Are You Prepared to Sell Your Home in Sacramento?

Knowing that you are prepared to sell your home in Sacramento involves letting go emotionally.

Are you wondering if you’re prepared to sell your home in Sacramento? If so, you’ve come to the right place. We prepare for everything in life, don’t we? For example, right now, the state of Hawaii is preparing to be bombed by North Korea. I’m not kidding. Even in Kailua-Kona the authorities are sounding the sirens and testing them, just in case. The advice they give residents is: stay inside. Like, how is that gonna help?

People are complaining to the newspaper that they can’t hear the testing of the sirens. Seriously? If North Korea bombs us, it doesn’t much matter where you are or what you are doing, you’re a goner. We can prepare for other things like vog, which is volcanic air pollution drifting through the air or, worse, an erupting volcano. It’s not like Vesuvius and we’ll be covered in lava like statues as we’re pulling bread out of the oven. There is time, usually, to get out of the way of molten lava flows.

By comparison, getting prepared to sell your home in Sacramento is far easier. To cut to the chase, you can follow these basic steps:

1. Call your Sacramento Realtor to inspect your home.
2. Review the comparative market analysis and discuss the market with your Realtor.
3. Clean the house and remove furniture or call in a home stager.
4. Your Realtor, if she’s on top of her game, will hire a professional photographer and schedule a photo shoot.
5. You will sign paperwork, hand over a key for the Supra lockbox.

But are you prepared to sell your home in Sacramento? That’s the key. You can go through the motions, but you also need to be mentally prepared to sell. You need a place to move to because, believe it or not, the buyer will want to move in, and the buyer doesn’t want a roommate.

Here are some questions to ask yourself to find out if you are prepared to sell your home in Sacramento:

• Have you said goodbye, in person, to each of your rooms?
• Are you looking at your home as a commodity and not with sadness or fondness?
• Are you ready to move within 30 days of an offer, which could mean over the next 5 to 6 weeks? It can take a week or two to sell your home.
• Have you come to terms with leaving fixtures behind or removing fixtures prior to sale? Some people are very attached to their light fixtures or dishwashers, both of which are fixtures.
• What kind of plans do you have for removing pets during showings?
• Are you able to leave the house on Sundays for an open house?
• How many people have you shared the news with that you are moving, or is it a secret still?

Many people who want to sell a home in Sacramento struggle with some of these questions, which is why I bring them up. If you’re not ready to sell, there is no rush. We work within your schedule. It’s not a crime to tell your Realtor you are not ready. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759 and put 43 years of experience to work for you.