Life was enjoyable until you started thinking about putting your Mesa home up for sale. The moment you decided, the first thought was, “I don’t want to get ripped off by some hotshot real estate agent or home flippers!” When a neighbor sold in a flash, you wondered “Was the price so low that a flipper bought it?” Other nearby homes have months of open houses with no offers. The stakes are real, and frustrations run high.
There are dozens of things to do and plenty to avoid. Since you have another career, it is likely your grasp of marketing comes from the internet or from watching “Flip or Flop” or “Property Brothers.” Is a TV program on home flipping a reliable guide to home selling? You don’t want home flippers to buy your house, but you may not feel prepared to fix up your own home.
Paying attention to trends, you or your designer choose gray as the best color scheme. What if you put in gray floors, gray counter tops, and paint the house gray only to find out that gray has become passé? You want to be treated fairly and you probably rely upon your own good sense. You end up hoping your ability to size up real estate agents is better than your fashion sense.
I know what it feels like to be ripped off. Like you, I am frustrated by incompetent agents. No one should have to sell for less than full value. The person guiding you should know fad from fashion.
What about getting help from a Realtor who has navigated 250 home fix ups? Put someone on your team who knows what really works, someone who has overseen $8M of home fix ups. These projects have earned my customers over $20M of additional profits. That is more than double the number of home preparation projects of any other real estate agent in town. Switch to having a great experience selling your home.
Fixing up homes, like all complex skills, is only mastered with experience. Are you hoping to get lucky on this try with one of the biggest financial transactions of your life? Selling a home means taking a serious financial risk. Wouldn’t you like to benefit from expert guidance?
Mesa Market Report
I don’t charge extra for helping you sell for top dollar; I consider it part of my job. Call me and let’s schedule an appointment to walk through your home. Allow me to create a customized plan for you that we can execute together. Let’s get you safely past the home flippers and bum agents and back to enjoying life.
September Mesa Market
The highest sale last month in 93019 was a 5,097 square foot, 5-bedroom, 5-bath home at 3635 Campanil Drive that closed for $8.3M. It was a newly constructed, contemporary, concrete, steel and glass home on 1.3 ocean view acres. It sold before coming fully onto the market. The highest sale on the Mesa was the 1,732 SF remodeled Marine Terrace home at 118 San Clemente for $2,070,000. It also sold before coming on the market.
The least expensive 93109 house was at 2430 Murrell Road. With 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths and 1,032 square feet; it sold for $1M, also before reaching the market.
There was a condo sale at 210 Reef Court. With 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths and 1,130 square feet, it was in good condition and had a particularly good location within the complex. It sold for $813,000 and took 16 days to sell.
The average time to enter escrow on the Mesa this past month was 69 days, not counting the off-market sales which register as one day of marketing time. That is about the same marketing time as Santa Barbara – 71 days – and faster than Montecito – 139 days.
When you want your real estate sale to be quick, pleasant, and profitable call me: 805-451-9300.
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