How to Sell Your Home

How to Sell Your Home: 7 Myths Chapter 1 (Part 2 of 3) The Open House

The Open House and How to Sell Your Home: This the second of 3 installments of Chapter 1 of my book, The Seven Myths of Selling Your Home. I admit this is one of my longer blog articles, but I wanted to keep this subject matter together so your reading of it would flow. If

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How to Sell Your Home: 7 Myths Chapter 1 (Part 1 of 3)

How to Sell Your Home: This the first of 3 installments of Chapter 1 of my book, The Seven Myths of Selling Your Home. I admit this is one of my longest blog articles, but I wanted to keep this subject matter together so your reading of it would flow. If this is relevant for

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How to Sell Your Home: 7 Myths Part 5

Introduction to 5 Installments: Selling your home is no small matter, and since I’ve been in the real estate business going back four decades and transitioned from traditional marketing to powerful Internet marketing technologies, I’ve seen a lot of changes. While consumers are quite aware of the changes in how they search for homes and

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How to Sell Your Home: 7 Myths Part 4

Introduction to 5 Installments: Selling your home is no small matter, and since I’ve been in the real estate business going back four decades and transitioned from traditional marketing to powerful Internet marketing technologies, I’ve seen a lot of changes. While consumers are quite aware of the changes in how they search for homes and

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How to Sell Your Home: 7 Myths Part 3

Introduction to 5 Installments: Selling your home is no small matter, and since I’ve been in the real estate business going back four decades and transitioned from traditional marketing to powerful Internet marketing technologies, I’ve seen a lot of changes. While consumers are quite aware of the changes in how they search for homes and

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How to Sell Your Home: 7 Myths Part 2

Introduction to 5 Installments: Selling your home is no small matter, and since I’ve been in the real estate business going back four decades and transitioned from traditional marketing to powerful Internet marketing technologies, I’ve seen a lot of changes. While consumers are quite aware of the changes in how they search for homes and

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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 to Sell My Home and 7 Myths of Selling a Home

How to sell my home is a question that many homeowners have been asking. The challenge for a homeowner without hands on experience within the real estate industry is that there are many myths about selling homes, and real estate professionals propagate some of these myths. If you plan to sell your home, this is

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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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Never Let an Offer Die

Never let an offer die is one of my rules as a real estate broker.  Whether I am making an offer on behalf of a buyer, or receiving an offer from another real estate agent on a listing, I never let an offer die.  This is incredibly important for you as a buyer or as

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How Long Does It Take to Sell a Home in Sequim and Port Angeles?

How long does it take to sell a home in Sequim and Port Angeles?  The average days on market (aka DOM) for homes sold is the best indicator of how long it takes to sell a home.  Clearly the days on market will vary in different price ranges.  I’ve collected data for homes sold in

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Luck is Not a Good Strategy

Believe it or not some homeowners are hoping that luck will sell their homes.  But luck is not a good strategy.  Let me explain why I say that.  There are several elements to guessing, or hoping, or relying on a shot in the dark to sell a home.  Here are some of the common ones

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How to Sell Your Home for More

What if you could sell your home for more in this recession?  Is there a way to sell your home and substantially increase your net proceeds?  Yes there is if you own your home free and clear.  Not very many people own their home free and clear of any mortgage today, but for those who

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Majority of Sellers Largely Unfamiliar With How to Sell a Home

How to sell a home is one of the most important “how to’s” of the day.  Most sellers would readily acknowledge that they are not experts in marketing and selling a home in today’s economy. As a result, sellers do the best they can by doing some reading, by talking to people they know, and

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How Not to Sell a Home: Increase the Price

Recently I was out showing homes to a wonderful couple who are retiring to Sequim, one of the 10 Best Places to Retire in the U.S., according to numerous magazine articles.  One of the homes that made it through our filter of searching for the ideal home in the Sequim MLS and the Port Angeles

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Selling Your Home Fast, Slow, or Never

Today we entertain another question from our Sequim and Port Angeles readers in our continuing series of Q&A with retired real estate attorney, author, and now real estate broker Chuck Marunde.   Chuck is the Broker of Sequim & Port Angeles Real Estate, LLC. Question:   Does it matter who I list my home with?

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You Can Put Lipstick on a Slow Market

You can put lipstick on a slow real estate market, but it’s still a slow market.   You can lower the price on your home to sell it quickly, but it’s still a slow market.   Lowering the price may not be the powerful incentive it would be in a normal market. You can stage

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