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2018-10-01 22:37:50
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Everyone prefers to buy from a private seller to save the commission. But how big is the effort really when selling a house currently? I don’t have time to funnel a huge number of interested parties through and constantly answer emails. On the other hand, I can of course sell the house better since I know it inside out.
Five years ago we sold a house, which was a popular terraced house in our area. The houses sell there at roughly the same price, for example to tenants from the same area, but also to young families as well as older couples. We even had a detached single-family house, I am a part-time real estate photographer. So we funneled through a total of 30 couples and singles with companions every evening over two weeks starting in the late afternoon. That was a exhausting and tough time. We handed out sheets with the house’s ancillary costs to everyone. After two weeks, only sporadic emails from interested parties came, otherwise a few second visits. The phone stayed silent for a while. In the end, we felt that only we wanted something from others...
How can I protect myself against “rubberneckers”? How would you approach this? Of course, I want to show the house mostly to genuinely interested people, not only to curious ones who have always wanted to know how it looks inside. How can I protect myself against someone backing out on the way to the notary?
You can’t. A tip: don’t believe that your house is so important to others who have no interest. It may be that the house in your focus is the ultimate, but others also have their own lives which they do not spice up with house visits. Maybe one will be, but rather you have to expect that interested parties will also look at other houses. They don’t even have to be interested in your area. It could be that they work 30 km away and normally look on the completely other side. Also, buyers like to see one or two more houses just to have comparisons. When we searched (before the internet, so with newspaper ads), we took everything. Everything!
I don’t know if really what we imagine will be paid (market value according to Immoscout).
These calculators should be treated with caution. You can make your house a dust collector on the market with the wrong price expectation – then it means: patiently taking the house off the portal and staying quiet for three months.
Never underestimate the work of a broker :D And advertising photos are also made according to psychological aspects ;)
I believe there is a book about selling one’s own house.