Why Sell With Me?
I combine knowledge, passion and skill to exceed every client’s expectation. See below for the 50 things I do to create real estate experiences worth talking about. 😀
- Help you identify your selling goals and expectations
- Recommend ideal timing to list your home, balancing what’s best for you with what’s happening in the market
- Provide a market valuation and prepare a comparable market analysis (CMA)
- Provide guidance and advice on how best to prepare your home for sale
- Connect you with cleaning companies and tradespeople to assist in home preparation
- Coordinate staging consultations and professional stagers to optimize the look and feel of your home (internally or externally). Some agents (like us) actually coordinate and PAY for staging!
- Guide you on ways to optimally showcase the outside of your home and yard
- Provide pricing strategy options and recommendations
- Help educate you through every step of the process
- Ensure you understand what you need to disclose to potential Buyers
- Mediate the (sometimes) complicated relationships between spouses and others involved in the selling process
- Install a lockbox and make an extra key so other agents can easily show your home
- Help you manage the stress and emotions that are part of selling a home
- Identify the highlights of your home that will matter to your target Buyers
- Write engaging copy to make your home appeal to the right Buyers
- Coordinate photographers, videographers and floor plan people
- Post your home on the MLS
- Advertise your home online
- Market your home on social media
- Share your home via email to potential buyers and their agents
- Promote your home to other agents
- Educate potential Buyers about your neighbourhood
- Install (or coordinate to install) ‘For Sale’ signage
- Prepare in-home marketing, from feature sheets to neighbourhood infographics to signage
- Protect your legal interests at all times
- Provide guidance about the best ways and times for you to show your home to potential Buyers and their agents
- Anticipate problems that may occur with the legal title of your home (mistakes in your home’s registration, easements, etc.)
- Order condo status certificates (& PAY for them) and provide them to interested buyers
- Obsessively update the MLS to see new listings that might affect your sale
- Help navigate the speed bumps that can occur when selling a home
- Provide current market intelligence, beyond the monthly statistics. What’s reallyhappening out there?
- Coordinate and schedule showings for Sellers
- Gather feedback from agents who’ve shown your home
- Host open houses (in-person or virtual)
- Respond to unrepresented Buyers and answer their questions about your home
- Provide competitive intelligence…what other homes are competing with yours for the same kind of Buyer?
- Help identify why your home might not be selling and suggest new strategies
- Develop strong relationships and communicate (sometimes endlessly) with the agents showing your home, 24/7
- Provide ongoing feedback about the state of your sale
- Set expectations about offers and the offer process
- Help you understand the legal paperwork, what you’re signing and why
- Negotiate the price, conditions and terms of offers, always in your best interest.
- Coordinate receipt of the Buyer’s deposit
- Coordinate home inspections (pre or post) offer
- Manage required waivers and amendments for offers with conditions
- Coordinate with appraisers and assist if things don’t go as planned.
- Connect your lawyer with the Buyer’s lawyer so they can facilitate the closing
- Install a SOLD sign
- Hold your hand through to closing day, navigating any issues that arise
- Celebrate with you after a successful sale and closing
