Setting the Price of Your Home
We will provide you with a comparative market analysis based on:
- Neighborhood comps from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
- Existing real estate market
- Existing financial environment
- Title company records
Selling Your Home
Preparing Your Home For Sale
Your Dickson Agent will walk through and make a visual inspection:
- Agent inspection/marketing consultation
- Possible recommendations:
- Termite inspection
- Structural inspection
- Decorator inspection
- Heating/Cooling inspection
- Recommendations of repairs and cosmetic updating
Agent and Buyer Tours of Your Home
- Agents preview
- Organize, if appropriate, city-wide agent tour
- Schedule Buyer appointments
Getting Your Home On The Market
- Prepare the forms for the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
- Prepare all legal documents
- Prepare and organize advertising campaign
- Draft brochure for Seller’s approval
- Make duplicate keys
- Submit all forms for input and approval
- Place “For Sale” sign
- Schedule all still photography and videography
- Review and file completed Seller’s Real Property Disclosure Statements
- Order preliminary title report
- Arrange showing schedule with Seller
Weekly Results Review
We will review:
- The results of all showings
- Review advertising responses
- Pre-qualify potential buyers
- Review any offers with seller
- Call agents who have shown the property and report results
What Happens When an Offer is Received
We will:
- Present an offer and review contract and all paperwork
- Open escrow and prepare escrow fact sheet to track contingency removal deadlines
- Specify necessary disclosures and reports
- Coordinate appraisal and all inspections
- Prepare pertinent documents for Buyer’s approval
- Verify Buyer’s loan application has been submitted to lender
- Review preliminary title report and take action on any inaccuracies
- Confirm existing loan payoff demands
- Review all inspections and assist in crafting response
- Counsel Seller through negotiations
- Confirm contingency removals and have pertinent documents signed
- Work through any problems that might come up through the escrow period
- Schedule Seller’s signing appointment with escrow officer
- Arrange key transfer with Buyer
- Confirm actual recordation of the property with the title company
- Arrange delivery of Seller’s closing documentation and proceeds
