Spring is coming, and along with it our busiest listing season:
Give me a call to discuss the value of your property!
Many sellers are under the impression that winter is a slow sales time, but that is a misconception. In a resort town especially, a lot of homes sell in the winter, particularly if there is good skiing. And this season is surely starting off well!
It’s true that sales traditionally peak between Spring and Summer, but the selling season goes well through the winter ski season. Also, the lower winter inventory means less competition to sell!
Ski areas and resort towns vacationers fall in love with the winter wonderland and start looking for a snowy retreat, and Fall and Winter are a great time for buyers to search for new home sites in these areas.
While home sellers may not be thrilled about keeping their home show-ready during the holidays, it’s the perfect time to find a buyer who is vacationing. By continuing to fully market your properties during this season, you won’t miss the vacationer that is searching on their laptop, smartphone or tablet for a property.
So, it’s time to put your home on the market, and get Rock Star Real Estate exclusive seller listing representation, advertising and Social Media package.
- Establish the highest possible price for your home
- Professional interior and exterior photography
- MLS placement
- Place advertisements and links on all most relevant websites for Real Estate
- Personalized Social Media advertising on all most relevant Social Media Platforms, with particular attention to targeting the right audience for your property.
- Personally promote your home with other agents and possible buyers
- Open Houses
- Coordinate all showings with agents and buyers
- Council potential buyers through the best financing options
- Present, negotiate and discuss all offers on property
- Arrange and follow up all inspections and appraisal
- Organize the closing process with a qualified title company
- Finalize all the details remaining for a smooth transaction
Contact Tammy for a free estimate of your home value and to discuss the winning strategy to sell your home!
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A lot of sellers are under the impression that winter is a slow sales time, but that is a misconception. In a resort town especially, a lot of homes sell in the winter, particularly if there is good skiing. And this season is surely starting off well!
It’s true that sales traditionally peak between Spring and Summer, but the selling season goes well through the winter ski season. Also, the lower winter inventory means less competition to sell!
Ski areas and resort towns vacationers fall in love with the winter wonderland and start looking for a snowy retreat, and Fall and Winter are a great time for buyers to search for new home sites in these areas.
While home sellers may not be thrilled about keeping their home show-ready during the holidays, it’s the perfect time to find a buyer who is vacationing. By continuing to fully market your properties during this season, you won’t miss the vacationer that is searching on their laptop, smartphone or tablet for a property.
So, it’s time to put your home on the market, and get Rock Star Real Estate exclusive seller listing representation, advertising and Social Media package.
- Establish the highest possible price for your home
- Professional interior and exterior photography
- MLS placement
- Place advertisements and links on all most relevant websites for Real Estate
- Personalized Social Media advertising on all most relevant Social Media Platforms, with particular attention to targeting the right audience for your property.
- Personally promote your home with other agents and possible buyers
- Open Houses
- Coordinate all showings with agents and buyers
- Council potential buyers through the best financing options
- Present, negotiate and discuss all offers on property
- Arrange and follow up all inspections and appraisal
- Organize the closing process with a qualified title company
- Finalize all the details remaining for a smooth transaction
Contact Tammy for a free estimate of your home value and to discuss the winning strategy to sell your home!
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Everybody knows that spring and summer are the best seasons to sell a house. Thing is, here in Mammoth Lakes it can be different!
Being a year-round resort, from fishing and mountain biking to skiing, the appeal for buyers to look for their new home in Mammoth never ceases!
So, cheer up and let’s get your home ready to sell, taking advantage of the season!
Include a photo album or digital slideshow of the exterior in the summer, spring, and fall.
Highlight garden beds, and patios or decks with furniture so the buyer can envision the home year-round.
Check window seals and doors for drafts. A drafty window is most noticeable on a cold day, so take extra efforts to weather seal and insulate around windows and doors.
Have the furnace and water heater serviced: change the filters so the air will have a good, fresh scent.
Shorter days and lower sun make it more difficult to have nice light throughout your home. Besides the usual (retract blinds, and widen curtains, so there’s minimal window coverage. The windows will look bigger, and it’ll encourage daylight to flow into your space.), it might be a good idea to switch some light bulbs for brighter ones.
A bathroom looks great with daylight bulbs (5,000-6,500K) and living spaces, such as bedrooms and living rooms, look best with soft white bulbs (2,700K). Go for cozy and bright.
Leaf and snow-covered sidewalks can make a perfectly nice home look sloppy and poorly maintained. Use a leaf blower daily to keep leaves, branches, and outdoor dirt off the walkways, and do your best to keep the yard clear of leaves, too.
Place boundary markers on the snow to make it easier to the seller to envision the property.
Keep the deck shoveled and salted so buyers can walk outside to experience the space. If the climate allows, keep outdoor furniture on your patio so they can get a better feel for the outdoor living space.
A snow-man in the yard is always a nice seasonal addition!
Accessorize the main living area with neutral-but-coordinated throws and pillows and unscented candles for ambiance. Feel free to add seasonal accents, but do not over-due it: a couple of small pumpkins on the steps could help, but heavy, Halloween décor would not! If you have vaulted ceilings, a nice and tall Christmas tree can help accentuate the space. But avoid going heavy with religious decoration.
Make an impression with your gas or electric fireplace!
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Are you thinking about selling your home? Or is your house already on the market but it looks like it’s not moving? We have the eight tips you were looking for!
1- ASK THE RIGHT PRICE!
This is the most important point, yet the hardest to apply for many. It is normal: it is very difficult to distinguish between the real value, and the emotional value. What the property actually is and where the market is at the moment are important factors to define your home’s value. All the memories your home is tied to, don’t. You might still like your carpet, and you cherished it so well…but if you connect it with memories on how your now freshman son had his first baby steps on it… That says it: whoever is going to buy, is going to change it first thing! So, try to be objective, and listen to your agent’s suggestions!
2- MAKE A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION!
We should make our first impression be our best one! Above all when we are talking about real estate. The first view of your home is going to be of the outside, so boost up your curb appeal. This is often "an easy fixing” and can be done on the cheap: some landscaping, a fresh coat of paint, clean windows. You are not going to regret it!
3- DE-PERSONALIZE!
This also contributes to make a good first impression of the inside! You are trying to convince the buyers that this is going to be their dream home. The best way to do so is to help them imagining themselves living in it! That’s why all your family portraits, children’s drawings and personal touches won’t help. You also must consider that everybody’s taste is different, so do not over do it with eccentric or too particular pieces of furniture or choices of color. Keep it neutral, and the buyers will imagine how they would make it their own…and fall in love with it!
4- DE-CLUTTER!
For the same reasons above, declutter as much as possible. It might be a worthy investment to rent a storage unit for a bit so to empty your house as much as you can. Nothing on countertops and tables, try to have your closets just half way full (or better, half empty!), remove that extra chair around the dining table and the extra-comfy but bulky armchair from the living room. This will help your house to look more spacious, and again the buyers to imagine how they would fill it with their own things.
5- EVERYTHINNG SPOTLESS!
Another thing you will not regret is to hire a professional cleaning of your home before to put it on the market. I don’t mean to undermine you and your cleaning skills, I mean all the windows, in and out, the carpet steamed and freshened up, and everything from the garage to the ceiling must be sparkling clean.
6- FIX THE MAJOR PROBLEMS FIRST!
I am not talking about renovation. There’s no need to spend $35,000 in a new kitchen. I am talking about the water damage on the bathroom’s ceiling or below the hot tub, the mold in the garage, the water dripping from the shower’s faucet. Anything that could have the buyers thinking that there might be something else behind that “little problem”… You do not want the buyers to suspect that your property might have unexpected and unpleasant surprises, so fix them first.
7- ADVERTISEMENT!
Buyers choose which houses to go see upon having seeing pictures and description. A good agent will provide you with the best of both. Professional pictures are important to enhance your home and appeal to potential buyers to come and see for themselves. A well written description must mention all the buyers are looking for. An expert agent can enhance all the pros and potentially minimize the cons with solutions, and really put your house out there for the buyers to see! Of course, sometimes there are some things you and your agent will just have to overcome, like bad location or poor flor plan. An expert agent will help you to best handle those problems.
8- NEVER, EVER BE PRESENT WHILE YOUR HOME IS BEING SHOWN!
Buyers want to feel free to snoop inside closets or to ask awkward questions, and they won’t feel at ease to do so with you present. Let your agent do the job, while you go out, relax and enjoy yourself!
...When it comes to energy efficiency, look for smart features and expertise to help you save energy and money and add value to your home.
If the home you buy is simply too large for you or your family’s needs or plans, you stand a good chance of wasting energy through excessive heating and cooling costs. If it’s too small, you’ll feel cramped and uncomfortable. It’s a big investment, so seek balance and buy it “right” from the outset.
And especially the refrigerator, as it alone contributes about 10 percent of the energy use in a home. Also, unplug electronics not in use or turn off power strips to avoid phantom charges.
Lighting accounts for about 6 percent of an energy bill each year.
You can always upgrade your heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system as well as your thermal envelope, which includes insulation, windows, and doors and the seals or weather stripping around them. Visit energy.gov/energytips for more tips.
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