The Insider's Guide To Selling Your Home By Owner- Rocio Fausto I | Page 91

 Parks  Various services (recycling, trash pickup, etc.)  Utility costs  Taxes  Examples of financing options  Neighbor friendliness  Touch Base Later - Once the open house is over, and you can breathe again, you’ll be glad that you had sign in sheets. You’re going to want to contact each visitor to see if they’re truly interested in your property. You’ll also want to see what they thought of your place. Don’t be offended if you get some critical answers. You can use this valuable information to improve your home before more viewers come by. Another issue that is a real biggie when following up from an open house is whether or not the folks who are interested in buying your home are actually capable of buying your home. Without enough purchasing power, buying is a lost cause. For this reason, you might consider qualifying your prospective buyers. Step 5: Negotiations with the buyer. At long last, you have received an offer on your home! Congratulations! Now, the question is, what do you do with the thing? Without a trusted real estate agent to guide you, negotiations can be very frightening situations. And they should be! But let’s see what I can do to ease the way for you a little. Okay. You begin negotiations. You might get a verbal or written offer, and that’s fine. However, insist that the verbal offer be put into writing 90