Why use a Realtor to Sell your Home?

Thinking of selling your home yourself?  Know the facts before before making that decision.
1)  The median selling price in Texas for homes sold without a Realtor® is 17% lower than homes sold with a Realtor®.  Buyers are knowledgeable and intelligent.  They know they can buy your home for the price you are quoting… less the [...]

Staging Your Home Gives You a Powerful Advantage

What is home staging? Staging is marketing. It is a proven technique that turns a home into a product that can be marketed and sold. It transforms a home to appeal to the broadest possible audience to generate the greatest possible interest from buyers. Staging sells homes in less time than the un-staged competition and [...]

The key to selling your home.

Selling your home this year?   As a Realtor® in Austin, Texas, I’ve worked with sellers living in fear throughout the process, particularly in the current real estate market.  Good news!  You don’t have to let fear and anxiety take over your life when selling your home.   Internalizing the principles of trust, detachment, abundance, and acceptance not only change [...]

July 17th Update on Selling our Home.

As Realtor®, I’m well-versed in the legal mechanics of selling a home in Austin.  But the experience is quite different when it’s you that’s going through the stress of time-lines, inspections, and not-really-being certain that the deal will close until the day of the closing.  It takes a lot of trust.  I try to remember the following:

Everything will work out for [...]

Getting Real when Selling your Home.

Home Sellers in the current Austin real estate market are having to face the reality of a market that’s great for buyers, but difficult for sellers.  Homes are selling, but the sales prices are lower than in previous years.  I’m in the unique position of being a Realtor® and selling my own home so I can relate to the challenges my clients are facing.
The things I [...]

Update on Selling our Home.

Our home’s been on the market now for 23 days.  We’ve had five showings – less than we expected – but since our home is located in Southwest Austin, things are not as “hot” as central Austin.   We’re following the advice that we’ve been giving clients for years:
1- Price your home competitively and be ready to [...]

Flow, Balance, and Energy will Sell A Home.

Three simple Feng Shui principles to follow when selling your home:
1 - Create FLOW by de-cluttering each area.
2-  Create BALANCE through furniture and
accessory arrangement.
                                                     3-  Create ENERGY by using vibrant colors
and dynamic accessories.
Keeping these principles in mind when preparing your home for sale go a long way to making a great first impression and helping a buyers feel [...]

My Job is to Help Home Sellers and Now I am One.

We decided to be proactive about our finances and decided that selling our home was the best solution to our current economic state.  My partner David never really felt like our three-year old home was “home.”   I did, but I also succumbed to the facts about how much money we were spending versus how much we were earning.  In light [...]