Life was enjoyable until you started thinking about putting your Montecito home for sale. The moment you decided, the first thought was “I don’t want to get ripped off by some hot shot real estate agent or home flipper!” 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 marketing 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 homes 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 a flipper 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 millions of dollars 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.
Montecito Market Report
Fixing up homes, like all complex skills, is only mastered with experience. Are you hoping to get lucky on this home selling try? Selling a home means taking a serious financial risk. Wouldn’t you like to benefit from expert guidance?
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 Montecito Market
The highest sale last month in Montecito was a 4,442 s.f., 4 bedroom, 4 full baths, 2 half baths home. Near Butterfly Beach at 1127 Hill Road, it closed for $13M. It sold for full price, 10 days after coming on the market.
The least expensive 93108 house sold at 645 Circle Drive. With 2 bedrooms, 3 baths and 1,432 square feet; it sold for $1.22M, 87 days after reaching the market.
In the past 12 months the number of Montecito homes sold grew by 6 percent.Which is what you would expect as the area recovers from the 2018 debris flow. The inventory of homes for sale increased by 29 percent, meaning more people are trying to sell, and the median price increased 2.9 percent to around $2.8M.
The average time to sell a Montecito house was 132 days. The inventory of active listings includes 180 houses and 28 condos
When you want your real estate sale to be quick, pleasant, and profitable, Call me – 805-451-9300
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