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This is the third post in a three blog series. Learn more on mistakes to avoid while selling a house, visit: Part 1 and Part 2.

Perceptions, or rather, your emotionally-based feelings about your property can be a huge contributor in making or breaking a sale. But those are not the only mistakes people make.

Here are a couple more popular errors that many homeowners commit. If you want to sell your house fast, you need to pay attention to them too…

5. Making the House Inaccessible

Buying a house is an expensive purchase, and it is highly unlikely a potential buyers will buy a home they did not visit at least once. You want your home well exposed and accessible in the market. Decide whether or not you hold an open house or not.

A reliable real-estate company like our sister-concern Express Realty Services will ensure that people visiting your house have gone through pre-approval and will see your house without disturbing your schedule.

6. Making your own marketing decisions

Preparing your house for a sale is very important, however one of the critical things that can get you to a closing is often neglected – How you market your home for a sale. Do you have a marketing plan in place to reach out to potential buyers?

Have your efforts to market your home borne fruit? Leave it to the experts at Express Homebuyer...

How successful are your efforts to market your home? Are you attracting true potential buyers or just a stream of looky-loos? If you want to sell you home fast, leave it to the experts at Express Homebuyers. We believe in quality service, so we spend close to a million dollars per year attracting the right buyers for our clients’ homes.

From listing to closing, we promote your home both online and offline. In the past five years we’ve sold over 800 homes within the DC metro area. We can help you list your house for sale. We sell homes fast. If we can’t sell your house in 60 days, we guarantee to buy it from you, no matter what the condition.

This series will be continued. For more insight on what mistakes to avoid while selling your house, continue to read our blogs.

If you have any tips or suggestions that you’d like to share, please feel free to comment on this blog post.

This is the first post in a four blog series. For a heads-up on mistakes to avoid while selling a house, visit: Part 2 and Part 3.

Selling a house can be an easy task. It’s the one-size-fits-all approach that could mislead you from doing what’s right for your property. Your property is unique and though you want to gauge your market, your area and your neighborhood, it isn’t always wise to do exactly what every other seller on your street is doing!

Here are some questions that you need to answer to check if you’re doing the right things for your house:

Clear away clutter and depersonalize your home to attract more buyers and sell your house fast.

1. Overestimating the Value

Know what home buyers are looking for. Do your own research. Often sellers look at other houses on their street, and set the home price on structural similarities. A three-bedroom-two-bath home with a hot tub Jacuzzi in the master bathroom and a fully upgraded kitchen is bound to sell for a higher price than a regular three-bedroom-two-bath.

If you decide to sell your house as is, you want to take some of common factors into consideration. Some critical features that buyers have been looking for include: location, neighborhood and community, structural design and size, number of bedrooms/bathrooms, special amenities, availability of schools, privacy and other facilities. Some things are not in your control, but there are areas that can we worked upon.

2. Underestimating the Competition

Your property may be one-of-a-kind, but if a buyer has come to see your house, chances are that they will also check out the other available houses on your street. It’s not a bad idea to go out and investigate all the comparable prices of houses in your area and neighborhood. It’s time well-invested.

How Unique is your House?

Better still; hire an appraiser who would have done your homework for you. They will be able to point out problem areas or asset depreciators that have come in the way of a good sale. Sometimes, just fixing or upgrading a few things in your house could raise its value by a huge amount.

Have you been trying to sell your house for a while now? Think you need professional help to sell yours fast? Express Homebuyers is here for that very reason does just that! In the past five years we’ve sold over 800 homes within the DC metro area. We can help you list your house for sale. If we can’t sell your house in 60 days, we guarantee to buy it from you, no matter what the condition.

Just call us at 877-804-5252 or visit our website to chat with a representative.

This series will be continued. For more insight on what mistakes to avoid while selling your house, continue to read our blogs.

If you have any tips or suggestions that you’d like to share, please feel free to comment on this blog post.