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The Great 'what you wish you'd known before selling your house' Hunt
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The Great 'what you wish you'd known before selling your house' Hunt
We want to tap into MoneySavers' collective knowledge to collate top tips for newbie home-sellers. From estate agents and advertising to prospective buyers' chat-up lines, tell us your tricks. 0
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1) Don't just choose the cheapest solicitor who is based in an office miles away. They will most likely have taken on too many jobs, will be slow, will make a hash of the job and their secretaries will be completely useless.
2) Make sure the money for the mortgage deposit can be easily withdrawn. I had money in my account and due to the security procedures of a certain incompetent Spanish bank, it took just over two weeks for the funds to clear, thus delaying the moving date.
3) Do your homework on the area - I am in the town centre and drove around the area at nighttime several times to make sure I wasn't in for any nasty surprises upon moving in (antisocial behavior / noise etc)
4) Remember that the term "Soliciting" does not refer to work carried out by a solicitor and is not a good thing to write in a formal email - whoops.0 -
Have a proper clear out. Completely declutterFor everthing else there's mastercard.
For clampers there's Barclaycard.0 -
Post your house pics on here for devastatingly frank comments before your property is on Rightmove!0
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Having just sold my house and currently viewing houses, I would say relax when showing people around. There is nothing worse than being given far too much information - no-one generally needs notification of every power point or the complete history of the house and if they do, they will ask.
I think being relaxed when dealing with viewings makes your potential buyer relax too, rather than feeling pressurised to take an interest in your waffle and also you don't look desperate - even if you are!! Good luck everyone.0 -
Declutter - that's vital - but you may not recognise your own things as clutter because you're so used to seeing them. Get a ruthless friend to cast an eye over your place, and have a bin liner handy. And don't just shove it all in the cupboard where it will fall out when potential buyers open the door!0
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Everything that is visible to viewers should be something designed to be appealling, and to 'sell' your home.
For example;
In the kitchen, your plastic dish draining tray, which you normally leave in the sink or on the drainer, should be removed. Likewise your washing up liquid, cleaning cloths, brushes, etc should be tucked away. Nobody will find these appealling. They're not a selling point.
In the bathroom, find a box that will take all of your daily toiletries. Bring it out last thing at night, put it away again in the morning. Leaving half-empty toothpaste tubes, shower gels, wet loofahs all over the place is not a good look.
Kitchens and Bathrooms especially, and the rest of the house too, should be clean, clean, clean. Nobody wants to buy your dirt.0 -
costingbunny wrote: »Having just sold my house and currently viewing houses, I would say relax when showing people around.
There's nothing more relaxing than going for a walk or continuing with your daily life whilst your agent does your viewings for you.
They'll have done this far, far more than you will have, and will therefore be better at it. Forget the argument about "I know my house better than the agent". For the vast majority of houses in this country, what can the owner know about their house that can't be communicated to their agent?0 -
Remember to put aside enough money for the other costs involved in buying property, beyond the cost of the property itself.
These can vary dramatically in price, but include mortgage fees, legal fees and surveyors costs.
Also stamp duty is payable on all properties that cost more than £125k.0 -
These money saving techniques are very good for a middle class person, must try it.0
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Remember to put aside enough money for the other costs involved in buying property, beyond the cost of the property itself.
These can vary dramatically in price, but include mortgage fees, legal fees and surveyors costs.
Also stamp duty is payable on all properties that cost more than £125k.
Fine , but isn't this thread about selling not buying?The Great 'what you wish you'd known before selling your house' Hunt
To update our house-selling guide, we want to tap into MoneySavers' collective knowledge to collate top tips for newbie home-sellers. From estate agents and advertising to prospective buyers' chat-up lines, tell us your tricks.0
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