Most pre-owned Villages homes do not stay on the market long.
 

If pre-owned homes stay on the market long here, it is because they are overpriced, smelly or have really out of date fixtures or are dirty. Homes sell quickly here. Very quickly here in The Villages.

We have friends who sold their house, themselves (FSBO) in less than a week recently. I will admit it showed beautifully both inside and out.

I agree! I sold my designer in five weeks and my girlfriend sold her courtyard villa in one day!

sold our first Villages house after the first open house! Total time on the market...3 days.

Tell it like it is sister!!!

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The Courtyard Villa we bought never even hit the market. We heard from some neighbors that they may be putting it on the market, because of illness in the family. We approached them and they said they were considering it. We looked at it, wrote an offer the next day and left with them - two weeks later they accepted our offer and we closed two weeks after that.

How about this title, "take care of your home, price it right and you can sell within two weeks".

Many people want to move to TV. Many will buy pre-owned homes. If you want your home to be one of the ones that somebody buys, you simply have to do the things that need to be done. Make it nice, and reasonably priced for what it is, and where it is.

Just "being in The Villages" by itself will not necessarily sell. There are literally hundreds of homes on the market every day. Nobody needs to jump on a house that is poorly presented, poorly maintained, or overpriced.

Exactly. Price it right and your house will sell. Overpriced homes will sit.

I bought my home from the owner as he was putting the sign in the window. His ad didn't come out until the next day.

We were looking for a CYV, we picked 3 ranked them in the order as 1,2 and 3. In a matter of days they were all sold. We did however luckout with one of our choices the original buyers were unable to complete the deal so we purchased it in June. We got everything we wanted in the villa and in the location we wanted it in.

I was expecting Dad's house to sell quickly but not this quickly. House listed Monday first open house yesterday. House sold full price, cash sale by 7 p.m.. All the work I put in this last month paid off. At least I have a little breathing room to get rid of things and get Dad moved and settled.

Totally agree

Did I miss something here? The article clearly states, “pre-owned homes DO NOT stay on market long”. The respondent implies they do. Honestly, pay attention people.

They say that the price of a house should make the seller feel he got slightly too little and the buyer feel he/she slightly overpaid. Seems to me that having it on the market for a couple of weeks before it sells means that the price was right - and having it sell in a day means it was underpriced.

Common sense dictates the obvious...

Well that may be. The realtor I chose priced it higher than any of the others I met with. Aside from mature landscaping, new water heater and microwave everything else is original. House was cleaned and staged. It also had little competition in area and price range. Pleased with outcome.

If you are thinking of selling your house in TV, you have a unique opportunity to get a feel for the market. Where else can you open the morning paper and see all those Open Houses, each day, find the model that is like yours, and in the same general location, and then go! See the competition.

There are always variables, of course, but this gives you a start as you plan.

But perhaps the biggest advantage to going to Open Houses, if you are planning to sell, is to meet the agents on duty. You can talk with them, ask them questions, see if you click.

I used to FSBO our houses, but I don’t do that anymore. The thing I do now is to choose the agents carefully, have them bring comps, and ask them to tell me anything they see that we need to do. (One time it was to organize the linen closet — took me maybe a half hour. — looked really good — sent a subtle positive message to potential buyers.)

Comps tell you a lot, but not everything. You do have to be in range though.

And don’t cling to your love for your personal decorating choices — at least, do not expect people to pay extra because you painted murals all over the walls. Most interested buyers would be doing the math and subtracting the cost of a painter, instead of embracing your beloved artwork and wanting to pay extra for it. (In other words, never love something that can’t love you back.)

Our houses have sold fast, but I am of the philosophy of doing everything we can on our end and getting it over with. Months and months on the market would drive me crazy — with all those people traipsing through our Open House, just to scout the competition and to look for an agent. Imagine that! ;)