Seller's Guide

What do you want to accomplish with the sale of your home? Do you want to make a certain amount of money that you can put toward a larger or nicer home? Do you need to sell it as soon as possible to facilitate a move to a new city or area? Are you wanting to downsize? Once you understand your reasons for selling, Bersch Fine Homes can assist you in formulating the best plan for your individualized selling process and comprehensive marketing plan. We can also help make sure you and your family are not displaced before finding your next home. 

If you’ve kept your home in showroom condition since you’ve lived in it, you’re in the minority of homeowners. Once you decide to sell your home, it’s time to start getting it ready to be shown to potential buyers. This includes getting rid of clutter and depersonalizing the space so that buyers can envision themselves and their belongings in the home. Making any small repairs and doing a deep clean to make sure your home is in pristine condition will help you yield better offers. Bersch Fine Homes will be happy to help you determine what changes will positively affect the sale of your home and let you know what doesn’t need to be done – possibly saving you time and money.

Receiving an offer is an exciting part of the process, but it doesn’t mean the journey is over. Bersch Fine Homes will help you closely evaluate each offer and make sure the party making the offer is prequalified or pre-approved for the amount of the offer. Aside from purchase price, there are many other aspects and details that can either add or detract from the attractiveness sensibility of the offer. We will help you decipher those details and together we can determine if it is in your best interest to accept the offer, decline the offer, or create a counter-offer to the prospective buyer. In the event of multiple offers, we will create a comparison chart to make this process even easier for you.

You have accepted an offer and are now very close to the end of your selling journey. But first, Bersch Fine Homes and the selected title agency will make you aware of what needs to be done before closing. In some cases, your home may need to be formally inspected, surveyed, and appraised. In other cases, major or minor repairs will need to be made before the sale can be completed. During this time, you can also make plans to handle final details such as canceling utilities and changing your address with the U.S. Postal Service. If you haven’t done so already, you will also need to make arrangements to move out of the home so the new buyer can take possession at the mutually determined time.