For first-time sellers, selling a home can be a stressful and emotionally challenging endeavor full of many tough twists and turns. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the process and make mistakes while you’re trying to make the sale. So today, let’s take a look at some of the most common mistakes people make when selling their homes, and how you can avoid them!

  • Not Hiring an Agent
  • Not Staging Your Maryland Home
  • Lack of Listing Photos
  • Setting the Wrong Price for Your Maryland home
  • Becoming Too Emotional
  • Not Having the Proper Insurance
  • Selling to Unqualified Buyers

Not Hiring an Agent

The real estate market in Maryland is always fluctuating, so you’ll want an experienced realtor to help you along with the process and get the most for your home. A good agent always has your best interests in mind and will help you set a fair, competitive selling price for your home. An agent can also help ease the more stressful parts of the process by dealing with potential buyers and eliminating people who are just “lookers” and aren’t really interested in buying.

Not Staging Your Maryland Home

Did you know that staged homes earn 6.9% more money than non-staged homes and can take half the time to sell? When potential buyers visit your property, you want to do everything you can to make sure your home looks its best. Take some time to polish your home’s interior by addressing subtle issues like fixing any paint chips and switching out any burnt-out lightbulbs. You can also make some larger changes as well like arranging your furniture in a way that accentuates the best features of your home. Remember: you will never get a second chance to make a first impression, so don’t underestimate how important this step is!

Lack of Listing Photos

The most effective thing you can do to market your home is to have professional photos of your home. With the way buyers use the internet to search for homes, photos will be the first thing that grabs their attention, and if you don’t have any photos, it will be harder for buyers to imagine themselves living there. Photos should be crisp, clear, and well lit, showcasing your home’s best attributes. You might want to look into hiring a professional home photographer in Maryland to help you with this part of the process.

Setting the Wrong Price For Your Maryland Home

One of the most common mistakes people make when they try to sell their homes without an agent is overpricing. Agents use a comparative marketing analysis to help find a price for your home based on what similar homes in the area are selling for. From there, they may use strategic price points to make your home’s price more enticing to sellers. Don’t worry if your home is set at a slightly lower price than you want, since this may attract multiple offers and bid the price to fair market value as buyers compete with each other. Plus, if you sell with Reynolds EmpowerHome Team, Your Price is Our Promise®. We will get you 100 percent of your asking price, or we will pay the difference. Click HERE to learn more.

Becoming Too Emotional

Understandably, many sellers have a hard time keeping their emotions in check when it’s time to say goodbye to their beloved home. It’s important to think of yourself as a business person or salesperson rather than a homeowner during the process. If you can look at the transaction as purely financial, you can distance yourself from the emotions of selling and reduce the overall stress that comes with selling a home.

Not Having the Proper Insurance

As a seller, it’s important to have proper insurance in case someone has an accident at your home while viewing it and tries to sue you for the damages. Get rid of obvious hazards to your property and take steps to prevent accidents before anyone gets hurt. If there’s snow or ice on your driveway, definitely take the time to have it cleared before anyone visits your home!

Selling to Unqualified Buyers

Whenever you sell your home to someone, it’s good to make sure they’re pre-approved or have proof of funds before you hand over the keys to your largest asset. Otherwise, you run the risk of finding yourself in a tough bind and losing money. Luckily, Reynolds EmpowerHome Team has a state-of-the-art database of over 15,179 pre-approved Buyers in Waiting in the Maryland area. When you list with us, we will leverage our extensive database to get you top-dollar for your home, selling FASTER and FOR MORE.

If you are considering selling your home there is no one better than Reynolds EmpowerHome Team. We can help you sell FASTER and for TOP DOLLAR! Selling a home can be stressful, especially when your home sits on the market. We sell our listings 3 times faster and on average, for more than when you work with another team by leveraging our database of OVER 15,179 qualified buyers in our Buyers in Waiting database! 

Did you know that only 48% of homes that went on the market last year sold the first time with the first agent they hired? Most sellers last year had to call a 2nd or 3rd agent to get the job done, or even worse, not sell at all. The agent you hire the first time matters! Reynolds EmpowerHome Team sells 98% of our listings the first time, so when you hire us, your home is more likely to sell fast & for top dollar! To find out what we can do for you, Text or Call us at 301-769-7951!

Your Home Sold for 100% of the Asking Price or We Will Pay You the Difference!* Click HERE for more details.