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Carlyle District Sales Tips

It’s hard to tell exactly what will sell your home. But it’s fairly easy to spot things that will prevent your house or condo in Northern Virginia from selling. Whenever possible, follow these tips for the maximum impact.

1. Remove clutter and clear off counters. Throw out stacks of newspapers and magazines and stow away most of your small decorative items. Put excess furniture in storage, and remove out-of-season clothing items that are cramping closet space. Don’t forget to clean out your storage space, too.
2. Wash your windows and screens. This will help get more light into the interior of the home.
3. Keep everything extra clean. A clean house will make a strong first impression and send a message to buyers that the home has been well-cared for. Wash fingerprints from light switch plates, mop and wax floors, and clean the stove and refrigerator. Polish your doorknobs and address numbers. It’s worth hiring a cleaning service if you can afford it.
4. Get rid of smells. Clean carpeting and drapes to eliminate cooking odors, smoke, and pet smells. Open the windows to air out the house. Potpourri or scented candles will help.
5. Brighten your rooms. Put higher wattage bulbs in light fixtures to brighten up rooms and basements. Replace any burned-out bulbs in closets. Clean the walls, or better yet, brush on a fresh coat of neutral color paint.
6. Don’t disregard minor repairs. Small problems such as sticky doors, torn screens, cracked caulking, or a dripping faucet may seem trivial, but they’ll give buyers the impression that the house isn’t well-maintained.
7. Beautify your balcony. Place a pot of bright flowers on the balcony.  Paint a picture of relaxation with carefully places chairs or tables.
8.  Add a touch of color in the living room. A colored afghan or throw on the couch will jazz up a dull room. Buy new accent pillows for the sofa.
9. Buy a flowering plant and put it near a window you pass by frequently.
10. Make centerpieces for your tables. Use brightly colored fruit or flowers.
11. Set the scene. Set the table with fancy dishes and candles, and create other vignettes throughout the home to help buyers picture living there. For example, in the basement you might display a chess game in progress.
12. Replace heavy curtains with sheer ones that let in more light. Show off the view if you have one.
13. Make the bathrooms feel luxurious. Put away those old towels and toothbrushes. When buyers enter your bathroom, they should feel pampered. Add a new shower curtain, new towels, and fancy guest soaps. Make sure your personal toiletry items are out of sight.
14. Send your pets to a neighbor or take them outside. If that’s not possible, crate them or confine them to one room (ideally in the basement), and let the real estate practitioner know where they’ll be to eliminate surprises.
15. Lock up valuables, jewelry, and money. While a real estate salesperson will be on site during the showing or open house, it’s impossible to watch everyone all the time.
16. Leave the home. It’s usually best if the sellers are not at home. It’s awkward for prospective buyers to look in your closets and express their opinions of your home with you there.

12 Ways Your CONDO Alexandria Realtor Can Help You

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1. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor can help you determine your sales price— At no cost you, your Condo Alexandria Realtor can perform a comparative market analysis. Unlike the wildly inaccurate estimates on some Internet sites, we use local knowledge, experience and real sales data from area tax records to determine how much your house might fetch.
2. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor employs the latest technology available. Condo Alexandria will market your property through thousands of websites and to every real estate agent in Northern Virginia. We have a mobile application so that buyers can search for homes on their smart phone.
3. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor can help you negotiate. There are myriad negotiating factors, including but not limited to price, financing, terms, date of possession and often the inclusion or exclusion of repairs and furnishings or equipment. The purchase agreement should provide a period of time for you to complete appropriate inspections and investigations of the property before you are bound to complete the purchase. Your agent can advise you as to which investigations and inspections are recommended or required.
4. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor can help you in understanding different financing options and in identifying qualified buyers. Not all prequalification letters are created the same. Your agent can help you distinguish between who will get the loan and who might get the loan to buy your property.
5. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor can guide you through the closing process and make sure everything flows together smoothly. Your agent will help you review the HUD and make sure that you get every penny you deserve. We’ll check with settlement company to make sure that your title is prepared for sale in a timely manner.
6. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor can give you up-to-date information on what is happening in the marketplace and the price, financing, terms and condition of competing properties. These are key factors in getting your property sold at the best price, quickly and with minimum hassle.
7. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor markets your property to other real estate agents and the public. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor markets your property to other real estate agents and the public. In many markets across the country, over 50% of real estate sales are cooperative sales; that is, a real estate agent other than yours brings in the buyer. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor acts as the marketing coordinator, disbursing information about your property to other real estate agents through a Multiple Listing Service or other cooperative marketing networks, open houses for agents, etc. The Condo Alexandria Realtor Code of Ethics requires Condo Alexandria Realtors to utilize these cooperative relationships when they benefit their clients.
8. Often, your Condo Alexandria Realtor can recommend repairs or cosmetic work that will significantly enhance the salability of your property. Because we do property management we often have access to rates on repairs that are not available to the general public.
9. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor will know when, where and how to advertise your property. There is a misconception that advertising sells real estate. The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS studies show that 82% of real estate sales are the result of agent contacts through previous clients, referrals, friends, family and personal contacts.
10. When a property is marketed with the help of your Condo Alexandria Realtor, you do not have to allow strangers into your home. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor will generally prescreen and accompany qualified prospects through your property.
11. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor can help you objectively evaluate every buyer’s proposal without compromising your marketing position. This initial agreement is only the beginning of a process of appraisals, inspections and financing — a lot of possible pitfalls. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor can help you write a legally binding, win-win agreement that will be more likely to make it through the process.
12. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor can help close the sale of your home.

Between the initial sales agreement and closing (or settlement), questions may arise. For example, unexpected repairs are required to obtain financing or a cloud in the title is discovered. The required paperwork alone is overwhelming for most sellers. Your Condo Alexandria Realtor is the best person to objectively help you resolve these issues and move the transaction to closing (or settlement).

Why people choose Condo Alexandria / Nesbitt Realty

Despite what anyone may tell you, condos and homes are selling Alexandria VA and the truth is the Carlyle District is one of the most sought after communities in Northern VA. Condo Alexandria / Will Nesbitt Realty LLC is a real estate brokerage with experience selling homes in the Carlyle District. Here’s why people choose Condo Alexandria to sell property in the Carlyle District:

• People respect our experience. — We have some of the most experienced agents in the business and it shows.
  

  Nesbitt Realty is CONDO Alexandria.

• We plan our work and work our plan. — We will create a custom-made marketing plan to sell your property and then execute that plan.
• We are local. — We live here and work here. Nesbitt Realty is a family-0wned and operated business.
• We work the Internet. — We have one of the largest Internet footprints in Northern VA. We use our technology tools to provide hi-tech home town home sales.
• You come first. — If it doesn’t make sense to sell, we’ll tell you so. If it makes sense to sell we’ll help you achieve that goal as quickly as possible with the highest price the market will bear.