For Metro New Orleans Home Sellers

This is a tough environment for New Orleans area home sellers. There is a lot of inventory on the real estate market, and prices have been weak. Buyers are bargain hunting and looking at a lot of homes before coming to a decision. In this competitive market, it pays to have expert help.

To this end, we want to share some thoughts about how our professional REALTOR® services can help save you time, hassles and hopefully money in marketing your New Orleans area home.

With our long history of sales success, our contacts and negotiation skills, we are highly qualified to help you. Please contact us when the time is right.

Steps to Selling Your Home

Determine your price.

Once you decide to sell your home, determine a price that you will ask and one you will accept. This can be the toughest and most important decision you will make.

How we will help:
We will suggest a realistic price to ask based on comparable sales in the area, condition of the property and general market conditions. This price should be as high as possible for you, but one that will facilitate a transaction considering your personal time frame.

Prepare your home for showing.

Do the improvements that make sense. A little paint can go a long way toward helping you get the best offer possible. Landscape your lawn for a good first impression. Clean windows, fix leaky faucets, do all the little things to reduce clutter and brighten the house. Make the bathrooms sparkle.

How we will help:
With our long experience in construction, remodeling and interior design, we can help you determine what renovations (if any) make the most sense and will give you the most bang for your buck.

We offer a set of experienced, objective eyes and opinions about preparing your home for sale.

Market your home.

Put a sign in your yard, field phone calls from prospective buyers, hold your house open and create and distribute a Web page dedicated to selling your home.

We will show your home when you are not available, take responsibility for fielding phone calls and hold the house open for you.

We will show your home to pre-approved buyers, screened either by us or through their own agents. This will help eliminate window shoppers and hopefully set aside safety issues that can occur with sale by owner properties.

In addition, we will enter your home in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) system. This will give information and pricing to all the REALTORS® in the New Orleans area. MLS listings sell more homes than any other medium.

Further, we will contact other top agents in the area and quickly market your home via word of mouth advertising and agents' open tours.

Our Online Marketing Strategy

We will feature your home on this heavily trafficked Web site. A link on every page complete with a photograph will connect to a slide show and information sheet about your home.

Second, we will create a Web page with its own unique URL (for instance, http://www.555yourstreet.com). This page will be advertised on our sign in your yard and will be submitted to leading search engines, popular real estate portals and to craigslist.

We will submit your home's Web page to these and other search sites to
maximize your property's online exposure.

Negotiate your sale price.

Decide if any offer you receive is acceptable or if you want reject or counter.

We help here as well.
We will receive all offers and report then to you. We will advise you whether to accept or counter and deliver your decision to the buyer's agent. We serve as your conduit to a successful negotiation.

Prepare your home for closing.

Now come inspections, mortgage approval for the buyer, appraisal and the title search.

We help with all the big and little things that can make or break a sale. We monitor and report to you any events that may impact your sale and stand by, if you request, to take backup offers on your home.

The closing.

All the papers are signed, you receive a check and present your keys to the buyer.

At this stage, we accompany you to the closing and help make sure that all goes well for you.