Houses Under Fifty Thousand

What Are You Really Selling?

When you are selling a home, what are you really selling? Will the ad in the paper just say "house for sale?" Not if you want to sell it. You are always selling more than just a "house." You are selling a location, perhaps a school district, and much more.

To market your home well, consider what exactly you have for sale. Your house may fit many people's criteria, but there will always be some few things that are most important about your house for the most potential buyers. Identify these and use them in your marketing.

Once a buyer comes to see the house, the focus changes. The important question then becomes "What are they buying?" As long as your home meets their needs, you should sell them what they need, want and like, not what you like about the home.

What Are You Selling?

Ask questions to identify what you are really selling. They may include:

- What type of people buy this style of home, and who buys in this neighborhood?

- What gets the most positive comments in this house?

- Do young or older peple mover here?

- Do they move here for the schools, parks, or proximity to jobs?

- Why did others move here? Why not ask the most recent arrivals?

- Is your home large for the price? Or is the yard large?

- Is a lifestyle associated with this home? Is it on a lake, downtown, or on a golf course?

Buyers need details when they read the listing for your home, or the advertising for it. They also need other reasons why they should be looking at it. Does it have a view? Show the view in a photo, instead of the garage or yard. They already know they're buying a house, so tell them what else they are getting.

What Are They Buying?

Appeal to the most potential buyers in your marketing. However, in your showing of the home, and talking to specific buyers, though, you want to focus on what they are looking for. If they casually say they need space for a playroom for the kids, show them the convertible basement space. Never mind if they never see the beautiful deck you built out back!

If you ask a buyer what they are looking for in a home, they'll usually tell you. This will save you time if there is no way your home can fit their particualr needs. It will tell you how to sell the house if you can show them how it can fit their needs. Selling a home is marketing to the masses, but selling to the individual.

Houses Under Fifty Thousand | What Are You Really Selling?