Selling Your Home
Mission Statement: This desktop space provides general information on ways to
enhance your home for selling purposes.
Task Definition: To seek inexpensive effective ways to sell your home.
-How are you going to advertise my home? My husband and I would like to try to sell our house by owner for
three months or so until we rely on a realtor. -How can I prepare to show my home?There are a number of repairs we need to fix before we sell. -How much time and money am I willing toinvest in fixing up my home?By our calculations, it looks like we can spend $2,500.00 to fix up the
house. -How do I determine the right sales pricefor my home?We aren’t really sure…. But we plan on looking around the county to
see what houses are selling for.-Do I understand all the aspects of a realestate transaction, appraisal, titleinsurance, inspections, liens, deeds,easements and home warranties?
I do not understand all the real estate jargon.
Information Seeking Strategies
- Materials (books, videos, DVDs, manuals, hand-books, etc)
Plan on visiting the EVPL
- Websites
- Banking ProfessionalsContact our bank rep. Marge Shelhouse
- Visual Aids (virtual tours and open house tours)
- Family and Friend advice
Use of Information- Cost effective ways to fix
up your home
- Free advice
- 24/7 access to most information (websites, virtual tours, advice)
- Better your chances of selling your home faster and for a greater profit
Synthesis- Instructional guidance combined with a
seller’s motivation can get a house ready for the market.
- Once a to-do list is created and your mission is carried out, fixing up a house can be a rewarding project.
To-Do List- Fix front door screen- Fix step that the dog chewed on- Paint laundry room- Paint bedrooms- Light fixtures for bedrooms- Rent a storage unit and move some of the
furniture out of the house- Replace dead shrub out front- Caulk around the tub in the bathroom- Clean the house- Power spray the outside siding- Pull weeds in flower beds
- Invite friends and family members to tour your home and look for further improvements.
- Answer the questions found on the websites to see if you have dotted all your i’s and crossed all your t’s.
- Check your financial situation to see if you should upgrade any major problem areas.
- Hire an inspector to determine further needs
- Review the simple but meaningful buyer’s needs: cleanliness and curb appeal.
Evaluation
Use- Apply the useful knowledge found in
materials- Practice giving tours of your home with
friends and family members-Practice buyer/seller conversations (know
the square footage, the year of a new roof, installation of windows, taxes, subdivision guidelines, etc)
- Manage information related to your home (selling/buying costs of surrounding homes for sale, mortgage loan rates, blueprints, estimates of monthly bills, etc)
- Familiarize yourself with correct terminologies and social demeanors needed when introducing your home.
Big 6 Model
Desktop Space by
Maureen Barton