Sherie Earley-Womack

Making a Good First Impression

If you want buyers to be interested in your home, you need to show it in its best light. A good first impression can influence a buyer into making an offer; it influences a buyer emotionally and visually. In addition, what the buyer first sees is what they think of when they consider the asking price.

A bad first impression can dissuade a potential buyer. Don't show your property until it's all fixed up. You do not want to give buyers the chance to use the negative first impression they have as means of negotiation.

Ask around for the opinions others have of your home. Real estate agents who see houses everyday can give solid advice on what needs to be done. Consider what architects or landscape designers have to say. What you need are objective opinions, and it's sometimes hard to separate the personal and emotional ties you have for the home from the property itself.

Typically, there are some general fix ups that need to be done both outside and on the inside. As a seller, you should consider the following:

*Landscaping - Has the front yard been maintained? Are areas of the house visible to the street in good condition?
*Cleaning or Redoing the driveway - Is your driveway cluttered with toys, tools, trash etc.?
*Painting - Does both the exterior and the interior look like they have been well taken care of?
*Carpeting - Does the carpet have stains? Or does the carpet look old and dirty?

call me today for a free home visit! I would love to work hard to sell your home!

Sherie Earley-Womack

Choie Real Estate

931-261-8955

Staging Your Home To Sell for Top Dollar

Staging Your Home To Sell for Top Dollar...

Home staging is a relatively inexpensive way to change the interior appearance of a home. It has evolved into one of the quickest and best marketing tools for improving a property's salability. Staging focuses on eye catching tactics through the reemployment of accessories, rearrangement of furniture and just plain simplifying the often overly decorated rooms most owners have grown accustomed to.

People usually think interior decorating and home staging are one in the same. Professional interior decorating focuses on fulfilling the owners' decorating desires and often involves remodeling and the purchase of a lot of furnishings and accessories.

Home staging, on the other hand, promotes the use of what you already have or uses inexpensive acquisitions as props in order to provide a simplified and depersonalized look. The stagers encourage you to view your home as a product to be marketed, not as the refuge that fulfills your needs. Staging is also referred to as real estate staging, home enhancement, interior redesign or simply redesigning.

Whatever the name it goes by, the goal is to get buyers to view your home as their home. Staging zeros in on modifying your home to maximize its appeal to home buyers, without spending a lot of money.

Rather than trying to impress buyers with your choice of decor, you should strive to influence these prospects with the potential your home offers. This can be accomplished with as simple a concept as rearranging a room's contents to provide an aesthetically pleasing environment. It may not function the way you want it to, but staging often involves classic examples of form over function.

Some Areas of Concentration in Your Home:

Accessorizing

Be prepared to show your stager what accessories you have stored away, including collections, pictures and knick-knacks that you've grown tired of. A new arrangement, placement or focus could bring life to existing decor or living spaces with things you already own. Although it's probably not the look or decorating you currently want, it may be the best to help market your home.
Homes that maintain shrines to teddy bears, Elvis, glass figurines, dolls and large collections of just about anything discourage emphasis on your showing objectives. Would you ever see these types of personal collections in a model home?


Rearranging furniture

Avoid lining up furniture along all the walls. Consider artful placement at an angle or a rearrangement that modifies current furniture distribution such as creating a cozy reading corner in a large living room, or a sofa/chair placement that makes more of an intimate conversational area.

Eliminating furniture

Remove excess furniture in most rooms, including bedrooms. Furniture or decor that would be considered unusual or unconventional should be scrutinized. You're trying to impress buyers, not your friends.
Take a clue from builders. Their model homes often utilize scaled down furniture to achieve the illusion of making rooms appear larger.
GET YOUR MONEY'S WORTH

Home stagers will point out the need for cleaning and eliminating clutter and obvious distractions that need attention or repair. Save yourself some money and make the most of this professional's time by tackling these mandatory projects ahead of time. The cost of our Home Stager will be a whole lost LESS MONEY than your first Price Reduction! Don't Wait Contact Karen Today, Our Accredited Staging Profession. Karen graduated from the best training available today and was taught by the founder of Home Staging.

Call me today to get your home sold!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sherie Earley-Womack

Choice Real Estate

931-261-8955

sherie@choiceoftn.com

Use a Buyer's Agent

It's important that you choose an experienced agent who is there for you. Your agent should be actively finding you potential homes, keeping you informed of the entire process, negotiating furiously on your behalf, and answering all of your questions with competence and speed.

First, find an agent who represents you and not the seller. This is beneficial during the negotiation process. If you are working with a buyer's agent, he or she is required not to tell the seller of your top choice. In addition, he or she is also focused on getting you the lowest asking price.

Also, when you use a buyer's agent, you will see more properties. Not only are they plugged into their Multiple Listing Service, but also they are actively finding homes that are listed as FSBO, or homes that sellers are thinking about listing.

Call me for more info!

Sherie Earley-Womack

Coice Real Estate

931-261-8955

sherie@choiceoftn.com

FSBO's... Most Agents Won't Show Your Home...

If you are going to be successful in selling your home, you must cover all your bases and that means that your home must be in the MLS. If you are not in the MLS, most agents won't show your home to a buyer. Why? Well, the truth is that for the many years I spent searching for homes for my buyers to look at, there were always plenty of them for us to see in the MLS. I usually didn't have time to call a FSBO and ask them if they would let me show their home. If I ran across one while I was out showing homes with my buyers, most of the time the sellers weren't at home when we were at their home. Another reason why some agents won't show your home is because they don't know if they're going to get paid or not. With the MLS, an agent already knows that you have agreed to pay them for their work. For all the FSBO out there looking for help in selling your home without it costing you your profit, we have the right choice for you!

Now you can also be in the MLS without paying high commissions and without losing all your profit on the sale of your home.


The Bottom Line - The MLS Still Is The Key
In today's market, whether you choose to go into the Knoxville Multiple Listing Service (Cumberland Plateau & Crossville Area) or The Upper Cumberland Multiple Listing Service (Cookeville & Upper Cumberland Region) the MLS still hold the power to make your home sell. We can place your home in either MLS system or both - the choice is yours

Call me today!!! Sherie Earley-Womack 931-261-8955 or email me sherie@choiceoftn.com