Selling Your Existing Home | Five Reasons to Sell Now | Ways to Become Prepared
Selling Your Existing Home
McDonald Construction is dedicated to making the transition from your current home, into one of our new homes, as easy and pleasurable as possible. As part of that promise, we are able to assist you in the selling of your current residence. Here are five good reasons to sell a home right now. Ask your McDonald Construction New Home Consultant about selling you existing home.
Home Buyer's Checklist: Selling Your Existing Home
For most people, buying a new home is only half of the home buying transaction because they must also sell their existing home. For these folks - about 85% of all home buyers - the other half of the homebuying equation is selling their existing home in a timely manner.
Selling your existing home at the right time can be the difference between acquiring or not acquiring the new home you desire, because few families can afford to carry two mortgages for any length of time. And if you don't sell your existing home when you buy your new home, you'll be paying for both. Conversely, if you sell your existing home before you move into your new home, you won't have anywhere to stay until you close on the sale of your new home, which means you'll have to find a temporary home (and move twice). To reduce these problems, most people choose to look for a new home while their existing home is for sale.
What to do before you sell
Know what you can and cannot change about your existing home before you list it for sale. There are plenty of things you can do to reduce the uncertainty of buying a home and selling a home at the same time. As we have stated in previous installments of this series of articles, proper preparation is critical.
You want to stage your existing home to make it desirable to prospective buyers. Staging your home involves disassociating with it on an emotional level, whether you have lived there for one year or 30 years. Think of your existing home as a used car. If you were in the market for a used car, what kind of used car would appeal to you? The cleanest, lowest-mileage, best-maintained used car at the fairest price would be at the top of our list. Make your existing home just as appealing.
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