This is an angle that many real estate agents have yet to discuss with their seller clients because it may sound a little harsh. Some subjects like current market activity, reductions in asking or list price, keeping the house clean, proper staging, repainting, repairing, de-cluttering, re-carpeting, curb appeal, sanitizing, lighting, scenting, offering closing cost assistance or any other creative marketing idea your agent has conjured up to help you get an offer if your home is not selling quickly will seem like a walk-in-the-park compared to this sick angle.
It may add a greater sense of urgency for making any one of those changes… today!
Ready?
Starting immediately, home sellers need to have a plan in place if they come down with the flu because the house will need to be taken off the market immediately. Really, within the hour.
If you are a sick home seller in Northern Virginia…
- Notify your real estate agent ASAP (e-mail, text, voice mail, Twitter, Facebook… you pick)
- You won’t want anyone calling you on the phone…
- You won’t want anyone catching the flu from you…
- You won’t want anyone using the lock box only to discover you sick in bed, too weak to move…
I have asked before if you are a sick and tired home seller in Northern Virginia? Why? It is because I have shown home over the past 18 years and we discovered someone sick, at home, in bed, and too weak to move. My clients have never bought any of those sick homes.
Home sellers, get this “sick-plan” in place today with your agent and consider making a refinement or two to your home if it will help get a contract… before you get too sick to sell.
