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The Home Buyer is the Guest of Honor
When selling your Birmingham Alabama home, you should apply that same tenacity as if you were
planning a party for a guest of honor. Think about it: Don't you want the guest of honor to be pleased enough to make an offer on your house that is for sale? That is your goal right?
Have you ever planned a party for someone at your house? If so, then I'm sure that you try to think of everything that might make it a pleasant experience for the guest of honor. Right? If you have celebratory decorations, you probably spent some time thinking about and coordinating the colors of the party decorations. The house is picture perfect and everything is in it's proper place. You stand back look on with pride. Your first thought is "I hope the guest of honor will like it."
Planning the Party
You’ve decided to sell your home. Besides contacting and selecting a Birmingham real estate agent, one of the first things on your mind is a good old fashioned house cleaning. Don't just go through the motions of having the carpet cleaned, reducing clutter, polishing the furniture and spit shining the floors. In your mind, once you’ve done all of that, you believe your house is list and show ready. You’ve done everything that you could think of to make the home look show ready as far as you could see.
When preparing to sell your Birmingham Alabama home, the foremost thought on your mind should not be how good the house looks to you, but how it will be looked upon by the potential Metro Birmingham-Hoover home buyer (your guest of honor). After all, that is who you are trying to impress right? If your answer is no, then you should clearly rethink your position. Everything that you do to prepare your house for sale should be done with potential home buyers in mind.
Consider What Would Appeal to the Guest of Honor
Curb Appeal
The party starts at the curb. The curb appeal of your house should be like the doorman at a fine hotel: welcoming.
When home buyers get home at the end of the day, all they want to do is relax. A yard full of leaves,overgrown grass and bushes will instantly conjure up visions of “work” for the home buyer.
Update Those Outdated Features
Updating outdated features of a home is probably the most important aspect to consider when preparing to sell your Birmingham Alabama home. Not everyone can afford to do a vast overhaul of the kitchen and bathroom. Ideally, as a home owner, you've updated your while “living” in it and ensured that the home’s features have kept up with the times. Rarely does a decorative style transcend from one decade to another. By periodically updating your house, you won’t run the risk of having to come up with thousands of dollars at once, to do a job that could have been completed over time. If you’re thinking about selling your house in the future and your it is currently in need of updating, start planning the work now and accomplish the updates over time. Give yourself a year or more if necessary, but don’t let procrastination stall the sale of your house.
Check out more tips for the selling your Birmingham Alabama home.
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I just recently decided to go one more step further into the Real Estate Business. My love of the state of Alabama and my friends in Alabama have encourged me to expand and establish my own real estate company.
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$9000 Birmingham Alabama Short Sale: Investors This Property Is Calling Your Names
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I received the following email from a seller last month after having successfully completed the short sale of her house. Boy do I wish all short sale sellers had the same tenacity and determination as Shannon. My heartfelt thanks to Shannon for her testimony and confidence in me and the very trying process.
Thank you Shannon for your testimony and your diligence.
The Best Agent Ever
After moving from Birmingham to Atlanta in August of 2007, I have gone through 2 agents and a property management company to sell/rent my home. After having no luck, I stumbled upon Birmingham WIiRE Realty and Ms. Charita Cadenhead. After speaking with her and telling her my horror story of renting, I signed a contract with her to sell my home.
.... The foreclosure date was postponed several times and I have to say Charita worked diligently trying to find investors or buyers all the way to the end. Finally, the property was foreclosed on in June 2010. We found out in December 2010, that the foreclosure was rescinded and that we were free to sell the house.
Again, Charita was on it and didn’t waste any time....... In March 2011, she found a buyer and we were ready to close in a week when we hit a snag. The previous year foreclosure caused the title to be incorrect. .....This was a serious blow to the closing for this short sale that she worked so hard to obtain approval for.
I desperately needed to finally be done with the property. Ms. Cadenhead was on the phone immediately with the mortgage company, Title Company, foreclosure attorneys and any one that would listen. Every day Charita was calling, emailing, faxing and leaving voicemails to every person that the mortgage company kept sending us to. Charita didn’t let the fact that the mortgage company was basically ignoring me and her keep her from getting the situation resolved.
......Charita encouraged me to file a complaint with the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of Currency) . Within a week and a half of filing the complaint, we finally got some feedback from the mortgage company’s Presidential Office (this is the big time) regarding the loan/property. Not only had they been ignoring us for 9 months, but it only took them a week to fix the title. A week!! After all that and almost losing another buyer, Charita fought for this short sale all the way through to the end and I praise you for your hard work and diligence in getting this done. I don’t believe no other agent would have gone as far for as long as you did. Thank you soo much.
Forever in your graces;
Shannon
Note to AR Members: Don't cha just love a satisfied client?
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Another Happy Bham WIiRE Realty Investor Just Closed on This Home Today
This was such a great buy for my investor clients. Whether they rent it or flip it really doesn't even matter. Either way they go with it, they can expect that the ROI will be well worth the acquistion and rehab cost.
I am looking forward to their next venture, as they have made some sound decisions based on data that I have presented to them and they are definitely playing their "A" game.
What I really love about them is that they select properties in areas where people still want to live AND their timing is just perfect, as there can't be a better time to be an investor in Birmingham, AL than right now.

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