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Sherrie Hartzell is a licensed Realtor® in Virginia specializing in helping home sellers and home buyers in Northern Virginia (Prince William, Alexandria, Fairfax and Arlington) and Central Virginia including Fredericksburg, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Westmoreland, Culpeper, Orange and surrounding areas.
With recent market changes, Sherrie helps focus sellers and buyers on the best strategies to get homes and land sold and to find homes meeting their individualized requirements.
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Keller Williams Preferred Realty
385 Garrisonville Road, #105
Stafford, VA 22554 phone: 800-813-5612
Each office is independently owned and operated. This is not meant as a solicitation if your home is currently listed with a broker.
With recent market changes, Sherrie helps focus sellers and buyers on the best strategies to get homes and land sold and to find homes meeting their individualized requirements.
FREE REPORTS 24 hours per day 7 days per week FREE 24 HR RECORDED REAL ESTATE INFO LINE
800-813-5612
Ext. 6 Make Your Home More Appealing
Ext. 16 Ways to Speed Up Your Home Sale
Ext. 26 Five Homebuying Mistakes
Ext. 35 Five Reasons to Buy a House
Ext. 14 Horse Lots for Sale Rose Hill Farm Estates in Virginia
http://www.youtube.com/sherriehartzell
Keller Williams Preferred Realty
385 Garrisonville Road, #105
Stafford, VA 22554 phone: 800-813-5612
Each office is independently owned and operated. This is not meant as a solicitation if your home is currently listed with a broker.
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Sherrie Hartzell answered:
Fee simple is a type of ownership (and also a search term for how a Realtor (r) locates a single-family or a townhome for sale for their buyer clients.) It also might mean there are homeowners association documents that are required to be obtained for the buyer to review if the home is fee simple whereas the other types of ownership will require different items.
A condominium, rental, and/or cooperative (seen mainly in New York City and other areas in the United States) are other ownership types and each has their own requirements as to documents and other laws.
If you have any questions about different ownership types, please consult an attorney for the legal ramifications of each ownership type. Also, consulting a CPA might be useful to interpret the tax outcomes based on the type of property you wish to buy.
A condominium, rental, and/or cooperative (seen mainly in New York City and other areas in the United States) are other ownership types and each has their own requirements as to documents and other laws.
If you have any questions about different ownership types, please consult an attorney for the legal ramifications of each ownership type. Also, consulting a CPA might be useful to interpret the tax outcomes based on the type of property you wish to buy.
Sherrie Hartzell answered:
Dear Irene,
The most important thing to have for your listing is at least ten and up to thirty photos even if you have to photograph communitiy amenities such as a pool or playground area owned by your homeowners association.
Homebuyers love pictures. The listings with photographs get more views than the listings with only one or no photographs.
Virtual tour is optional and not a required feature. Just make sure you have plenty of pictures of your townhome and it sounds like you have a lot already in your online home listing.
The most important thing to have for your listing is at least ten and up to thirty photos even if you have to photograph communitiy amenities such as a pool or playground area owned by your homeowners association.
Homebuyers love pictures. The listings with photographs get more views than the listings with only one or no photographs.
Virtual tour is optional and not a required feature. Just make sure you have plenty of pictures of your townhome and it sounds like you have a lot already in your online home listing.
Sherrie Hartzell answered:
If your agent does not want to list on this site, there is probably a good reason. The title suggests that the owner is selling their own home so this might be misleading to a potential buyer. When a buyer is looking for a home being sold by a homeowner they expect to get a lower price so possibly this is the reasoning behind the answer you received.
Sherrie Hartzell answered:
Open houses do not necessarily bring buyers for your home. Consider looking at homes in your immediate vicinity (your subdivision if you live in one). Which home(s) are under contract right now? What were their listing prices when they went under contract?
Many times the buyers are buying the lowest priced homes in any given subdivision and these buyers want a good deal and are not generally attached to a specific home. Even an attachment to a subdivision by a buyer might change if there is a less priced home in the next subdivision or two streets over that is lower-priced. These lowest or second lowest priced homes are generally getting the offers because the buyers want to see the value and to many buyers the best value is being the lowest or second priced home.
Lowering the home's price would allow more buyers the choice to visit your home with an agent and this would be a step in the right direction. Buyers have so many homes to choose from right now.
Many times the buyers are buying the lowest priced homes in any given subdivision and these buyers want a good deal and are not generally attached to a specific home. Even an attachment to a subdivision by a buyer might change if there is a less priced home in the next subdivision or two streets over that is lower-priced. These lowest or second lowest priced homes are generally getting the offers because the buyers want to see the value and to many buyers the best value is being the lowest or second priced home.
Lowering the home's price would allow more buyers the choice to visit your home with an agent and this would be a step in the right direction. Buyers have so many homes to choose from right now.
Sherrie Hartzell answered:
Short sales can take several weeks meaning anywhere from 4 weeks until even 8, 9 or 10 weeks to receive any type of answer from the bank and this might not even be the answer you were looking for.
Banks want more than one offer on a property and are willing to wait. There are many layers of decision makers plus bank procedures that have to be followed. For a short sale situation it is a long process with little information in the meantime and there are no guarantees.
You had a legal question and I am not an attorney. Locate a real estate attorney and they will be able to consult with you further.
Banks want more than one offer on a property and are willing to wait. There are many layers of decision makers plus bank procedures that have to be followed. For a short sale situation it is a long process with little information in the meantime and there are no guarantees.
You had a legal question and I am not an attorney. Locate a real estate attorney and they will be able to consult with you further.
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Solutions to sell your home
Formerly for sale by their owner real estate
Homes that were previously listed for sale such as expireds or withdrawns from the Multiple Listing Service in Virginia
Locating local real estate professionals for homebuyers in all 50 states including the United States and Canada. For more information e-mail homes@sherriehartzell.com or call 540-903-0212.
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