, what homes have sold and what they sold for while yours is on the market.
I will mail a high quality, color postcard of your home to area neighbors within a half-mile of your home. Often, neighbors have friends or family wanting to move into their neighborhood. Your home might be ideal for their needs.
At the first sales meeting after we list your home, I will promote your property to every broker in my office and ask that they preview the property during the first Broker’s Open House.
Over 80% of home buyers use the internet to search for homes. When you’re ready to sell your home, you should expect your agent to have a plan to market your home online.
As a professional real estate broker, I have access to the most advanced online marketing systems in the industry and can post your home to websites like Google, Trulia, Yahoo Real Estate and Zillow. Your home listing will be presented in a beautiful ad with large photos designed to make it easy for buyers to find your home.
Using the professional photographs and marketing comments, I will create a unique website specific to your home that provides much more detail than a typical house flyer or brokerage website. This website will be available to be viewed by all prospective buyers. It will also be designed to be a mobile device friendly which is what many buyers use for home search in additional to or instead of a traditional website.
Using website analytics, I will be able to track exactly how many people have previewed the site, how many pages they previewed and what area people are from.
I will enter your home’s information on the Northwest MLS (Multiple Listing Service), giving your home exposure to 15,000+ Realtors in Western Washington. Inclusion on the MLS will also make your home visible to most all real estate search engines both local and national such as Zillow, Realtor.com as well ask all local brokerage websites.
Many NWMLS brokers have set up auto-searches for their client. This information is available to me via a reverse prospecting search. I will personally contact each agent that has a set-up search criteria matching the description of your home to make sure they are aware of the new listing.
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