Keeping business and friendship in line when selling your home.
 by: Robert Earl

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In today’s real estate market, there are many options you can choose to sell your home. You can hire a full service real estate agent to list your home and sell it for you with a commission from 6 to 7% of the sale price. You can hire a flat fee listing agent, or do for sale by owner, or lease option.

If you are trying to decide whether to hire a full service real estate agent to sell your home, here are 8 important factors to consider.

1. What is the housing market conditions?
In a very hot market, everything sells so fast and probably don’t need a full service realtor to sell your home. But, in today’s buyer’s market, an experienced full service realtor and high performer may help a little.

2. Are you in hurry to sell?
You cannot afford to waste any of your time on for sale by owner if you are in a hurry to sell your home, especially you don’t have enough experience to sell a home.

3. Do you have any experience selling a home and have you ever spent some time studying a very good home selling guide from A to Z?
Selling a home is a job of the trained professional’s. It takes a lot of knowledge, experience, time, effects, and comments. If you have never sold a house and have never read a good home selling guide, you are not ready to sell your home yet. If you don’t want to hire a full service realtor, at least read some good home selling guide.You can also read all of my blogs at http://besthomesellingtips.com and subscribe my free eBook on how to sell your home like a pro.

4. It your time better spent not to answer the phone calls from many unqualified buyers?
Once your home is on the market, you try to get as many as potential to call you to increase your chance for success. If you believe that your valuable time cannot be justified to answer many calls from unqualified buyers, then you should list with a full service realtor.

5. Is home showing a problem for you?
Different situations could make your home showing a problem. Especially if security and crime are the issues to you, then you may want to hire a realtor.

6. Is your home a high end one or luxury home?
People buying high-end homes usually use a specialized real estate agent and most of them don’t go online to search homes to search for sale by owner.

7. Do you like or hate to negotiate with others on whatever deals?
Some people enjoy the process of bargaining and negotiation. While others hate it. If your skin is too thin to negotiate, then you probably should hire a realtor to do it for you.

8. Does the commission saved worth your time and effects?
Finally, this is the bottom line. You should calculate how much money you can save and weight if this is worth your time and effects not to hire a realtor.

Related blog on home selling tips:

http://besthomesellingtips.com/2007/08/28/top-6-things-your-realtor-must-do-to-sell-your-home-fast-and-maximize-your-profit/

http://besthomesellingtips.com/2007/08/27/top-questions-you-must-ask-before-you-hire-a-real-estate-agent-or-you-could-lose-big/

http://besthomesellingtips.com/2007/08/14/how-a-right-real-estate-agent-looks-like-to-sell-your-home-fast/

http://besthomesellingtips.com/2007/07/21/what-kind-of-real-estate-agent-is-not-good-to-sell-your-home/

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In my previous blogs, I wrote about right and wrong realtor, and the top 10 questions you must ask before you hire a realtor.

Now, after your search, interview, careful screen, and reference checking, you sign an agreement with a realtor who you think is the Mr. Right Realtor. Now, what should you ask your Mr. Right Realtor to do in order to sell your home fast and maximize your profit?

Selling a home is a business decision. You should treat it as business. Now, you should act as the business manager for this home selling project and the real estate agent is your contractor. You need to make right decisions and be able to tell your contractor to do what is necessary, and make sure every thing is doing right.

If you are an informed decision maker and knowledgeable project manager, the chance for your home selling project to succeed will be much higher. Does this make sense to you?

Then what your realtor must do for me in order to sell your home fast and maximize my profit?

Here are the top 6 things that your realtor must do for you and do well: Read more

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I don’t know how many houses you have sold now. But, like most other people, this could be your first time Selling a home. With limited experience in real estate, how will you be capable of maximizing the profits from selling your home?

After some researches, you decide to hire a real estate agent to sell your home for you. However, you aren't sure what kind of agent to hire. It is a critical to hire a right agent for your success in selling your home.

A lot of home sellers make the critical mistake of thinking all real estate agents are the same. They list with agents without careful interview, screen, or checkup. Some of them possibly don't know how to hire a right real estate agent.

In my previous blogs, I wrote about what kind of agents are right and wrong ones. After reading that you will be able to tell a right agent from wrong one.

Right now, it comes out a question: What questions should I ask before I hire an agent during my interview with a real estate agent?

Here are the top ten questions to ask before your hire a realtor:

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In my previous blog, I wrote about the 8 indications of the wrong real estate agent not good to sell your home. Here, I’m going to talk about right real estate agents to sell your home.  How a right real estate agent looks like? Should the agent look handsome or beautiful to sell your home? Forgive me to use this title for this blog.  It really doesn’t matter how an agent looks like. What matters is what characteristics of a real estate agent has. Followings are the characteristics of a right real estate agent should have to sell your house: Read more

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If you hired or about to hire a real estate agent to help you to sell your house, do you really know what kind of real estate agent is a wrong agent to sell your home? Do you know how to tell the right one from the wrong one?  A wrong real estate agent will cost your money and valuable time, and even worse, may end up failure to sell your home. Here are 8 indications that can tell you if the agent isn't good to sell your house. 

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