Top 10 Unique Home Selling Tactics

Want your home to sell fast?

A clean house and a plate of warm cookies used to be good enough to attract attention. Not anymore.

These days, home sellers have become more creative in capturing a buyer's attention. From the clever to the most unconventional methods, here are ten unique home selling tactics in real life to try in today’s market.

1. Home staging. Staging your Waukesha property is important in home selling. It showcases a home's strengths and makes it more appealing to buyers. It allows buyers to visualize themselves in the home, letting them see the lifestyle they can enjoy in it.

Some home sellers offer more than just a potential home and lifestyle, they offer good luck by using feng shui. In Chinese culture, feng shui means a harmonious balance of individuals with the environment, allowing good fortune to come into the home.

2. Throw an open house party. An open house is extremely beneficial in home selling. Make it more effective, enticing and memorable by offering catered food, music, prizes and drinks.

3. Seller financing. Sometimes, you'll get serious buyers who can pay the monthly mortgage but don't have enough cash for down payment. You cannot give down payment funds, but can offer seller assist or down payment gift assistance programs.

Seller assist means extending enough credit to the buyer to cover the purchase price of the home, without any down payment. Since your listed Waukesha home is priced to include some room for negotiation, you'll walk away with a price closer to your asking price. Without seller assist, the buyer gets a better deal on house.

Seller assist benefits both you (as the seller) and the buyer. You can sell your home faster and the buyer can have the home he wants without worrying about the 20% down payment.

4. Exercise a little faith. In the olden times, people bury the statue of St Joseph. These days, there are some sellers who swear that burying the statue in the backyard, near a natural growth, increases the chance of selling a home faster.

5. Offer a home warranty. Warranties don’t just come in forms of gadgets and appliances. Turns out, you can offer get a home warranty! Entice buyers by offering a one-year warranty for any appliance that break down. For buyers, it can be appealing because it is one less worry on their mind. They’ve already spent a significant amount of money purchasing the home, and a broken appliance is an additional burden, so buyers really appreciate home warranty.

6. Provide a virtual tour. Buyers don’t need to come to your home. They can experience being there through a virtual tour.

7. Be an Internet expert. Don't want to sell your home through the conventional method? Try selling it online. Sellers have been known to auction their homes on various real estate swapping websites like auction.com and hubzu. Or you can also opt for house swapping through many swapping websites available online.

8. Use hi-tech advertising. Don't just rely on the conventional marketing method. Use every option available to reach your potential buyer. Some sellers have even used the Talking House radio transmitter, a transmitter with antenna that can record and broadcast your home's features and benefits. This is a powerful audio presentation and can be heard by anyone on the radio as they are driving by your house.

9. Auction your home. There's nothing better than a healthy competition, and taking your home to auction is great because it creates an environment of competitive bidding. This will help not just to sell your home faster, it also attracts potential buyers and may increase a home's value as well.

Contact me, Kristin Johnston, for more details on how to plan a home auction.

10.  Offer incentives to buyers. Whether it is a brand new TV, a plane ticket, a home warranty or paying for the buyer’s closing costs, one thing is sure. It will draw buyers in and make your home more appealing for purchase.

Sell your home faster when you use any of these tactics in selling your home. Visit http://www.KristinJohnston.com/ for more helpful tips and suggestions in listing your home.

Call me, Kristin Johnston, at 414-254-6647. Let’s make your home selling journey a fun and pleasant ride.