How to Prepare Your Home for Sale

Happy 2014! I hope you are having a great year so far. Today I wanted to talk about preparing your home for sale. You may be thinking about selling your home this year or later on down the road; either way, I have key information about preparing your home for sale.

Before I go into that, I want to mention two things; the first being our Market Snapshot Tool. If you’re interested in knowing the value of your home, this is a great tool we use with both our past and current clients. With this, you will receive a monthly email showing what has been selling in your neighborhood, what is active and what is under contract. Secondly, if you’re looking to buy a home, we offer a private portal that shows you the homes for sale in the areas you’re interested in. Feel free to reach out to me if you want to take part in any of these services!

Before prepping your home for sale, you’ll want to get a good feel for what neighborhood homes are selling for. The next piece of information you’ll want to know is what price range you want to sell your home in. This is a great opportunity for us to give you some initial values and general comparable properties via email. After this is determined, we have a 75 point checklist that analyzes the important areas, from room to room, to start preparing your home for sale. This checklist goes a long way!

Another step a lot of my clients like to do is to complete a pre-home inspection or obtain a home warranty before even placing the home on the market. This allows you to deal with any issues that may arise during the sale that you couldn’t see on your own.  Consider it this way: the inspection process is not dissimilar to buying a used car!

With spring coming up, I hope this helps you when you’re preparing your home for sale. If you have any questions or any inclination to sell your home, give us a call! We look forward to your call being the best call of the day.

Denver Quarterly Market Update

Denver Quarterly Market Update

Hey, guys!

I’m here in front of our brand new office today and I wanted to share what’s been happening in our Denver area market. As, I’m sure you’ve seen in the news, the market is great!

We have data included for you to see exactly what’s been going on. A year ago I thought our inventory was low. Since then, though, it has continued to decrease. The active listings for single-family homes and condos have dropped by seven percent.

One of statistics I’m most excited about is our average sales price. Last year it was $250,000; this year its $346,000! That’s incredible. Not only can sellers get a great price, but their homes are sitting on the market for fewer days! The average-days-on-market dropped 43 percent from last year. That average home is on the market for only 37 days!

It’s not just good news for sellers, though. We are experiencing historically low interest rates that make now a better than ever time to buy.

If you have any questions about selling, buying, pricing, staging, whatever you can think of, give me a call! I’d be more than happy to help!

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We Sold It In 8 Hours!

We Sold It In 8 Hours!

Hey guys! We're back! If you remember from the last video we were just getting ready to put the Browns' home on the market.

Well, we have fantastic news. On the very first day we had three offers! Our home went under contract in eights hours!

We had never sold a home before, but working with Ryan and his team exceeded all our expectations. All our questions were answered, everything was handled with grace and he was there from the beginning to the very end. We couldn't have asked for a better experience!

So if you want to sell your home we strongly recommend calling Ryan!

Ben Franklin Academy BENefit Bash

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Ryan and Ann Marie Anderson are proud to team up with the Ben Franklin Academy for their annual BENefit Bash. 

The Ben Franklin Academy is a preschool through 7^th grade charter school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. This year’s BENefit Bash will take place on April 27^th and will include a live auction and silent auction. The BFA will be using the proceeds from the fundraiser will go towards expanding the sound and security systems, library improvements, software for our technology lab, a rock climbing wall for our gym and adding a Professional Resources library for our teachers. 

In addition to teaming up with BFA for the BENefit Bash, we will be giving 15% of all of our real estate commissions for anyone who has a child that is enrolled at BFA or attends the auction to the Ben Franklin Academy. We look forward to the BENefit Bash and working with BFA in the future.

If you have any real estate needs, make sure to give us a call at (303) 523-4364 or email us at RyanMovesYou@gmail.com.