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A $100,000 Home Selling Mistake!

When I was buying my first home in Toronto, the selling Realtor made a mistake that almost cost the sellers $100,000.  It is one of the reasons I got into Real Estate and created the Home Sale System, so that other people don’t fall afoul of home selling mistakes like this one. Realtors have a lot of skills and training but they are not valuation professionals. Since pricing is one of the most important  parts of selling a home, this means that mistakes can be made – mistakes that could cost you tens of thousands of dollars if you are selling your home. This is what happened when I went to see a Townhouse in Toronto.  The selling Realtor had valued the home based on the previous sales in the neighbourhood. However, what they had not factored in was the current market conditions and how different the market was since the previous sale (which had been almost 2 years before). With my background being in finance and building financial models, I had created my own valuation ...

Top 5 Modern Home Advertising Techniques

In the past, advertising your home was a lot more difficult than it is today.  Newspaper ads or magazine listings were the best method of reaching people.  Word-of-mouth was your best friend too. Nowadays, especially with the growth of the internet on mobile phones, there are more modern home sale advertising techniques that work great.   However, they are not quite as easy as the methods of old! This is why using people familiar with modern home sale advertising techniques is crucial in selling your home. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people don’t really know how to take advantage of modern home sale advertising techniques.​Here are our top 5 modern advertising techniques explained for you: 1.  A Mobile Responsive Website For those of you not familiar with the concept of ‘mobile responsive’, it means that the website is easily read on a mobile phone.  To do this, the site will probably have to look very different to the main desktop version. This is by ...

A $100,000 Home Selling Mistake!

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Top 5 Modern Home Advertising Techniques

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How To Sell Your Home Fast

How To Sell Your Home Fast Do you often wonder why some houses can have a number of showings after its first week on the market, and similar ones seems to be left with no attention?  The reason is that there are inside tricks to selling your home fast. A quick sell of a house is common enough to be expected by home sellers, but rare enough to remain a phenomenon in the market. It’s really a question of readiness – the houses being sold quickly are more well prepared to accept a new resident. Surely price and location is the major reason a house can appeal to home buyers, but there’s also more than meets the buyer’s eye. Here are some quick sell tips to make sure your house reaches that contract as soon as possible. 1.  Get Professional Help.   Yes, this sounds obvious and like we’re plugging our services.  But you are not a home selling expert or professional.  The idea that you can jump into a profession decades old and master it so quickly that you...

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4 Home Selling Myths

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4 Home Selling Myths

There are some myths in the real estate industry that we see people taken by time and time again. Much like any falsities, these “myths” can almost bear a truth to them because people tend to believe in them so strongly. A good place to get some perspective if from your real estate professional – so if you give us your trust for a moment, here are some myths busted that could change how you see home selling. Myth 1: The best time to sell your home is in the spring or summer. Myth Busted: While this may hold some truth for families with kids planning to purchase a home around the school year schedule for the sake of moving, this doesn’t hold up when it comes to the majority of homebuyers. People buy and sell houses all year round, and the winter or fall is just as good a time to sell your home as the spring or summer. The thing to consider here is that there are many types of homebuyers that may be interested in your home. Investors, young professionals, retirees, and so on. Sell your ...