This guide explains our process to sell your home. Before reading this guide, it may be helpful to read my guides on How To Sell A House In Indiana, or How To Sell A House In Illinois.
We usaully start this step with a home sale consultation which can be in person or often via a Zoom video call. At the home sale consultation we:
At the listing consulation I walk through your home and prepare a list of recommended work (called a “punchlist”) to complete before listing your home on the market. Some houses need no work, and some houses need much work. To create a pre-listing punchlist I use my smartphone and Google Docs to provide a list of items with a photo to make it easy to follow. View a pre-listing punchlist for a house we sold in Bolingbrook IL.
After any pre-listing repairs are completed, its now time to get the house ready for photography. The main things to do to prepare for the photo shoot are: decluttering, cleaning, clean up landscaping and mow the lawn, open all the shades, turn off all the fans, turn on all the lights. Our photographer will help get each photo ready by moving furniture and things around in your home to make each photo look the best.
You as the seller, of course, have the final say on what price we list your house at. Its my job as your agent to provide you the market data to make an informed decision. I do this by completing a Comparative Market Analysis (which we call a “CMA”), which is a detailed comparasion of your home, to similiar homes that have recently sold. My CMA process is nearly identical to what an appraiser will do to determine the value of your home.
See an example of one of my Comparative Market Analysis reports for a home in Hobart Indiana.
Each state has standardized forms for selling a home. The different paperwork includes:
We are partnered with a photo editor and a video editor that takes the photos and videos and makes them into something pretty amazing. Our photos are “bracketed” photos, meaning each photo is actually 7 photos of the same picture with different white balance so that the editor can combine them into one super photo (which is how you can see through windows in the listing photos.). The editors have a long checklist of other tuchups and edits they complete.
This is when our 87 point marketing plan kicks into high gear! Some highlights of our marketing plan include:
We are partnered with a photo editor and a video editor that takes the photos and videos and makes them into something pretty amazing. Our photos are “bracketed” photos, meaning each photo is actually 7 photos of the same picture with different white balance so that the editor can combine them into one super photo (which is how you can see through windows in the listing photos.). The editors have a long checklist of other tuchups and edits they complete.
We are partnered with a photo editor and a video editor that takes the photos and videos and makes them into something pretty amazing. Our photos are “bracketed” photos, meaning each photo is actually 7 photos of the same picture with different white balance so that the editor can combine them into one super photo (which is how you can see through windows in the listing photos.). The editors have a long checklist of other tuchups and edits they complete.
We are partnered with a photo editor and a video editor that takes the photos and videos and makes them into something pretty amazing. Our photos are “bracketed” photos, meaning each photo is actually 7 photos of the same picture with different white balance so that the editor can combine them into one super photo (which is how you can see through windows in the listing photos.). The editors have a long checklist of other tuchups and edits they complete.
The time from accepting an offer to the closing is called “escrow.” We are partnered with a photo editor and a video editor that takes the photos and videos and makes them into something pretty amazing. Our photos are “bracketed” photos, meaning each photo is actually 7 photos of the same picture with different white balance so that the editor can combine them into one super photo (which is how you can see through windows in the listing photos.). The editors have a long checklist of other tuchups and edits they complete.
Step 9 – Escrow Process (The time for accepting an offer to closing)
Once an offer is accepted, the period of time until closing is most often called “in escrow” or “under contract.” Many things happen in this period of time, including:
Step 10 – Closing
The title company
