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When Is The Best Time To Sell Your Home Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 6:15am. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" When Is The Best Time To Sell Your Home? by Kurt Wannebo So a question I get a lot from sellers is Kurt, you've been in this business nearly 20 years. You've sold thousands of properties. When's the best time to sell my property? So my answers are always the same. And I have three of them. And the first answer is always when it's best for you. Why? Because I understand that there's a lot of life variables when it comes to actually selling your property and moving your family. Whether it's down the street or out of state, you have to spend time getting the property ready. There might be job variables that are in place. The school year might be something that affects your timing. So in the… Read Full Post »
What To Do If Your Home Doesn't Sell The First Time? Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 6:11am. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" What To Do If Your Home Doesn't Sell The First Time? by Kurt Wannebo What do you do if you tried to sell your home and it didn't sell? The market slowing down and I'm seeing properties all over the market come off the market and they don't know what to do. So I get the calls. So the first thing I want to walk you through are the three reasons why a property doesn't sell and make sure that you understand these things so that you can make improvements the next time. There are only three reasons why a property doesn't sell, and it could be one of them. Two of them. Or it could be all three of them. So it's important to understand each one. The first one's pretty obvious. Why is your pricing… Read Full Post »
3 Tips To Sell Your Home in a Slow Market Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 6:07am. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" 3 Tips To Sell Your Home in a Slow Market by Kurt Wannebo I just wanted to share three quick tips. If you're selling your home right now in a slower market. First tip: Offer a buyer rate down, meaning you as the seller, be willing to pay for the buyer's loan rate by down by 1.1 and a half points, maybe even two points, if that's a possibility. Put this in all of the marketing that you're doing for the property everywhere that it is. This is important. You have to understand that buyers right now are concerned and aren't taking action because they're scared of the interest rates. They're scared of the payments that they're going to have to be facing compared to last year. So by helping… Read Full Post »
3 Things You Should NOT Do When Preparing Your Home For Sale Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 6:03am. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" 3 Things You Should NOT Do When Preparing Your Home For Sale by Kurt Wannebo Today I'm going to talk about three things you absolutely should NOT do to prepare your home to go on the market. The first is automatically assume the whole outside of the house needs to be painted. So many times I meet with sellers and they already have it in their minds that we're going on the market. So we assume we have to paint the whole exterior of the house costing tens of thousands of dollars. And the reality is sometimes these homes are in fine condition and don't need to be painted at all. Other times, I'll admit, I run into homes and the front of the house isn't looking so great. But in those… Read Full Post »
3 Things You MUST Do When Preparing Your Home For Sale Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 5:59am. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" 3 Things You MUST Do When Preparing Your Home For Sale by Kurt Wannebo I'm going to talk about three things you absolutely should do. If you're if you're going to be putting your home on the market. The first is making sure you change out all the air filters and clean off the intake grates. Why? A lot of people and a lot of buyers are sensitive to allergens. And one of the things they do is they look up and see the air filter. And if they look up and see a dirty, old crusty air filter, they assume first we got to do an entire clean out of the duct system, costing thousands of dollars in to this just may not be a perfect home for our children or our family because we're sensitive to these… Read Full Post »
3 Things to Know If Your Home Is On The Market Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 5:49am. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" 3 Reasons To NOT Sell In a Down Market by Kurt Wannebo What to know if you're trying to sell your home right now in today's difficult market? There's three critical pieces of information that you should be getting each and every week. The first, you should know and understand all of your competition, all of the properties that you're competing with. Anything within a half to a mile away from your property with similar square footage and pricing, anywhere from 25 to 30% above and below. From there you want to understand and actually go to these properties. You want to walk each and every one of them. You want to understand and see what the differences are, what things do they have… Read Full Post »
3 Reasons to Sell in a Down Market Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 5:45am. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" 3 Reasons to Sell in a Down Market by Kurt Wannebo So I'm going to give you three reasons as to why you should sell in a down market. So the first reason is: Whenever you're considering selling your home and there's a run up on the market, you want to sell as close to that peak as possible. Now, our markets changed and we saw the peak come and go six months ago, but that doesn't mean we've reached the bottom and it could be years before we get back to that pricing. So do yourself a favor and try to sell as close to the peak as possible. Second reason. Are you already ahead? I talk to Sellers every day, and some of them in today's market say, oh my gosh, my house was worth this six months… Read Full Post »
3 Reasons to NOT Sell in a Down Market Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 5:40am. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" 3 Reasons To NOT Sell In a Down Market by Kurt Wannebo Let's talk about three reasons not to sell your property in a down market. The first is if you can stay there and be happy for the next three, five, seven, maybe ten years, then why sell now in a down market? It may take several years for this market to recover and or get to the pricing that we saw six months ago. So if you're happy there, stay there, make adjustments to the property if you need to. The next reason you shouldn't sell is if you have the ability to maybe rent out your current property and positive cash flow. If you don't need all that equity that you have in the property and can go buy something else or go somewhere… Read Full Post »
3 Reasons To NOT Buy In a Down Market Monday, January 16th, 2023 at 12:22pm. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" 3 Reasons To NOT Buy In a Down Market by Kurt Wannebo Let's talk about three reasons why you should NOT buy a property in a down market. First, if you're considering buying a property for a short period of time, meaning two years or less, it may not be ideal because the market may go down and it would be worth less than what you paid for it. So don't consider anything short term in a down market. The next thing or the next reason you shouldn't buy is if you already own a property and you relatively like your property, it's just one or two things that are missing that you were considering buying another and then maybe stay there and fix yours up. I run into people who say, Well, we want… Read Full Post »