Helping You Sell Your Home:

 

Our Client Success Process

 

 

  • Relationship Development
    • Getting to know each other
    • Establishing communications & ‘hiring’ an agent
    • Listening - your objectives and concerns in selling your home
    • How Washington real estate law and current transaction practices work for you

 

  • Market Familiarization and Buyer Scenarios
    • Market conditions and seasonal trends
    • How buyers work, and role of buyer’s agent
    • History of comparable sales
    • Competitive market value and competitive properties on the market
    • Scenarios of likely buyers:
      • who they are
      • what they are looking for
      • how they will view your property

 

  • Home Listing and Marketing
    • The Multiple Listing Service - NWMLS, the keybox
    • Writing the listing – attracting buyer’s agents
    • Seller’s disclosure statement
    • Mechanical systems warranty option - American Home Shield
    • Fix-up, lighten up, staging - how we  can help
    • Pricing strategies:
      • projecting value or image
      • ready buyers vs days-on-market
      • price adjustments
    • Supplemental marketing – ads, open houses, mailings, Internet
    • Contracts, forms and contingencies - risk mitigation
    • Closing date & possession date

 

  • Negotiation Assistance
    • Offer, evaluation and counter-offer - getting to mutual acceptance
    • Earnest money and financing verification
    • Inspection contingency, STI, required corrections, and right-to-repair

 

  • Transaction Management
    • Timelines & critical dates, counting days 
    • Escrow, financing & title
    • Release of contingencies
    • Closing, possession & keys