Sellers: your home may not be ready for the market if...

If you really want to sell you home, it really needs to be ready to be sold. Therefore, I have put together a list, based on properties I have shown so far this week, to let you know when your home is NOT ready.

If you own three cars and two of them are broke down in the middle of your front yard...maybe your home is not ready to sell.

If to save money you decided to paint the exterior of your house yourself...but that was three years and two paint color changes ago and it still is not finished...maybe your home is not ready to sell.

Same thing with painting the interior of your home.

If your collection of dead animals and hunting trophies are proudly shown off on every single wall and table in your home...perhaps, just perhaps, your home is not ready to sell.

If your swimming pool is doubling as a fishing hole (no kidding...catfish and everything)...maybe your home is not ready to sell.

If your are saving money by converting those third and fourth bedrooms in your home into a storage facility...maybe your home is not ready for the market

Finally, if the rain gutter, various roof shingles and the privacy fence that were blown down during that windstorm...four years ago...are still in your backyard...maybe your home is not quite ready for the market.

Sellers, please, this is a difficult market for all of us. Especially those of us who make our livings in this industry. Please, please, do us all, and yourselves, a favor and make sure your property is ready to sell before trying to put it on the market. You will save yourselves, and all of us, a whole lot of grief. Thanks.