Timelines Before Selling a Home

So, a question that I get asked often by people are what are the timelines when their selling their home. What should you expect? After working with hundreds of sellers here in the Chicagoland suburbs, it’s a question that we get asked all the time.

Hi, I’m Jackie Reed, Team Leader of the Suburban Home Experts Team of Keller Williams Success Realty.

Well, the first step is that we need to get the home ready for sale. You really need to be careful not to just slap the home on the MLS prior to having it in show ready condition. This will give you an idea of a few things that you need to think about prior to actually letting buyers go into your home.  We can also discuss putting you on the PRIVATE listing/COMING SOON network while you are getting your home ready to sell. 

So after we meet and you decide to list with us, we will give you a listing contract to sign. We also go over all the disclosures with you so we have these available for buyers to actually look at, so they are fully aware of the condition of the home prior to making an offer.

Once all the listing paperwork is executed, we will then schedule an appointment with our stager to come over and actually give you a consultation and give recommendations on what exactly you need to do to enhance the appearance of your home to actually get the maximum return on your investment.

Don’t worry, there’s no additional cost to you for this service, but it’s essential because research shows the importance of staging is in relation to the amount of money that you will get on your home, as well as, how quickly your home will sell.  During this time we also talk about whether or not you should have any work done prior to going live onto multiple listing service.

Once your home is in show ready condition, then we will schedule our professional photographer and videographer to your home to capitalize on all of the unique features of the home.  This will also include aerial photos and floor plans.

Once we have all the pictures, floorplan & videos, we will then work on all of the back end digital marketing so we can expose your home to the masses.  This is one of the most important parts of getting you the most amount of money on your home.

We don’t just put up a sign and put it on the MLS, it’s much more detailed than that. We have a very strategic, comprehensive, digital
marketing strategy that we utilize that is like no other.

This involves running highly targeted ad campaigns across multiple social media platforms. Please know, by just posting your home on
a Facebook Page or on a Business Page, only about 3% of people are actually seeing it. So we properly expose your home across multiple social media platforms.

Don’t forget, we go onto all the major sites like Zillow, Realtor.com, you name it, we’re there. And we’ve enhanced these sites to get optimum performance.

Now that we’re live, you can actually expect agents to be making appointments to show your home to take their clients through, so they can see it. The buyers agent will accompany them so don’t worry about that. Depending on the time of year and the market conditions, that will determine how long it will take for your home to sell.

We are always here for you and would love to hear from you!  Wishing you all an awesome day!