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Are you thinking about selling your home? Would you like to sell
it by yourself instead of hiring a real estate agent? If so it
would be beneficial to review the pros and cons of selling your
home by yourself before hanging out the sign.
PROS
Selling your home without an agent means More Money. If that’s
not an incentive, what is? By selling it yourself you save the
fees or commissions (thousands of dollars) that you would have
to pay an agent.
You are able to decide the times for open houses and showings as
well as where you want to advertise. Because you are only
selling one home - unlike an agent who is working with many
buyers and sellers ? you will always be focused on the selling
of your home. You will have more interest in the sale than a
real estate agent who may be looking for bigger commissions
elsewhere.
CONS
Real estate agents are paid good money for a reason. Selling a
home takes a lot of time and energy. Open houses, dealing with
potential buyers, closing sales and dealing with the legal
issues are familiar turf for these people and their experience
can impact the sale.
Be realistic about what you are willing to do. Will you drop
everything to make a showing? Are you able to âclose the deal’
and ask for an offer? It is not everyone who can take on such a
big project or can handle the tension of dealing with buyers.
However, if the challenge excites you and if you are ready for
hard work and willing to learn then it is not impossible for you
to manage alone. With a little know-how and a lot of energy, you
can sell your home without the help of a real estate agent and
reap the rewards!
Where do you begin?
Start with evaluating your home. How much can you ask? What work
needs to be done? How do you decide how much your house is worth
without asking too much and scaring buyers off or too little and
not making what you should?
How Do You Evaluate Your Home?
Choosing the right price for your home is crucial to making a
sale. You risk everything if your price is too far off the
current market. You don’t want to discourage buyers because you
are pricing too high and you don’t want to throw away equity
because of a low asking price.
Preparing Your Home for the Market
Now it’s time to look as objectively at your own home as you did
to other peoples’ homes.
Your prospective buyers will be scrutinizing your home; has it
been taken care of or neglected? Will there be expensive repairs
or are they hiding something? Taking the time to clean up and
make repairs will repay you with confident buyers anxious to
make an offer on a home that has been properly taken care of.
How to Advertise Your Home
Don’t worry. You’ve already done the hard work. Your research
has been conducted, your home has been cleaned and prepared and
you have all the vital information necessary to offer
prospective buyers. Now you need to get the word out!
How to Show and Sell Your Home
You’ve done your research. You’ve priced your home, cleaned and
freshened it up. Your sign is hung out and you’ve worked hard on
creating an intriguing ad. You told everyone you know that
you’re selling your home. Now you wait for the phone to ring.
How do you handle calls from buyers? What do you ask? How do you
get them to come visit?
Legal Issues
Selling and buying homes requires legal paperwork. Writing
contracts to sell your home is tricky business and you do need a
lawyer to help you. Find one by asking for recommendations from
family or friends or by looking for one in the phone book. Ask
for a consultation before deciding.
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The devastation that has rocked the Gulf Coast recently is
almost unimaginable, isn’t it? I know these are extraordinary
circumstances, but the looting that has been taking place has
made me think about why some people take whatever they want and
why some people only take what they need.
It seems that those who come from a place of scarcity take
whatever they want, perhaps in spite of what they need. But
those who come from a place of abundance in their hearts and
minds take only what they need. As a coach who helps solo
service professionals attract an abundance of clients, I
encounter scarcity thinking quite a bit. (I had to tackle that
monster myself at one point!) A catastrophe like Katrina can
shift our thinking almost immediately from being afraid of never
having enough to being overwhelmingly grateful for what we do
have. I’m sure many of you can tick off thanks for your health,
your loved ones, your home, and your full pantry, at the very
least.
What scarcity thinking does to us:
Scarcity thinking makes us hoard. For example, do you “save”
certain clothes to wear for special occasions only? Yet by the
time you decide that the occasion is “good enough” to wear it,
it’s either out of style or doesn’t fit or is in some other
state that makes it no longer wearable? Why don’t you just pull
it out and enjoy it now? Because there’s that little voice that
says you might not have something to replace this one if you
spilled something on it, or it got torn or damaged in another
way, right?
Scarcity thinking stops us from giving. And not giving puts a
plug in all that the universe wants to send our way. One of the
mantras in the Client Abundance coaching programs is “Giver’s
Get.” In other words, the more you give - of your time, your
skills, your compassion, your help and support, and yes, your
money - the more you get back. It may not always take the same
form, but it’s true…the more you give, the more you get.
For example, several years ago there was a family in our
community who lost everything to a house fire. I didn’t know
them and things were tight for us at the time, but I wrote them
a small check and a note with my prayers. A few weeks later, I
received a project that was three times the fees I had ever
received to date.
What abundance thinking does for us:
And this is what abundance thinking does for us. It opens up
possibilities and opportunities that would never have be able to
make themselves known to us if we weren’t open to receiving
them, open to the concept that there is enough for everyone, and
that we are good enough to not only deserve abundance, but to
desire it as well!
The best part of the âgivers get’ belief is that you don’t even
have to believe it for it to happen in your own life.
Now think about what you would do if you found yourself in
similar circumstances as Hurricane Katrina has ravaged on so
many people. Would you take just what you need? Would you lend
whatever you had left to help another? Would you seek to repay
whatever it is that you “borrowed” in some other way? Recognize
if your thinking comes from a place of not having enough
already, or from knowing that there is always more than enough.
Right now, decide to live life with abundance thinking and
action. Complete the following exercises and watch abundance
flow your way:
1. What is one action you could take to move from scarcity
thinking to abundance thinking?
2. Do you need a physical reminder to change your thinking? A
rubber band on your wrist that you snap each time you find
yourself falling into scarcity thinking can do wonders in a very
short amount of time!
3. Repeat every morning and every night - with feeling!: I
embrace abundance and abundance embraces me.
Do you feel a shift in your thinking already? Good! Now, is
there something - money, blood, time, clothing - that you could
give to the relief effort that may feel uncomfortable as you
make this shift in thinking but you know would feel great once
you did so? Commit today to one thing and just do it. I promise
that it will come back to you in ways you can’t even imagine.
© 2005 Alicia Forest
Alicia Forest, MBA, is the author of “The Client Abundance
Training Manual: The Ultimate Guide to Driving an Abundance of
Clients to Your Business”. If you liked this article, you’ll
LOVE this step-by-step guide, guaranteed to be the most
comprehensive manual to driving an abundance of clients to your
business, consistently and easily. Find out more at
http://www.clientabundance.com/camanual.htm
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