Successfully Selling your home: What is the best time of the year to sell your home? In Tampa the largest number of prospective home buyers are in the marketplace between April and August as they are preparing to move usually as close to the end of or after the school term.

It is in your best interest to interview at least three successful local real estate sales agents who sell homes in your area or who are visible in the market place through advertising or word of mouth. Successful agents can sell anywhere.  Each agent should inspect your home and prepare a written CMA (comparative market analysis). This form shows recent sales of comparable homes, which have sold within the last six months in your immediate area. It also shows the asking prices of competitive homes currently for sale.

More important, each successful agent you interview should make value adjustments for the extras in your home, compared to the recent sales prices of similar nearby homes, and give you their opinion of your home's probable sales price based on today's market conditions. By comparing the three top expert real estate agents estimates of your home's current market value, you will have a precise idea of your home's value. Even a real estate appraiser cannot possibly be as expert on home values in your neighborhood as are local realtors who sell homes where you live.

Why Diane?

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!

1.       I will tell you exactly what is involved in selling a home today--including the required disclosures such as for lead-based paint, structural defects, hazards and other potential problems. Being a top agent, I know how to anticipate these home sale difficulties, as this is my job.

2.       I will prepare an expert CMA and tell you what the probably sale price of your home will be.  In 1999 I am proud to report that I achieved the highest prices per square foot in the neighborhood and got the happy sellers 99% of the asking prices.  I will help you arrive at a home price that will not price your home out of the market!

3.       I will advise you of the factors that control the sale of homes.  A few such factors include local economic conditions, the home’s location, the supply of similar homes in the same price range, the physical condition of the home, the financing available and the desirability of your home compared to other nearby homes now available for sale.

4.       I will give you the benefit of having a top agent that actively and aggressively markets and sells property by using the MLS, running weekly newspaper ads, putting listings on the Internet at  various sites and by also networking and phoning and mailing information on my listings to other agents.  Let the new agents experiment on someone else.

5.       I will give you the benefit of having and utilizing my marketing program.

6.       I will give you my Sellers Services Guarantee.

7.       I will give you top advertising in every media that I am currently enrolled in.  Some include: The Tampa Tribune, The Coldwell Banker Buyer’s guide, full color magazines, Distinctively Belle Meade and Van Dyke Farms, MLS, 100 just listed cards to the neighbors, yard sign.

 8.   You will have an agent that does not sign you up and “disappears”.  I will give you all the
       feedback on showings, updated CMA’s as necessary and any tips to keep you current
       in the marketplace.

 9.  You will have the benefit of my extensive marketing & negotiating education and experience,
       including a GRI and CRS degree.