Selling Your Fitzroy Home: Insider Secrets for Getting Maximum Value in Any Market

By Alex McKinnon

If you own a home in Fitzroy, don't even consider appointing a real estate agent (or selling it yourself) until you've picked up your copy of Selling Your Fitzroy Home: Insider Secrets for Getting Maximum Value in Any Market.

Inside you'll discover surprising and not often discussed tips, tactics, and how to’s that will help you sell your home for more, with way less stress, and with far greater peace of mind... guaranteed.

Here's just some of what's revealed inside...

• The 10 Most Costly Mistakes People Make When Selling Their Fitzroy Homes
• 44 Moneymaking Tips For Preparing To Sell In Fitzroy
• 12 Questions To Ask Before Hiring Any Fitzroy Real Estate Agent
• How To Sell Your Fitzroy Home For Top Dollar ... With Or Without An Agent
• Show Your Fitzroy Home Like A Model Home Without Breaking The Bank

If you want to get top dollar for your Fitzroy home, and save yourself a ton of time and stress while you’re at it, go ahead and grab your copy today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeff Gardner
• Release date: Dec 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9780994508010

Alex McKinnon

ALEX MC KINNON was born in Melbourne in 1974 and educated at Fitzroy Primary School in George Street, Fitzroy High School in Falconer Street, North Fitzroy and then at the University of Melbourne where he studied Arts and Business.Alex still lives in the area and his connection with the local community runs deep.He is a Member of the Yarra Triathlon Club, volunteer at the Yarra Community Youth Centre, and advisor to the Rose Street Artists’ Market.Alex has been helping Fitzroy home owners and people moving into the area since 2001.He’s passionate about sharing his ideas, knowledge and experience, which is why he wrote this book for Fitzroy homeowners, and produces the popular Living Life Well monthly newsletter.If you’re thinking of selling your Fitzroy home, and want to achieve maximum value with a minimum of fuss, or would like to receive the Living Life Well newsletter each month, get in touch with Alex: [e-mail]

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Selling Your Fitzroy Home: Insider Secrets for Getting Maximum Value in Any Market

By Alex McKinnon

Smashwords Edition

Copyright © Alex McKinnon 2016.

All Rights Reserved.

Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct at press time, the author and publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause.

ISBN: 978-0-9945080-1-0

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The 10 Most Costly Mistakes People Make When Selling Their Fitzroy Homes

Chapter 2: 6 Steps to Selling Your Home for Top Dollar

Chapter 3: 7 Insider Tips to Net More Money Selling Your Own Home

Chapter 4: 43 Tips Money-Saving Tips for Preparing to Sell Your Home

Chapter 5: Homes That Sell the Fastest Also Sell for the Most Money

Chapter 6: How to Sell Your Home for the Most Money the Market Will Pay, On Your Terms and Time Frame

Chapter 7: Show Your Home Like a Model Home, Without Breaking the Bank

Chapter 8: 12 Questions You Should Ask Before Hiring Any Real Estate Agent

Chapter 9: 4 Tips to Guarantee Your Home Sells the Second Time Round

Chapter 10: How to Avoid Foreclosure

About the Author

Introduction

For a lot of the big moments in life, we arrive ill-prepared with little or no prior experience, and without a road map or playbook to help us avoid the costly mistakes many have made before us.

Typically we don’t have the benefit of someone who has been through it all before to help us optimize for the best possible outcome.

Over the years, I’ve seen too many hard-working and decent home-owners, who genuinely want to sell their homes, experience unnecessary stress, difficulty, and disappointment.

Usually this was not due to someone taking advantage of them or a poor market. More often than not it was due to mispricing, sloppy marketing, or appointing the wrong sales agent.

I’ve seen people’s future plans completely derailed because of one or more of those three mistakes. And I don’t want that to happen to you. That’s why I wrote this book.

I want to share everything I know with so you can avoid the common mistakes I see happening time and time again.

Each of the chapters in this book can be read as a stand-alone nugget. That means, you can dive in wherever you like to get quick, actionable advice.

My hope is that you’ll discover at least a few actionable tips here that will help you become a more informed home seller, if and when you ever decide to sell your home in Fitzroy.

If that day comes, naturally I’d be delighted to continue the conversation and help you out with that if I can, or at least offer my recommendation in the event I’m not the right person for the job.

In the meantime, let’s keep in touch via my monthly Living Life Well newsletter, tips for home owners email series, and market update alerts.

Just let me know where to post or email your Living Life Well newsletter and I’ll make sure you get on the priority distribution list.

All the best,

P.S. If you have family or a friend who could use a free copy of this book, just send me an email at [e-mail] and let me know where to mail it, and I’ll get a copy to them pronto.

Chapter 1: The 10 Most Costly Mistakes People Make When Selling Their Fitzroy Homes

This first chapter is intended to help you avoid some of the most common mistakes homeowners make when preparing to sell their home.

Mistake #1 – Not Properly Preparing Your Home for Sale

It’s essential to make sure your home looks as good as it possibly can before being viewed by potential buyers.

Poor property presentation usually means a lower selling price because buyers instinctively mark down the value of poorly presented homes.

Property presentation includes things like a repaint of certain areas, de-cluttering, small maintenance jobs, cleaning windows, walls, and other surfaces, and creating as much space and light as possible in your home.

Mistake #2 – Choosing the Agent Who Quotes You the Highest Estimated Selling Price

All too frequently we see homeowners tricked into appointing the wrong agent because that agent quoted the highest estimated selling price for a property… a completely false and excessive market price estimate that’s unsupported by recent sales evidence.

This is called Buying the Listing.

It happens a lot, and it’s an easy trap to fall for.

I often see homes selling for way under their true market price because the property went to market with too high a price to start with. As a result, the home just sat there for ages unsold, eventually going stale, and then selling for less than it was really worth.

I don’t want that to happen to you.

You can avoid this trap by making sure your intended agent justifies their estimated selling price by showing you solid evidence of recent directly comparable sales and listings of similar properties currently for sale.

It’s important for you to ask for and receive this information. And then study it carefully.

Take the time to drive by all the recently sold properties, and physically inspect properties that are on the market. They will be your competition so you need to know what you’re up against and what your potential buyers will be viewing.

Get informed. It’s important.

Your job is to make sure that whatever price you put on your property, it is the best property available at that price. The objective is to make your property, that is to say, your offer to the market, the most compelling choice available.

You need to be competitive to get your property sold. What you are offering to the market needs to be compelling. It has to stand out and be seen to get sold.

If you suspect that an agent is trying to buy your business by quoting you