Has Your Home Sold Yet? Why Not?

There are a few good reasons why your home hasn't sold yet.

1. It hasn't been on the market long enough. It takes a little while for your property listing to create some excitement for buyers who are looking. Buyers may see your listing the first time it gets advertised, or, they might see it in the Home Guide a week or two later when they pick up the next issue. Give it some time.

2. Your agent didn't mention the necessity to de-clutter your home and brighten it up a bit. I have been in homes where each bedroom has boxes packed and stacked up to the ceiling, and all you could see was boxes. In the hallways and around the kitchen table are more boxes and shelves full of all kinds of belongings. Sellers, remember this solid tip, Buyers don't want to see your belongings, they want to see the incredible amount of space you have. That's what sells. De-clutter and turn on all the lights! If you have a home that is dark inside, go buy some bright lamps, then leave them with the house when it sells so the buyers will have the same brightly lit home they bought.

3. The price is way over market value, and everybody knows it, buyers and their agents, who use your house as a "comparison shopping" house to help their buyers purchase the less expensive house that is similar to yours. Listen to your real estate agent and know what the market value is TODAY, because that is really how often the market changes. Tell your agent to be brutally honest with you, even if you think you might not like what you are going to hear. Over in a suburb of Seattle, the market has been changing wildly. A couple of the listings there fluctuated in value by hundreds of thousands of dollars over a four-month period of time, and the sellers decided to remove their homes from the market for awhile until the market stabilizes again. So, keep up with market values around you.

God bless and good luck!

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Quote of the day: ""A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams."-- Unknown

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Connie Suehiro, Realtor(r)

Call 509-431-5804 (for selling or buying real estate,

or my free list of homes in Grant County)

Gary Mann Real Estate

305 E. Third Ave.

Moses Lake, WA 98837