Sellers Guide
A simplified layout to selling a home. Click on any of the links or blog posts below for further information. Check back frequently as more information is gathered.
Hiring your Agent
- How to choose an agent
- How to recognize an exceptional Real Estate agent
- Is a discounted commission worth it?
- What happens behind the scene?
Getting your home ready to list
- Staging and Removing the Emotions
- Decluttering
- Staging your home to sell
- 10 tips to sell it fast
- How we market the home and why Listing Photos are SO important
- What to expect from showings
- Craziest reasons we’ve heard as to why the buyer won’t make the offer
- Which repairs may impact value
- Small improvements that could give you a bigger ROI
Receiving an offer
- How to compare multiple offers
- Qualifying the buyer/lender/agent
- Switch and Bait Financing
Going under contract – accepted offer
- Understanding the timeframes
- Understanding contractual obligations – Timeframes
- Breach of Contract? Not necessarily
Opening escrow
- Understanding Escrow
- Spouse not on Title?
The inspection Period
- What to expect from the Inspection
- The Sellers Disclosures
- The Claims History Report
- What are the buyers responsibilities
- What are the sellers responsibilities
- What are the agents responsibilities
- Types of inspections
- Outside the box thinking
- Common Inspection issues
- Understanding the BINSR
- Typical repairs
- What does “As-Is” mean?
Making repairs
- Why you should agree to repairs
- How to make repairs
- Don’t get sued after close
- Repairs you did in the last 12 months
- Legalities of remodeling
The Appraisal
- How to prepare and what to expect
The Finance Contingency
- What could go wrong
- Waiving the Appraisal Contingency
The Final Walk Through
Signing the docs
Closing/Recordation
- When do you have to be out?
- Should you consider a post possession or Lease Back?
Read the latest Seller articles, from the blog.
Sellers Post Possession Vs Lease Back
Frequently sellers are finding themselves in a difficult situation when they go to sell their home. The balancing act of buyer and selling is like the age old dilemma… which came first? The buy or the sell? (You thought the question would be more 'fowl', didn't you?)...
Switch Bait Financing Issues
We're in a competitive market right now and buyers are getting desperate. They're up against multiple offers, with variant levels of risky conditions. Buyers waiving contingencies Buyers making earnest money non-refundable Buyers are paying cash more than ever Buyers...
Hard Money Loans are Not the Same as Cash
You're in a competitive market and you want to make a strong offer. You're tired of being beat out by these cash investors. It's understandable… but what can you do? Some buyers have looking into hard money loans, as an option to avoid pitfalls in financing, like...
Investors and Wholesalers
Arizona is being purchased up by investors, and the public is feeling the strain. But who are these investors buying up all the homes and why? iBuyers The iBuyer has been around for a while now, and a lot of sellers have benefited from them. They move in to an...
Why Are Listing Photos So Important
We have become online-home-shopping junkies, there's no question about it. But that's not the reason that the photos are so important for your listing. How the photos are taken Agents don't have a rule for these things. Some will take photos with their cell phones...
Tips for Staging Your Home
When you're getting your home ready to sell, it's crucial to keep in mind how a buyer will view it. You want them to see it as their home, not yours. That can be a difficult pill to swallow for most sellers. How do you live in a house that's no longer your home? It's...
Removing the Emotions When Selling Your Home
Life has changed, and you're getting ready to sell your home. We know it's probably not an easy decision to make, but sometimes it's the only decision. Maybe you're relocating for a job. Welcoming a family member and need more space. Kids are grown and you need less...
The Claims History Report
First, lets just clear something up... The Claims History is NOT the same as a CLUE report. We do not get a CLUE report from the insurance company. A CLUE is a Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange report. A CLUE report will give you the claims history, sure, but...
The Sellers Disclosures (SPDS)
The Sellers Property Disclosures Statement is commonly known in the Real Estate world as the SPDS (or Spuds, but never spell it that way!). In the state of Arizona, we are what you would refer to as a Disclosure State. That means that the seller of a property is...
Disclaimer Deed
Arizona is a community property state... so when one spouse purchases a home and does not go on title, as an owner, the non borrowing spouse will need to sign a Disclaimer Deed. What should you know about Disclaimer Deeds? A disclaimer deed is a document that is filed...