San Juan Islands

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Optimizing Your Position: A Quick Checklist*

*This checklist is meant as a brief, general overview as selling property in the islands can be a complicated process.

Determine Your Desirable Sale Price.
Select a Marketing Strategy. Do plan to utilize a real estate broker or do you plan to “sell by owner” (FSBO)? There are MULTIPLE REASONS why you should utilize a professional real estate broker.
Procure a CMA. Your agent will compose a COMPARATIVE MARKET ANALYSIS to determine your property’s current worth. Is the value commensurate with your desired sale price (see first step above)?
Craft a Marketing Strategy with Your Agent. Determine a competitive sale price and establish your plan. The most effective approach usually entails combining both digital and old school techniques.
Prepare Your Property for Sale. Complete any home improvements which are deemed necessary or advisable by your agent. Clean out and declutter all structures and yards. Staging a primary residence often improves the property’s marketability.
Procure Your Marketing Materials. Your agent will acquire professional photos and videos of your property, as well as refine the property’s written description.
List Your Property. Schedule home showing(s) as necessary to expose your property.
Receive Purchase Offers. Depending on the current market, you may be expected to negotiate the sale price with a prospective buyer.
Accept an Offer and Open Escrow. The duration of escrow can vary and is often modified by the seller’s obligations and/or the buyer’s wishes.
Navigate Closing Obligations. Such obligations include appraisals, inspections, and repairs.
Plan for move out. Unless agreed upon beforehand, the seller should be completely moved-out by the day of closing.
Close escrow.