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Maintaining Distance When Selling Your PA Home
By Kevin Mihm | May 10, 2010
Selling a home in Pittsburgh or Wexford can be a very personal experience. After all, this is the place you’ve lived for years. Maybe you renovated the interior with your own two hands. Maybe you got married here. Maybe this is even where you raised your kids. No matter what it is that makes your home, well, home, the decision to sell isn’t one that comes lightly to everyone.
The personal attachment we all have to our homes is part of the reason it can be difficult to sell a Pennsylvania home.
- Homeowners who associate positive memories with a house are more likely to value it at higher than the market rate. This can make it difficult to find a balance between what you think your home is worth and what it will reasonably sell for.
- Staging a home you love (and still live in) can be more challenging than staging an empty space. Packing away your personal belongings (e.g., pictures, knick knacks, books) to give your home a more streamlined and sell-able look for up to months at a time can put a strain on your enjoyment of the home selling and buying process.
- It can also be hard to put all your trust in another person’s hands. Selling a home in Pittsburgh and the outlying areas often requires that you have open houses, walk-throughs, and open doors to everyone from real estate agents to nosy neighbors. Having others view your home – oftentimes while you are not there – requires that you put personal reservations about privacy aside.
Although this paints a rather bleak portrait of what selling a home entails, the truth is that people buy and sell homes every day. They upgrade to new family homes in Pittsburgh suburbs and move to downtown condos with chic views – and are usually more than happy with the outcome.
One way to get past issues of trust and privacy is to put your home in the hands of a real estate agent you trust. Your agent works as an advocate for you and your house, making sure that everything proceeds safely and with a minimal hassle. And because your agent knows the Wexford real estate landscape, it’s easier to settle on a price and a staging set up that will get you faster results.
Kevin Mihm has been working in the Pennsylvania area for years, and knows exactly what it is that makes local homebuyers interested. To minimize your anxiety and sell a PA home quickly and easily, feel free to call our office today.
Topics: Pine Township PA Homes for Sale, Pittsburgh PA Real Estate, Wexford Pennsylvania Real Estate |