We will always wonder if we could have got more....

It is a classic feeling. You list your home at the recommended asking price, an offer is presented, and you sell your home. It doesn't matter if you sold your home for full asking price, or bellow...we always wonder if we could have got more!

It seems to be a natural reaction when we sell, and it's not just our Clients who experience this as I recently went through the same when we sold our home.

We listed at a very realistic asking price. We could have asked more, but we knew that we would be asking too much to entice an offer. Other homes of the same model were also on the market, and some were asking alot more than us. Having realized that they had been on the market for a long time, with no offers, we decided to price accordingly. We wanted to move, and didn't want to wait 3 months to have to reduce our price until we got action.

So the price was set, and we got an offer. We sold our home. As happy as we were about selling, we still couldn't help but wonder if we should have asked more for it. I had to satisfy my desire to know, so I did some research.

I discovered that not only did we sell for full asking price, but we had actually set the bar for that model of home in our area. We had sold our home for higher than anyone else had done.

Now this made us feel great!

It goes without saying, if you are serious about selling then price right for your market. Stop comparing to other homes that are asking too much. Driving home prices up un-naturally is a drawn out game that may end in disappointment.