Selling Your Home

Selling Your Home Home Selling Tips: What NOT to Do A few weeks ago, I gave some tips about how to sell your Inland Empire home during the fall. I talked about the importance of pricing your property appropriately, curb appeal, and adding natural elements to your home’s decor. Well, I figured I should probably also provide you with some home-selling tips highlighting what not […]
Buying a Home Fair Market Value Explained When selling a Southern California home, you need to come up with a list price. After all, list your home at too high of a price and it may sit on the market for a while. Price it too low and you leave money on the table that should have ended up in your pocket. […]
Selling Your Home Home-Selling Tips for the Fall Last weekend, we officially said “goodbye” to summer and “hello” to Fall. While late spring/early summer tends to bring out the most buyers in Southern California, that does not mean that you missed your chance to sell your home. Quite the contrary. Buyers look for homes pretty much all year round. Let me offer up […]
Selling Your Home The Lowdown on the Seller’s Disclosure When buying a Southern California home, you deal with a lot of paperwork. But selling a home comes with paperwork, too. One very important form you need to fill out will be the Seller’s Disclosure form. This form is required as part of California Civil Code 1102 within seven days of an accepted purchase agreement. […]
Selling Your Home Home Showings: Protecting Your Home and Yourself It is inevitable. At some point during your home sale journey, strangers will step foot inside. Rarely do home buyers buy a property sight unseen. They want to see it. They want to touch it. Ultimately, they want to picture themselves living there. And you want that for them as well. But you worry about […]
Selling Your Home How to Handle a Lowball Offer Unfortunately, the days of expecting multiple offers above the list price sit firmly in the rearview mirror for most Inland Empire home sellers. Even so, it feels pretty exciting to get an offer for your property. However, that excitement may quickly change to dread when you realize that you just received a lowball offer. But […]
Selling Your Home Can You Trust Those Online Value Estimators? You want to sell your Southern California home. First, you make any necessary repairs and clear up the clutter. Then, you hire a great REALTOR®. (Hint: contact me.) One of the things your REALTOR® will discuss with you is pricing. You may be tempted to look at those online value estimators to help determine your […]
Selling Your Home Clutter-Free Kid Spaces That Help Sell Homes Preparing your Southern California home to sell is only the first step. You must keep it “show ready” at all times while looking for a buyer. Your own bedroom may be relatively easy to keep clean. However, keeping up clutter-free kid spaces may pose a bigger problem. Here are a few tips to help you […]
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Selling Your Home For Sale by Owner Explained DIY has become quite an industry in the last several years. TV shows like “Fixer Upper”, “Rehab Addict”, and “This Old House” make you feel like you can tackle just about any renovation project. And a simple search on YouTube brings up videos on everything from how to clean out your dryer vent to how […]
Selling Your Home What Home Buyers Want Most in 2023 Virtual staging company Stuccco.com researched what today’s home buyers wanted to see most of all when looking for a new property. Yes, buyers like smart-home features and updated kitchens. But you might be surprised by what tied for first place: a laundry room and exterior lighting. If you plan on selling your Inland Empire this […]
Selling Your Home Outdoor Home Staging: What Not to Do You want to sell your Southern California home. So, you perform the repairs and updates necessary to make it marketable. Another part of the home selling process includes staging. Why? Because studies show that 85% of staged homes sold for up to 23% of the list price. They also sold faster than unstaged ones. While […]
Selling Your Home What Home Sellers Should Consider When Reviewing an Offer Selling a home can be nerve-wracking. One of the more stressful parts is waiting for an offer to come in. But even when you receive one, make sure you review it well before accepting. Here are a few of the things you need to look at before deciding whether or not to accept it. What […]
Selling Your Home Smart Home Features Today’s Buyers Want For the past couple of years, sellers ruled the Inland Empire real estate market. While areas like Riverside, Redlands, Rancho Cucamonga, and Yorba Linda still favor the seller to varying degrees, most of the Inland Empire has seen a shift to a more balanced market. That means that sellers may need to make some changes […]
Selling Your Home Home Selling Tips for a Changing Market Like much of the rest of the country, the Riverside real estate market really flourished over the last couple of years. We saw double-digit increases in home prices. Unfortunately for sellers, the market has cooled off a bit over the past few months. Multiple offers and same-day-as-listed sales appear to be thing of the past. […]
Selling Your Home An Amateur’s Guide to Taking the Best Listing Photos They say that a picture’s worth a thousand words. Well, 97% of people use the internet at some point during their search for a house. Therefore, you need to make sure that your listing photos really show off the best aspects of your Inland Empire home. Now, some real estate agents include professional photos as […]
Homeowners Kitchen Updates for the Budget-Conscious Home Seller We are smack dab in the middle of the holiday season right now. Fortunately, you can still decorate (with a bit of restraint) even when you try to sell your home during the holidays. However, you need to let your home shine through those decorations. Overwhelmingly, today’s buyers put an updated kitchen and bathrooms at […]
Selling Your Home Holiday Decorations for the Home Seller As September comes to an end, many people begin preparing for the holidays. Halloween is just six weeks away. Thanksgiving takes place three and a half weeks after that. Then, Christmas Eve falls exactly four weeks (to the day) after Thanksgiving. And, finally, we welcome the new year one week later. Many people love to […]
Selling Your Home How to Maximize Your Profit Without Spending a Dime For the past couple of years, sellers really benefited from the real estate market. In many instances, simply announcing a sale brought on a feeding frenzy of buyers. Many of those buyers paid well above asking simply to secure the sale. Unfortunately, the days of bidding wars and low to no effort by the seller […]
Homeowners How to Get Rid of Stinky Odors Before Listing Your Home When you decide to sell your Inland Empire home, you need to tackle a few chores first. Staging. Repairing. Cleaning. But one thing we sometimes overlook is how our house smells. Even if you are fastidious about cleaning your home, it may include some odors that you just grew used to while living there. Unfortunately, […]
Selling Your Home First-Time Home Seller Tips It is inevitable. At some point, most first-time home buyers eventually become first-time home sellers. The Inland Empire real estate market (much like the rest of the country) experienced one heck of a ride over the past few years, While we are still considered a seller’s market at this point, things are beginning to move […]