I want to sell my house -  so where do I  start? Well let's get into this topic so
  you can sell your house as quickly as  possible.
  So I want to sell my house - where do I start? Perhaps a new addition to the family, you need another
  room, maybe the kids have gone off to  university and it's time to begin to
  downsize. Well as these changes have come about in your life and you're
  considering the next step, the first step  you need to take is to make sure you get
  a good realtor to help you in this  process. There are a number of ways you
  can go about this. One way is you can ask  a friend or a family member that has
  dealt with a realtor recently and go  with a referral like this, another way is
  just to call a few of them and interview  them and just see if there's a good
  connection between you all,  but whatever  you decide and however you go about this
  process, it is important that the realtor  you find is a realtor who can
  aggressively market your home. Now you  can put it on an MLS which is a multi
  listing service,  your Realtor will help  you do that, that's not a problem, we will
  all do that and just wait for the right  kind of traffic to come across this and
  there you go, you'll find somebody that  may be willing to put down what you want
  or enter into negotiation for that house  that you're selling. But if you find a
  realtor who does more than this, a  realtor who aggressively markets the
  house with various forms of media,  that  house is going to sell, and it's going to be
  at the top of the pile and getting more  traffic than homes that are just listed
  and using the old school method just  waiting for traffic to go by and
  hopefully you'll find somebody who will  match up with the property well. So
  choose wisely, make sure that you have a  realtor who can do good marketing for
  your home. So once you find your realtor  it's important to spend some time to
  speak to your realtor about your home  and how you can better present that home.
  You know today many people watch real  estate programs on HGTV and various
  other stations and of course their  expectations as a result are very very
  high. Also many go to new builds and in those
  new build sites they have model homes  and these homes are done immaculately so
  obviously their expectations are very  very high. But if you take the time to
  just walk through your home with your  realtor, this can be very helpful, if you
  do an assessment room by room you'll  know exactly what to take care of and
  this doesn't necessarily mean that  you'll have to break the bank in order
  to do expensive remodeling or expensive  staging of your home. Just taking a
  little bit of time to take care of this  in a good way with your realtor can make
  all the world of difference and get that  home sold right away! In the description
  to this video you'll find a link to our  PDF on 'How to Prepare Your Home for a
  Successful Sale', this will really help  you with this step. Remember, it's very
  difficult to change a first impression. One of the most important things to get
  right is the pricing. Pricing your home  right will determine whether or not it
  is sold quickly or it sits on the market. The pricing of your home must reflect
  the true market value. You know today many people have access
  to a lot of applications that help them  see what's on the market in a particular
  area, to know the homes that are there  and what they're being sold for, so it's
  important that you do a little homework  yourself, get informed of the market area
  where your home is located, find out how  much the homes are being sold for in
  that area, but most importantly here is  where you're agent, your
  Realtor is so important. You know your  Realtor is very informed of the market
  area, I mean this is what they do for a  living day to day, they will be able to
  get the home priced right. That price  will reflect the true market value of
  the home and this will position the home  for a quick sale. If your home is sitting
  way too long on the market, what's going  to happen is that a prospective buyer is
  going to start to think, hey what's wrong  with this house, why isn't it selling
  and these questions are going to really  cause traffic to diminish. Research shows
  that between the third and sixth week of the marketing process that's when the most
  potential buyers are attracted,  so it is  important that, first your home has the
  right pricing and second that there is  good aggressive marketing behind it. You
  want to maximize traffic that's going  to view your home, draw them in to visit
  the home and put an offer on that home. As I mentioned earlier, the visual
  presentation of your home is very very  important. You know first impressions are
  very very hard to undo so you always  want to create the best possible first
  impression. For this reason I don't recommend that you do mobile phone
  pictures. Get a realtor who is going to  do professional quality pictures. You
  know today on search engines when people are looking at multi listing services
  and they're viewing the pictures, usually  when a picture is presented if it's of
  poor quality they're probably only going to view
  the first few pictures and they're gonna  move on to the next property, and this is
  something you don't want to happen to  your property. Getting good quality
  pictures will keep them glued to that  screen and they can really consider your
  house the way it should be considered,   and actually today even video production
  is a very important part of the  marketing process, so if your realtor is
  able to produce a video for you, this is  ideal. You know this will really maximize
  the amount of eyes that will be looking  at your property and considering it for
  the next purchase. When it comes to  marketing your home, gone are the old
  days of sitting in the backseat of your  real estate agents car or following
  along behind and looking at multi homes. Today the Internet has changed the whole
  experience for good. Today people are on  multi listing services, they are also
  watching videos that are aggressively  being marketed through social media, so
  it is important that you're estate agent, your Realtor
  is up-to-date with all the modern modes  of marketing, so make sure you make this
  one of your criteria in choosing your  estate agent. That way the right kind of
  marketing will be put forth and you'll  have maximum exposure of your home and
  really entice those buyers to come and  put an offer on your home and get it
  sold quickly. If you found this video  helpful, please subscribe, we'd love to
  have you on board with us, we have a lot  of helpful videos coming out that will
  have information that you'll find useful  whether you're a buyer or you're
  interested in selling property. Also  share this with a friend and leave a
  comment in the comment section, also if  you'd like to call me, call me at the
  number that you see below, I'd love to  hear from you and talk property with you,
  also remember that there is a PDF there  on 'How to Prepare Your Home for a Successful
  Sale', anyway, until next time, all the best!