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So you’ve decided to sell your home. You’ve Google searched “home selling tips” and “fastest way to sell a home” and you’ve looked up MLS real estate listings on Zillow and Realtor.com to gain inspiration, but you still feel lost or overwhelmed. What do you do next?
Easily the fastest way to sell a home in any real estate market is to hire a Realtor. While you’ve considered for sale by owner (fsbo) to reduce the cost of selling your home, you realize that you need someone with expertise in marketing your home and insight on the best improvements to increase your home’s valuation. You also need advise on house staging tips as you don’t know how to stage your home, and you need to know if staging your home would even be necessary. Realtors will market your home better than you can on your own and will be able to advise you on pricing strategies and explaining real estate purchase contracts. They’re also well connected and can network with fellow real estate agents to get everyone in the area to know about your home. Most importantly though, Realtors will tell you what’s needed to get your home ready to be listed ASAP. Oftentimes, a Realtor can get your home listed and ready for showings in just a few days! Leave the marketing, contract items, pricing strategies, and networking in the hands of your Realtor. That way, you can focus on getting your home ready to sell and figuring out where to move to next!
If you ran a Google search for “best Realtors in Chicago” or “Top rated Realtor in Lake County, Illinois” you’ll get a list of Realtors with self promotion like “5 star agent this” and “best Realtor in the area that.” You can search for reviews of Realtors all day long, but to truly get someone you know you can trust you should be asking friends, family, and co-workers which real estate agent they use and if they recommend him or her. Oftentimes, it is a warmer introduction and the sales process goes smoother as there is already a foundation of trust that has been built. Realtors are frequently listed as one of the least trusted professions in America, so make it easy on yourself and find someone that your friends, family, and co-workers already trust. Your experience will likely be smoother!
