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Marketing Your Home

Exposing your property to the largest possible number of buyers ensures you receive the highest possible sale price. This is accomplished through:

• Immediately exposing your property to the Orangeville and Toronto Real Estate Boards (over 22,000 Salespeople).
•  Placing your home on our Website www.GetSoldForLess.com
• Taking digital pictures of the inside and outside of your home to place on our websites Remax.ca, MLS.ca & REALTOR.com. This exposes your house to the world, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Buyers tend to pick up the local newspaper in the areas they are thinking of moving to. We will advertise your property as required in appropriate publications.
• Stylish “For Sale” sign and lockbox ensure successful showings.
• We process administrative duties ourselves, taking care of all of the details from start to finish in our fully computerised and modern office which allows us to serve you more efficiently. We keep you informed on the market, and promptly pass on all feedback from showings.

 Our Services

There is more to selling your home than putting a sign on your lawn and waiting….. We have perfected a strategy for you! Once we’ve agreed on a price, ideal closing date (if known at this point), what is included in and out of your home:

What’s next?

• Complete the paperwork
• Measure out the home
• Take digital photographs
• Advise on preparing your home for sale
• Load listing on the TREB, mls.ca, Remax.ca, and GetSoldForLess.com
• Let over 22,000 TREB agents know of your listing
• Place sign strategically on your lawn—highly visible and clear
• Put lockbox on door
• Start the marketing process
• Conduct Agent Open House
• Arrange convenient showing times to suit your needs
• Provide feedback on showings
• Qualify buyers through a mortgage broker if not already done
• Regular MLS changes to keep your home fresh and in front of agents
• Prompt return on phone calls and emails from you, and potential buyers and agents
• Meet with you prior to presenting offers to explain the process
• Present all offers
• PROFESSIONAL NEGOTIATION to maximise the price and minimize the problems and conditions to create a quick and firm sale.
• Clearly explain all your options
• Provide constant communication on contract status
• Finalize all conditions
• Deliver contract

Saleability Checklist

 The following check list sets a good example…. Without getting you involved in major renovations or full-scale redecorating projects. Since first impressions are formed from the street, the list starts outside your home.

• Keep lawns and hedges neatly trimmed, and weed flowerbeds
• Clean out garage or carport to show off its full size.
• Clean the outside windows.
• Oil gate hinges and latches, repair fence if necessary
• Remove dead limbs and branches from trees
• Check outdoor lights: are house numbers faded?
• In winter, make sure all ice and snow is removed from outside stairways
• Don’t let anything obstruct the street’s view of your “For Sale” sign

Once they enter your home, prospective buyers are most interested in checking items that will help them assess the overall conditions. That’s why it is very important to remember jobs like these:

• Wash down entry walls or give them a coat of paint
• Repair cupboard doors that stick, squeak or won’t close properly.
• Free up any hard to open windows and sliding glass doors
• Repair leaky faucets and any toilets that run, repair loose tiles
• You’re going to move away. .so clear the clutter from every room. Get rid of anything you don’t want. Pay particular attention to the basement. You won’t believe how much larger you can make it look
• Wash the kitchen walls if necessary, and shine up sinks, knobs etc.
• Make sure your closets are clear of everything except clothes that are neatly hung or folded

Here are a few pointers to remember when you know that prospective buyers are coming over:

• Open drapes to let sunshine fill your home, and turn on all lights
• Try to avoid cooking a meal that might cause a lingering odour (fish, cabbage, curry, etc.
• Put large pets outside. Keep all pets away from potential buyers and clean kitty litter.
• If possible try and leave the home for the time a buyer and agent are there.
• Have an easy listening radio station on but at the right volume so it does not compete with the salesperson's voice.

Our Objectives

Listen carefully so that we fully understand your objectives. Explain the home selling and marketing process—our responsibilities and yours.

Help you price your home.

Tell you the truth—frequently realtors will tell sellers what they want to hear just to get the listing. We are going to be up front and tell you the truth, explain the market conditions, show you comparable homes and statistics, and give you the knowledge you need to make the right decisions.

We are more concerned with selling your home and getting the most money for it than we are with just listing it.

Your home has the most activity within the first 60 days on the market.

Correct pricing is the most important thing you can do to sell your home quickly and for the most money.