Tip: 8 Secrets To Selling Your Home For More Money.

Many home sellers either don't know how, won't, or don't need to do some of the little things that ensure a sale at the highest price possible. If your goal is to maximize the highest sale price for your home, consider these eight secrets:

1. To obtain the best price, don’t be anxious to  accept a deal. Allow time for the right buyer to come along, but know it when they do.
2. Establish what your lowest selling price will be before negotiations. In retrospect, don’t hold out for the impossible.
3. Use the tricks of  the marketing industry. $199,900. looks better to a purchaser than $200,000. Use this strategy for both marketing and negotiating a sale price.
4. Always be prepared to show your home on short notice. The buyer you turn down may be the buyer that would have bought your home. Remember, not all buyers are local and it may not be convenient for them to see ypour home another time.
5. Be willing to redecorate if necessary, i.e.: new broadloom, vinyl flooring, repainting. State it in your listing agreement.
6. Deal with all offers expeditiously. Use the buyers emotional attachment to your home at that moment to your advantage. If you wait the buyers excitement may dwindle resulting in a lower sale price. 
7. As a buyer it is common to ask for contingencies on an offer, i.e.: financing arrangements, home inspection, sale of a home. As a seller it is not. Avoid putting in your own contingencies as a seller.
8. Bend on  possession dates if possible. Buyers will sometimes pay a little more on a sale price if they can obtain the possession date they require.