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Seller's Guide: Ten Steps to Selling Your Home

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Selling your home can be an exciting and positive experience. Our goal is to save your time, finances, and stress by being steps ahead of potential roadblocks in your path to success. Check out this free Seller's Guide to learn more about the steps to sell a home and how John P. Sharp's real estate services can help you achieve success. 

10 Steps to Sell a Home

Step 1: Preview Your Home

Step 1: Preview Your Home

Step 1: Preview Your Home

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Find a great real estate broker like John P. Sharp and schedule a walk-through of your home to determine selling points, areas for improvement, and the best listing price range. After reviewing a detailed marketing plan and timeline, agree to sell your home.

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Step 2: Prepare Your Home

Step 1: Preview Your Home

Step 1: Preview Your Home

A person is renovating their home by putting tiles on a wall.

Repair, replace, or update your home in ways that increase your home's value. This includes landscaping and exterior painting to increase your property's curb appeal.  Use professional photography to prepare marketing materials. 

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Step 3: List Your Home

Step 1: Preview Your Home

Step 3: List Your Home

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Have a game plan for showing the home privately and through open houses.  Employ online marketing strategies to expose your well-priced home to willing and able buyers. Your agent will keep track of all serious buyers through the offer review date.

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Step 4: Receive Offers

Step 5: Negotiate and Accept Best Offer

Step 3: List Your Home

A couple is looking at a tablet to see if their offer on a home was accepted.  They are excited.

Whether we're reviewing offers as they come in or we're reviewing all of them on a review date, your agent will present offers fairly and help you come to the best decision on which one you'll accept. 

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Step 5: Negotiate and Accept Best Offer

Step 5: Negotiate and Accept Best Offer

Step 5: Negotiate and Accept Best Offer

People are sitting around a desk, shaking hands and looking at a tablet. They have just made a deal.

When you have selected the best offer, your agent will negotiate with the buyers to ensure the deal is a win-win situation that will close smoothly and successfully.  Our goal is to maximize your investment. 

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Step 6: Satisfy Contingencies

Step 5: Negotiate and Accept Best Offer

Step 5: Negotiate and Accept Best Offer

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The buyers may need to sell their home before moving forward in purchasing your home.  There are other contingencies, like home inspections, home insurance, and potential HOA restrictions to disclose. 

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Step 7: Review Title Report

Step 8: Complete Financing and Appraisal

Step 8: Complete Financing and Appraisal

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While a title review is often an inoculate process, there can be items on the title which may prevent a successful sale if not addressed appropriately. 

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Step 8: Complete Financing and Appraisal

Step 8: Complete Financing and Appraisal

Step 8: Complete Financing and Appraisal

A calculator, mini-house, and cash are laying atop paperwork for purchasing a property.

Depending on the buyer's financing, the lender will need to finalize their loan.  This approval may likely be dependent upon a successful appraisal. 

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Step 9: Final Escrow Signing

Step 8: Complete Financing and Appraisal

Step 9: Final Escrow Signing

A real estate agent holds a pen over important paperwork involving the purchase of a new home.

Your agent will be there to review all the required documents to be signed by the buyer and seller at the time of escrow.  Make sure you understand everything before you sign. 

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Step 10: Closing Day

Schedule an Initial Consultation

Step 9: Final Escrow Signing

A real estate agent is handing over the key to a house to a new couple who just bought the home.

After a final walk-through, all that is needed is to hand over the keys and enjoy the successful sale of your home.  Don't forget to give your agent a stellar review!

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Purchasing Your New Home

Schedule an Initial Consultation

Schedule an Initial Consultation

You might need to buy a new home to live in either before, during, or after the sale of your current home.  Learn more about the homebuying process with our homebuying guide. 

Purchasing Guide

Schedule an Initial Consultation

Schedule an Initial Consultation

Schedule an Initial Consultation

Ready to sell your home?  Schedule an initial consultation with John P. Sharp today.  Let's discuss your real estate goals and how we can help you achieve them. 

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