Category: For Sale By Owner

Real Estate Agent Can't Sell This Beautiful Home With No Equity

Real Estate Case Study: Beautiful Home Just Won’t Sell

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Hi Emily, Quick note here to let you know how much we’ve enjoyed working with you.  When we first got together with you we’d had our house on the market with a realtor and were kicking ourselves for not having gotten our house sold.  Even though we didn’t have much equity in the place, it … Continued

7 Fun Ideas For Selling Your House in Seattle

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Selling your house in Seattle doesn’t have to be all hard work and seriousness with a good measure of nail-biting anxiety. But no longer is an open house with a freshly baked batch of cookies and some fresh-cut flowers enough to do the job. In today’s markets, you have to get a little inventive, maybe … Continued

How To Price Your House To Sell in Lake Forest Park, WA

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Price Your House To Sell: If you want your house to sell for top dollar, that doesn’t always mean using a super-aggressive pricing strategy. Real estate experts agree that the single most important consideration for selling your house is pricing it right. Besides having to be aligned with the prices of similar homes in the … Continued

Secret Agent Hacks For A Fast Sale in Seattle

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What does your real estate broker actually “DO” to get your Seattle-area home sold quickly? Being a good real estate broker largely comes down to being excellent at a variety of specific skills. One of those is marketing. The “Agent Hacks” in this article are marketing tricks and techniques we use (and you should be … Continued
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Real Estate Case Study: Selling As-Is After A Divorce

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September 20, 2004 If you are considering selling your house to Emily Cressey, I say go for it!  I called her when I needed help and she did exactly what I asked. I don’t know if you have a problem property on your hands, but that’s how I felt about my house when I learned … Continued

Benefits of Hiring An Agent Over vs. FSBO in Seattle

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Here is the dirty little secret most real estate agents won’t tell you: Many homsellers wonder, “What are the benefits of hiring an agent vs. just doing For Sale By Owner myself?” Maybe your internal monologue looks something like this, “Do I really need a real estate agent? They make so much money, and it … Continued
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5 Ways to Make Your Old House Look New Again in Seattle

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Maybe you’ve been in your home for several years now, and it’s, well, just looking a little tired. So now you want to make it look newer and fresher and maybe increase its value at the same time. But you don’t have the cash for a major remodel or housewide renovations. You can, though, do … Continued