The Usual Way to Sell Your Home
If you've never sold a house through the conventional realty process, here's how it usually begins.
You start by trying to find an agent you trust, who will present you with an analysis of comparable properties in Humble and help you determine a good asking price for your home. You'll then work together to decide what repairs and updates are worth making to increase your home's appeal to potential buyers (and also which ones are unlikely to produce enough of a return on investment). Next, your realtor will advise you on how to stage your home for showings, which includes decluttering and organizing, as well as removing items that very personally identify the house with you. Some people hire a professional to assist with this step. |
And the final part of the preliminary stage is for the agent to list your home on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), a platform that real estate professionals use to market their properties. It's also likely to be listed on publicly available websites (Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, etc.) for the world to see. At this point, anyone in Humble interested in buying a home like yours should be able to find it.
Then, you hope for the best.
If all goes well, you'll get an offer at or above your asking price within the first week or two. Maybe as soon as five weeks later, you'll leave the house after a wonderful selling experience.
That's the hope. But the process doesn't always go according to script.
Then, you hope for the best.
If all goes well, you'll get an offer at or above your asking price within the first week or two. Maybe as soon as five weeks later, you'll leave the house after a wonderful selling experience.
That's the hope. But the process doesn't always go according to script.