You want to sell your Warner Robins house, and you want to get top dollar.
Excellent!
But your asking, “What do I need to do to sell my house in Warner Robins for top dollar”?
Here are some tips on how to get your home ready to sell if you’re looking for top dollar that the market will bear:
*NOTE: These instructions are if you’re looking to get full market value for selling your house. However, if you don’t want to do the things below… or don’t have the time or money to do the things below… you can still sell your Warner Robins house fast for a fair value in a win-win sale that’ll save you time and expense.
1) Clean, clean and clean. Even vacant houses get dusty and dirty, so keep it up! Nothing short of gleaming perfection will impress buyers. If you’re not a total clean freak, hire someone who is to help you out until the house sells.
If you’re a slob, consider finding somewhere else to live while you show your house. Messy houses will NOT sell for full price. Maybe you can bribe your cleanest friend to trade houses with you? Seriously, keeping everything immaculate really helps buyers feel comfortable in your space. Nothing stops people faster from buying your house than feeling grossed out. Cleaning EVERYTHING in the house will show attention to detail. Buyers notice!
2) Cultivate a cohesive, neutral style. You don’t have to paint everything off-white. In fact, some subtle neutral earth tone colors can really help change the perception of spaces – for example, a soft yellow will help brighten up a dark kitchen, while a deep dark blue or green will help a bright bedroom to feel like a calm place to sleep (but be careful, dark colors will also make rooms feel small and light colors make a small room feel bigger. Pick colors for selling your house wisely).
Spend the money to get high-quality paint and professional help. Subconsciously people will pay more money for a property with just the right colors and very neat lines – it makes the home feel better built, even though it’s just paint. Right now, Shades of gray (pardon the pun) are what buyers are looking for.
Optical illusions are real, and psychologists study this stuff. Don’t believe me? Look it up. And don’t neglect the outside by just doing the inside, or anything else that’s unbalanced. If you can’t paint the outside of the house you are selling, pressure wash it with plain water or a mild soap…. NO BLEACH. It will help the overall look.
3) Fix or replace anything that’s broken. Yeah, it might feel like a waste of money to spend an extra couple hundred bucks on a dishwasher that someone else might just pull out and replace again. But really, quite a few buyers will get a home inspection and use the opportunity to negotiate with you. As the seller, you’ll often end up paying more if you try to hide neglected maintenance from the purchaser – and of course you don’t want to be guilty of fraud.
Make sure you stay in compliance with all the laws.
It’s often a good use of money to hire a home inspector to come through before you put the property on the market. If you ask in advance, they’ll often charge you a tiny rate to come back after you’ve done a bunch of minor repairs and deliver you a clean bill of health. Prospective buyers love to see an independent report on the condition of the house – it makes them feel very comfortable with the purchase.
4) Make only necessary improvements. The biggest mistake people make when getting their house ready to sell is over-improving. They often spend too much money on customized frills that can’t be recovered in the sale.
Paint is about the only safe investment – it’s easy to overspend on almost everything else, and it’s easy to get ripped off by unscrupulous contractors.
It’s important to know what improvements will produce a return on investment to avoid wasting money.
5) Get expert opinions. You should definitely find at least a few decent real estate brokers who will help you price your property, but be honest with them. If you’re going to market the property on your own, don’t make enemies by lying about your intentions. Great brokers are rare, but they make more money for their clients than they earn.
6) Have a really great marketing plan. Again, great brokers earn their value by doing this work and spreading the advertising expenses across many clients. It’s pretty expensive and time-consuming to start from scratch on your own, but if you’re already a marketing expert you’re ahead of the pack.
If you’re not, spend the time listening to what the best brokers do to sell houses in Warner Robins – just to educate yourself on the options.
7) Get a cash offer. We buy houses all over the Warner Robins area, and we do all the work so you don’t have to deal with any of this stuff. The benefit in selling your house for top dollar here is there is no work to do and the house gets sold fast. We offer top dollar for the condition the house is currently in.
8) Offer Owner Financing. If you really want to sell your Warner Robins house for top dollar, one option that many people don’t think about is doing your own financing. Most people think the only way to sell a house fast is to price it low enough to get a buyer with bank financing to come buy the house. What if you are the bank. You step into the banks shoes and make the top dollar for your house by including financing. Get your asking price and some interest because your buyer does not need a bank loan. Many more home buyers will choose your house. You already have the financing taken care of. Watch this.
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Don’t Want To Do The Things Above Yourself? But Still Want To Sell Your Warner Robins Georgia House Fast?
While everyone wants to get as much as they possibly can from their house sale… not everyone can do the things or wants to do the things required to sell it at full retail value to an end buyer.
Doing the repairs, cleaning the property up, upgrading the property, marketing the property… those all take money and can take lots of time.
If you have the funds to do these things... AND you can wait the 3-6 months it takes to sell houses in this market… then you’ll be better off financially to do those things then list it on the MLS (the main property listing service that real estate agents use).
If you don’t have the funds to do these things... AND can’t wait months to sell your house… then you may be a perfect fit for our local Warner Robins house buying service. You’ll submit basic info about your house over here on our website, we’ll evaluate your house, we’ll make you a fair all-cash offer on your house, and you can decide if it’s a fit for you.
Then we can close FAST (often times within 7 days) if you need us to.
Take a look at what we’ll pay you not to do anything versus the time, expense and hassle involved with doing it on your own.
So if you’re still asking “what do I need to do to sell my house in Warner Robins“… now you have 2 solid options.
Either…
- Fix the property up and get it all nice and ready with the steps above to sell it at top dollar
- Let us do all of the work and we’ll make you a cash offer on your house in AS-IS condition. This saves you time, money, and gets the hassle off of your hands.
If you need to sell a property near Warner Robins, we can help you.
We buy properties like yours from people who need to sell fast.