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Tis The Season...... To Sell Your Home?

November 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM · Posted under Pat Tasker

At this time of year, many people think it would be a waste of time to list your home for sale. “Homes don’t sell this time of year” many people will say to me. Contrary to that popular thinking, homes sell ALL YEAR LONG.

While it may be true that LESS homes may sell between Thanksgiving and New Years, HOMES STILL SELL!! One year, during the week of Christmas, I sold a 6 homes! If those sellers had not been ON THE MARKET, they certainly would not have sold!

Some facts that show it is a good time to list your home:

Your home looks the best when decorated for the Holidays….it is clean, it is festive, it is inviting! What great conditions for a buyer to see and more importantly FEEL.
Holiday decorating creates that emotional tug on the buyers heartstrings. They will feel at home and have a warm fuzzy feeling…they will want to live there!
The house smells good! Cookies are baking…leave some out for the buyers to snack on, they will hang around just a little longer, “trying on the house”!
While there may be less traffic than other months or seasons, the buyers who do come through, will be pretty serious buyers. Looky-lous are not out kicking tires this time of year…they are holiday shopping!
Out of towners may be visiting relatives for the holidays, and available to look for homes. Transferees will take advantage of school breaks for househunting trips.
If you get a request to show your home, and you are entertaining friends that day, don’t turn down the showing! Instead, ask them to come right before the company comes…the house will be ready and look great! How perfect for buyers to see that!

If you wait until spring to get on the market, you will be joined by hundreds of others who thought buyers don’t buy during the holidays. If you get on the market NOW, you could be in your new home by spring!

Santa’s Elves aren’t the only ones working this time of year! For information on selling your home and taking advantage of the Holiday Magic, call Pat Tasker at 262-437-5853 for a no obligation marketing consultation!

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