What To Look For In A Realtor?

The following are a couple of factors to keep in mind when looking for a listing agent:

Education:  Possibly the most important thing to consider is their real estate education.  Our professionals have advanced training and education that allow us to identify and resolve issues that have the potential to derail your transaction.  

Experience and Expertise: You want a full-time agent who’s an expert in your area and property type.  They should have experience selling properties like yours and can deploy a wide-ranging marketing strategy for your property that can reach the appropriate target buyers.  

Availability and Commitment: Your agent should be as committed to selling your property. Ask these questions:

• Does your agent make it a point to stay connected with you constantly? 

• Can your agent easily be contacted in case of emergencies?  

• Do they get annoyed at answering questions? 

• Is your agent available on the weekends or in the evenings when most buyers are out looking?

How Does Your Agent Get Results?

This is where the Sell South Florida Team truly stands out. Our concierge business model comes alongside sellers to prepare their listings. We have an in-house staging company and a complementary staging refresh comes standard on every listing. 

Once we’ve positioned your property to its optimal appeal, our expert marketing and negotiation strategies guarantee you an extraordinary outcome. 

All of this occurs within our professional communication framework. it’s a commitment to excellent listing services that ensure our clients always ”win with us”.

Things to keep in mind as you prepare to sell your property:

Curb Appeal

Simple things such as keeping your landscaping neatly trimmed and adding small touches to your yard, such as colorful flowers, will create an immediate impact on potential buyers.

Property Repairs

Simple upgrades such as window screen repairs, polishing doorknobs, and a fresh coat of paint in the most frequently used rooms will instantly improve the property.

Cleanliness and Staging

Keep every room of your home uncluttered and well-lit.  Pay attention to the small details: put away kitty litter, place a vase of fresh flowers near the entryway, have your carpets cleaned, and on open house day, put a batch of cookies in the oven.  Before the property is listed for sale, your realtor will inspect the property to see how staging can help maximize your selling price.

Disclosures and Inspections

Realtors understand the legal procedures involved with real estate disclosures and are ready to help you develop a comprehensive disclosure statement that will be beneficial to you as well as the buyer. They can also suggest home improvement measures that need to be completed that, if left untreated, could decrease your selling price and create complications at closing. 

Sell South Florida Team budgets and coordinate for specific improvements. Connect with us for a custom listing plan and learn what the Sell South Florida Team can do for you.

Understanding the contract and its potential implications is crucial to your success. we are your advocate for the sales process and will present all offers with recommendations as to a buyer's qualifications and ability to honor terms.

Our priority is to protect your time and energy while honoring your goals. We use our experience to navigate potential frustrations and will take every action to coach you on available opportunities.

Hiring a well-respected, and well-connected agent can be your biggest advantage while negotiating offers. Positive relationships lay the foundation for securing the terms most important to your success.

Escrow Inspection and Appraisal

The escrow money will become the seller only if the buyer violates the approved contract terms, and all parties agree to the release. on escrow, it’s best it’s a large enough amount to ensure the buyer's appropriate actions.

Inspections

The buyer is encouraged to perform due diligence and may cancel the contract without consequence during the inspection.

If the buyer makes requests that are likely to recur with another buyer, it may be in your best interest to perform the repairs and keep the contract moving forward. This is almost always the case for repairs mandated for insurance. 

Some buyers will also ask for additional credits or action, it is entirely up to the seller, whether to agree or allow the contract to cancel. An agent will advise on the ease of meeting the request, or if it is, in fact, better to go to a backup offer.

Appraisal

If the buyer is getting along, just secure the property, the banquet insists that the purchase price and contract terms are within fair market value. The listing agent must meet the appraiser and advocate for the sales price.

The Sell South Florida Team is extraordinary in advocating for appraisal values because they are experts in reading market data and pricing homes appropriately. The seller ultimately decides the price, but we love to price at the upper limit of what a home could appraise for and position all marketing to encourage buyers to engage at that peak level. This is how we confidently and repeatedly shatter sales records.

Closing 

Sellers can go to the title company and sign closing documents before the actual closing day. This is helpful, as many sellers are working up until the day before closing to remove all personal property from the home and leave it in broom-swept condition.

Sellers must leave utilities on throughout the closing day, as the property condition must be confirmed at the final walk-through. 

Once the buyer signs, the title company will disperse the seller’s proceeds. Sellers can expect the wire of funds to be initiated by title on closing day and funds should show up in their account by the end of the following business day.