The Sequim Home Selling Process: The Seller Timeline

The home selling process is a bit complex, but I’ve created a seller timeline that shows the entire process from beginning to end. Each step has its own sub-timelines, and depending on your transaction, you can get some bunny trails or end up taking a major off-ramp on your way to closing. I have written

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3D Virtual Tours

3D virtual tours are important. In the last few years alone we have entered an entirely new era in the real estate industry. I started writing about vast new changes in consumer preferences in the first edition of my book, The New World of Marketing for Real Estate Agents, in 2010 and how Realtors would

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Sequim Broker Reaches Out to Sellers

This Sequim broker is reaching out to homeowners to find listings for buyers. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that our home inventory in the MLS is very low, and buyers are having a hard time finding the ideal home.  Sequim Broker Marketing System The ideal home most retirees are

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Failed Real Estate Advertising to Sell Your Home

Real estate advertising is obviously an important subject when it comes to selling your home, and that is true wherever you home is located in the United States. Every market is unique to some extent, and advertising that might work in one market may not work so well in another market, but there is one

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How to Sell My Home

Why an article on “How to Sell My Home“? Because many retirees moving to Sequim, Washington need to sell their home first, whether that is in California, Colorado, Texas, Alaska, Hawaii, Florida, Arizona, Portland, or anywhere in the U.S. Many will use the Internet to research “How to Sell My Home” and will do their

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How Do I Sell My Home? Free Book for Sellers in Sequim

How do I sell my home? Sequim homeowners have been asking this question. I’m about to do something I’ve never done before. I’m going to give this book away to Sequim homeowners who are thinking about selling their homes. This is a 271 page paperback book written specifically to homeowners who want the truth about

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How to Sell Your Home

Knowing how to sell your home is the key to getting the biggest check at the closing table, and it is also the key to selling your home as quickly as possible with the least amount of stress. Trust me, that first sentence has all the components to a successful sale, but you really need to

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Homeowners Seminar in Sequim

A homeowners seminar is needed in Sequim. Many homeowners are frustrated because they have not been having a good experience with their listing agent. The real estate business has changed dramatically, and the vast majority of today’s brokers are operating out of a 20 or 30 year old business model. Marketing a home is not what

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How to Sell a Home Today in the Internet Age

How to Sell a Home today is a dramatically different process than it used to be, especially in this Internet age. If you are going to sell your home in California, Colorado, Florida, Alaska, or wherever you are now, so that you can buy a home in Sequim, be very cautious about how you go about

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Real Estate Seminar for Homeowners

iRealty is pleased to announce a Sequim Real Estate Seminar for homeowners. This will be an important seminar for anyone who wants to sell their home, because the real estate industry has changed dramatically, and what worked years ago to sell a home no longer works today. The seminar is for Sequim homeowners, and attendees

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Traditional Brokers Struggling

Have you worked with traditional brokers in recent years? How are traditional brokers doing today? In 2010 in Chuck Marunde’s book, The New World of Marketing for Real Estate Agents, he wrote, “The real estate industry is in the midst of extraordinary change. There’s no doubt about that . . . The traditional bricks-and-mortar real estate brokerage is hemorrhaging, and

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How Long Does it Take to Sell a Home in Sequim?

A client asked me how long it would take to sell a home in Sequim if they decide Sequim is not where they want to live. I’ve never had a client ask this question. I should add that in 20 years I’ve never heard of a single person who moved here to retire and then decided right

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Home Improvements That Hurt Resale

Home improvements can help or hurt the sale of a home. When you are buying a home and when you make some home improvements, your first thought is probably not, “is this home sellable?” I believe it should be one of your considerations, because someday you will need to sell. That time may be many

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How to Coordinate Selling a Home and Buying a Home At The Same Time

Selling a home and buying a home at the same time is no small challenge, and there are many details to coordinate. Many clients have asked me, “What is the best way to handle selling a home back in (Colorado, California, Oregon, or Florida, etc.) and buying a home in Sequim?” How do you synchronize the

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How to Sell My Home from an Industry Insider

“How to sell my home” is an important question if you want to sell your California or Colorado or Texas home prior to buying a home in Sequim. Maybe you’re in a hot market, and your home will sell the first day with offers above the listing price, or maybe you’re in a normal market

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How to Find a Listing Agent

How do you find a listing agent who can help you get your home sold? The following is taken from a chapter in The 7 Myths of Selling Your Home. The book includes many insider secrets that homeowners have never thought about, and this topic on what sellers need in a listing agent is very likely

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Sequim Real Estate Inventory

The real estate inventory of active listings in the northwest has reached a crisis point for buyers. Some local brokers in Sequim and Port Angeles are saying that the real estate inventory of nice homes for buyers is at the lowest seen in many years. I talked with a broker from Olympia, Washington yesterday, and

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Emotional Seller Kills Deal

An emotional seller can kill your purchase. Happens all the time. An emotional seller is a homeowner who just cannot set aside their personal emotional connection with their home. They will attribute value to a home based on their own memories and on how much they have invested emotionally in their home over the years.

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How to Sell a Home and Why Homeowners Are So Frustrated

Have you been dealing with how to sell a home?  I’ve learned that people who have had a long successful professional career in a field other than real estate may not know how to sell a home in this market.   I want to share three keys I’ve learned in 37 years in real estate

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What Does Obama’s Re-election Mean For Real Estate?

Today I want to look at what Obama’s re-election means for real estate?  Now that President Obama has won his re-election bid for the presidency, what does this mean for you as a buyer or seller?  I had a gentleman recently express an interest in a home, but he said he wanted to wait until

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