How to sell your home for top dollar.

1. Use a Realtor. Keep reading a minute.  Yes USE a Realtor®!  Recent statistics reveal that Realtor® sold homes sell for an average of 17% more than homes sold buy owner without Realtors®.

2. Use the RIGHT Realtor®.  Anyone who can get you in the MLS gives you some advantage, but experience is gold.  Anyone who has sold many homes knows nightmare stories.  It costs a lot to have deals fall through, to pay closing costs you shouldn't, to have lenders fumble, bumble, close late, give you worthless loan commitment letters with contingencies you and your green agent don't even see.

3. Price your house right and use the right style.  Most agents like to price low so buyers worry that someone else will buy first.  In good and bad markets both this often results in "bidding up."  Bidding so if multiple offers come theirs is the highest.

4. Plan B is price high.  You need to ask the question: do you want to bid up or be bid down.  Many buyers expect to be bid down and actually end up with less money.

5. High Traffic, top price:  You can ask for the high end if your agent is able to generate a lot of traffic.  This is often the right choice.  But it requires money.  Lots of advertising, agent tours, effort that surpasses sticking a sign up and waiting for buyer agents.  Most buyers use the internet.  Our web system gets 4,000 users per month.  That is where I would want to be.

Call me, Jon Gosche at 208-870-7115 and I will give you a lot more insight, ideas and I will pick the right agent specially for you to help you get top dollar for your home.