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Old 02-01-2012, 09:38 PM
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Default Selling your home

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Originally Posted by Oren L Miller View Post
TV helped us find our realtor. They have agressive methods to find top realtors in your area. My wife is a very good decorator and the realtor we selected had us remove almost all of it. We painted walls neutral colors and removed all of the personalization from the home. To me the house went from WOW to plain jane immediately and it sold at the first showing and we had a contract in less than a week. It was priced to sell. We asked all three realtors what we could sell the house for quickly. They were within a couple of thousand dollars of each other. We actually put in up for 10% more than that and the offer was 5% higher. Forget what it was worth in 2008. Listen to your realtor. They want to sell your home but can't if you won't listen. Houses are selling. It is a different market out there today and many folks are competing with foreclosures that go for a lot less than market value. It is a buyers market. Calculate what it is costing you to keep the house your in. What would it cost you to keep it for one year? TV will help you sell your house with top notch realtors. Try it you have nothing to loose.
Waiting for TV to respond to my request to use their reloc service.
Congrats on your selling your house! Fantastic.

It will definitely cost us more to rent an efficiency apartment than it costs to live in our house. Therefore doesn't make sense to accept a rock bottom price 10 months before we have to move. Really interested in sitting down with the experts and see what they recommend.