Lazerus Properties Home Selling Guide

Step 1: Home Pricing

Reason for Selling: The reason you are selling your home can have a huge impact on your selling strategy. Seller’s strategies can vary from needing immediate cash to wanting to improve the home and maximize the sales price for top dollar. Our agents will work with you to help you decide the best strategy for your situation and goals.

Comparable Reports and Selling Strategy: To help evaluate pricing our agents will prepare reports from similar homes in your area and factor in the unique aspects of your home, as well as your reasons for selling, to help create the best home selling strategy for you.
Home Pricing: After determining your reason, strategy, and timeframe for selling as well as your unique home factors, our agents will work with you to establish a listing price based on your situation and goals.
Net sheet/ Sellers Estimated Net Proceeds: An estimated Net Sheet showing your estimated sales price, closing costs, and net proceeds of what you are estimated to walk away with after the sale will be prepared by our agents for you.

Step 2: Preparing Your Home

Inspections: Assessing the condition of your home is an essential first step in preparing it to be sold. This can be done by you or in combination with various professionals. Our agents will walk you through the various inspection options as well as your estimated costs and benefits (Ex. Presale- Home Inspections, Termite Reports, etc.). Often times clearing up small repair issues can help avoid big discounts and delays with buyers later on.

Improvements: Once you have determined the condition of your property, you can decide which improvements make the most sense based on your selling strategy and what improvements may maximize your return on investment. Often updating large surface areas such as walls and flooring can have a large impact. Putting a fresh coat of paint on the house or repainting crazy-colored walls to a more neutral color can be more widely appealing.

Declutter, Clean, and Depersonalize: These are three essential steps when it comes to preparing your home. You will want to make your home look and feel as close to a model home as your efforts allow. This may include selling or moving excess items into an attic or storage, declutter kitchen counters, kids’ room closets, remove unnecessary furniture to maximize space etc. Everything should be as clean as possible including bathrooms, carpets, walls, windows etc.

Curb Appeal: Lawns and shrubs must be maintained, trees trimmed, sidewalks and driveways power washed / possibly glazed, possible shrubs or flowers added, whatever it takes to maximize and make that first impression in the photos and at your front door to get buyers in.

Step 3: Preparing for Marketing and Open House

Staging: Once your home has been cleaned up you can work with our agent for final staging touches including adjusting or removing unnecessary furniture, throw rugs, pillows, and any final steps to get that model home luxury look and feel.

Photos: If there is any one item that will get buyers in and sell your home it’s the photos! More than any description, fancy home website or 3D tour people are skimming through the first photo of your home and deciding in less than a fraction of a second if they want to see more of your house. This is why Lazerus Properties puts an incredible effort, time and expertise in preparing the absolute best photos to ensure a response that draws in more buyers.

Open House: Most people are going to need to see your home before making an offer. Which is why Lazerus Properties, and our agents help you prepare and give our expert guidance to make for a smooth and successful transaction, ensuring your home sells as quickly as possible and at the maximum possible price!

Contact us today for a free Home Pricing Estimate and to see if selling your home currently makes sense for you.