Flat-fee Listings – Good Deal or Not?

Edmond OK FSBO Flat-fee listings

Here’s another prime example of how a flat-fee listing (or FSBO) can cost you big. It pays to have an experienced, connected professional Realtor® on your side. I did a flat fee MLS listing. A realtor came and looked at my house. He liked it and said he wanted to buy it for himself. We [...]

Home Video Tours – Your Thoughts?

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We’re trying a different approach than most, to online home tours. From a consumer perspective, what do you like and dislike about this approach? What’s it lacking? How could it be improved, to be more useful to you if you were in the market for a new home? C’mon, be brutally honest!

4 Ways To Warm Up Your Room In A Weekend

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With cooler weather not far away its time to start transitioning our rooms from Summer to Fall. Whether you’re selling your home this season or staying put for awhile, the following ideas can be implemented now to create instant style! Try one or all of my favorite tips to make it simple and affordable! Add fresh flowers. Many grocery [...]

Mistakes Homesellers Make, Part II

Selling a home in Edmond Oklahoma

In my last post, I unpacked three of the biggest mistakes home sellers tend to make that affect their showings and open houses. Ready for another slap on the wrist? Read on for three more mistakes people make that sabatoge their showings. 4) Assuming would-be buyers won’t mind the holes in the wall/chipped paint/scuffed baseboards. [...]

10 House-Selling Secrets

Staging Tips for Edmond Oklahoma

As our resident home stager, Jennifer Hicks will tell you, there’s more to staging than just “decorating.” The goal with staging is to help potential buyers visualize what could be and get a good feeling about “the flow” of your home. A recent CNNMoney.com article, 10 house-selling secrets – Secrets of a house stager reinforces [...]

Price Your Home Correctly – I DARE YOU!

Top Edmond Listing Realtors

Meeting with home sellers in the Edmond and Oklahoma city area almost daily, I have a lot of long discussions about overpriced listings. I even have this discussion with A LOT of local agents, whether seasoned veterans, or newbies. Why is this such a frequent topic? Well, it’s simple… Overpricing a home is absolutely the [...]

Mistakes Homesellers Make, Part I

Selling homes in Edmond Oklahoma

So, you’ve read my other articles on home staging and taken them to heart. You’ve headed the warnings from your Realtor. You’ve watched so many HGTV shows you think its time you get your own. Great! Time to put the sign in the yard and start bringing home boxes and packing peanuts. Not so fast! [...]

Selling Your Home – The Good and the Bad

Top Listing Agents in Edmond Oklahoma

Let’s be honest; to say the past 6 months (or more) as a listing agent in the Oklahoma City metro has been sketchy and unpredictable would be grossly understating reality. In turn, this means that being a home seller in Central Oklahoma has been, well, sketchy and unpredictable. The numbers (the statistics) don’t lie. We’ve [...]

5 States Where Housing Is Predicted to Recover the Quickest

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Wondering about the housing market in Oklahoma? Most people around here are these days, but would you have guessed that Oklahoma is among the 5 States Where Housing Is Predicted to Recover the Quickest? Oklahoma. Home prices in the Sooner State fell just 2.3% from peak to trough and mortgage delinquencies are 2.9%. Unemployment is [...]

Virtual Home Staging – A Reality

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If you know the ShowMeOKC Team at all, you know that we place a heavy emphasis on marketing our homes in the online world, simply because it’s where 90% of home buyers begin their search. One of the big pieces of that online marketing is photography. Home buyers will decide whether they want to see [...]