When listing your home to sell the most important thing to keep in mind is pricing the home to sell. This statement sounds quite redundant but seriously, if you want it to find a buyer your home must be priced competatively with the current market. When you first speak with a Realtor® then should provide you with a current ‘market analysis’. This will show you the price of comparable properties in your neighborhood that are currently listed and those that have recently sold. Take this information to heart when determining your asking price.
Here is a true story of a home in my neighborhood. This un-named home was listed with a local brokerage in October of 2008 with an asking price in the $120,000’s. The home remained at that price for the entire listing period of over six months, the listing then expired with this brokerage. Shortly after the expiration, June 2009, the listing was picked up by another brokerage and priced under $100,000. Six more months go by, now it is November 2009 and the agent reduces the price $5,000. This home is still listed nearly a year and a half later, had it been listed at the current price when it was originally listed my guess it would have sold by now.
And since today is St. Patrick’s Day, here’s a snap of the clover that 1.5 and I have been growing in our windowsill.
Thanks so much for all the comments this week! After seeing the generosity in our community over the weekend I am so proud of all my neighbors. Josh and I helped pass out flyers for Marion ACT’s Operation Feed at Kroger South on Saturday, it was lots of fun to watch the patrons contribute to such a great cause. It appears our little virtual food drive will be adding 55 items to the Marion are pantries.
Bo and I will be heading to the store later this week to pick out our non-parrishable food contribution, we hope you all will be doing the same!
Last March I ran a ‘Cans For Comments’ food drive here on my blog, it was lots of fun and I appreciated all the help. (There’s no need checking the archives, shortly after the food drive I accidentally deleted all of my previous posts.) I’m going to do the same thing this year in hopes of having even more comments for 2010, there were around 30 last year. I will gather comments until next Sunday – March 14th 2010 and be donating one nonperishable food item for each comment left below. All items will be given to the 2010 Marion ACT Operation Feed the following week.
As a side note I have been working on my photography skills, our son wanted to help to give my readers some ideas of the items we will be donating in your honor.
Thanks in advance for your comments and for spreading the word, hope everyone has a great week!
If you follow me on Twitter or my FaceBook feed you know that I have an AWESOME neighbor that’s not afraid to use his snow blower. Each time it snows he is out clearing the walks, sometimes several times a day, like it is his job. In recent weeks, with around two feel of snow, he’s been by nearly two dozen times and never asks for any sort of repayment. How do I say THANKS to that?
Growing up there was no better way to tell someone you were thinking of them in a time of need, wanted to say thank you or welcome a someone new to the neighborhood was with food. What says ‘Thank You’ like fresh preserves or warm rolls? That being said, I made some ‘Fake Cinnamon Rolls’ this afternoon to share with my snow blowin’ neighbor. I’d like to know how you show your gratitude, what tells your hard work is appreciated? Leave me a comment below of your favorite expressions of thanks….. Thanks!
