Moving from the home in which you and your family have lived, loved and grown in can be traumatic. Through the years, your home has become an extension of you and your life experiences. Many people find that selling their home is much like giving up a part of themselves, despite the excitement of new challenges, neighborhoods and friends.

But... selling your home does not have to be an emotional nightmare. Once you have made the difficult decision to move, your home becomes a house, a piece of real estate, which needs to be sold. Removing the emotion from your home should help you concentrate more objectively on the finer points of selling a house.

Start with an overall view of what selling a house involves;

• Choose the best real estate sales professional by calling us at All County Realty 619-253-9923
• Determine and set the right price
• Sign the listing agreement
• Review financing available to potential buyers
• Arrange for pest/termite inspections
• Make major repairs
• Clean and polish the house
• Be patient while the house is shown and marketed
• Negotiate offers
• Consult with us about moving to a new home, and make arrangement for the financing of the new home
• Close the deal
• Move!

Once you have made the initial decision to sell, you will immediately be faced with another tough question. Hire a real estate sales associate or try to sell the house yourself?

To sell and market a house requires specialized skills, is time consuming, and costs money.

• Are you prepared to buy advertising space? Advertising is one way to let the buying public know your house is on the market. If not, can you afford the time it will take to sell your house with only a sign in the yard?
• Are you willing to stay close to home for days, weeks, maybe months to show your house?
• Do you possess the necessary legal and financial knowledge to answer buyers' questions, negotiate a contract, or close a sale? If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, perhaps hiring us to help would be the most efficient way to sell your house. We can be indispensable to you in the following ways.

• Access the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), which exposes your house to all cooperating member brokers
• Assist with pricing the house properly based on Comparative Market Analysis
• Provide a detailed marketing plan
• Effectively market your home using our advertising know-how, expertise and experience within the market place
• Screen potential buyers for financial qualifications
• Provide suggestions for making your property more attractive to potential buyers
• Show your home whether or not you are there
• Answer potential buyer's questions
• Present all offers
• Assist with negotiating the best sale
• Facilitate the closing process
• Help reduce the liability of the sale