{"id":17915,"date":"2021-03-02T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T16:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=17915"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T16:15:53","slug":"overnight-news-the-most-important-preparation-for-selling-a-home-know-what-market-youre-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17915\/overnight-news-the-most-important-preparation-for-selling-a-home-know-what-market-youre-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: The most important preparation for selling a home? Know what market you\u2019re\u00a0in."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cIf you can’t pounce on the slice of ham the instant it hits the floor \u2013 another dog\u00a0can.\u201d<\/p><\/div>For my two most-recent listings, the prep work consisted of landscaping \u2013 around $300 each. For one, I had planned to have a huge, ugly tree trimmed, but the house sold before the tree surgeon could sharpen his scalpel. For vacant listings, I’m doing landscaping plus deep cleaning, but I’m still coming in under $1,000 a house.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I saw an article \u2013 I won’t say where \u2013 on the importance of staging for the sale of your home.<\/p>\n

Yeah… Not so much. Not now. Everything helps, incrementally, I suppose \u2013 but anything that delays your entry into this market right now is probably a mistake. If I take possession of a house on Monday, I will have it listed by Friday and sold by Tuesday \u2013 or sooner. My staging right now consists of a bottle of hand sanitizer.<\/p>\n

Staging, photos, drone shots, virtual tours, floorplans, blah, blah, blah. The purpose of marketing is to move goods that aren’t moving on their own. When houses are selling like hotcakes \u2013 and when the breakfast menu could go away at any second \u2013 our job is not marketing but salesmanship.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/p>\n

CNBC:<\/strong> Creating safe and affordable homes is reaching a crisis point.<\/a> Ahem. Get the hell out of the way.<\/p>\n

Legal Insurrection:<\/strong> Kristi Noem: \u201cCOVID didn\u2019t crush the economy. Government crushed the economy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

City Journal:<\/strong> Covid\u2019s Transportation Tsunami: To allocate new infrastructure spending wisely, legislators need to understand how Americans\u2019 habits have changed.<\/a><\/p>\n

City Journal:<\/strong> \u201cMoney Printer Go Brrr\u201d Can the U.S. borrow endlessly?<\/a><\/p>\n

American Greatness:<\/strong> A Trojan Horse for Woke Education.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you can’t pounce on the slice of ham the instant it hits the floor \u2013 another dog\u00a0can.\u201dFor my two most-recent listings, the prep work consisted of landscaping \u2013 around $300 each. For one, I had planned to have a huge, ugly tree trimmed, but the house sold before the tree surgeon could sharpen his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1687,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1687\/what-makes-a-home-sell-marketing-preparation-and-especially-price\/","url_meta":{"origin":17915,"position":0},"title":"What makes a home sell? 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