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1. Find the right representative
The experience and knowledge of a dedicated real estate professional can be priceless. A good Realtor® forms a powerful team with his or her clients that makes it possible for them to have a smooth, successful, stress-free sale.

2. Determine your needs/wants for the sale and for your new home
Selling your primary residence can be tricky because you have to simultaneously be thinking about where you would like to buy. First weigh your priorities – selling price is certainly important, but having a quick and efficient sale can often be worth accepting a slightly lower offer. Talk to your agent and make sure you’re comfortable with where your priorities are.

At the same time, you should be compiling a needs/wants list for the home you will buy. You will probably have to act fairly quickly when your house sells, so any amount of preparation you can do will serve you well.

3. Prepare your house for showing
Underprepared homes can be sales disasters. Your home will never get as much attention from potential buyers as when it is first listed, so clearing clutter, cleaning, making repairs, and putting your home’s best foot forward is essential. Don’t “open for business” until your home is ready to be seen as favorably as possible.

4. Find out what your local market looks like
Being realistic about your market is the key to a smooth sale. There is no substitute for a professional real estate representative when it comes to local market knowledge.

5. List away!
Lots of photos and online exposure are the key to getting a good response for your listing. Working with an agent who uses Point2 Agent software is a great step in the right direction. Now just “open” the house and sit back and wait for the flood of eager buyers!

Your Comparative Market Analysis
I can give you an educated idea of what your home’s value is based on experience, local knowledge, and comparable actual sales in your area! I am happy to be able to provide this service free of charge.

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Tom Brinkoetter, founder of prominent local real estate company, dies at 80 (Herald & Review)	7/5/2008 11:42 PM
DECATUR - Tom Brinkoetter was a worker. Jackie Brinkoetter, his wife, gave him an ultimatum in the 1950s, which started him on a highly successful career selling real estate.
Ex-real estate agent admits to bilking clients (The Observer-Dispatch)	7/5/2008 7:10 PM
Kristil Wright trusted local real estate agent Peter Bizzari when he said he would use the $3,500 she gave him last year to pay the taxes on her new house, the Rome woman recalled recently.
Vulture real estate investors swoop in (CNNMoney.com via Yahoo! Finance)	7/5/2008 5:33 AM
Rock-bottom home prices have finally begun to lure vulture real estate investors into the fray.
Reality in Real Estate: Home pricing negotiation blunders (9 News Denver)	7/5/2008 5:34 PM
KUSA - Home pricing negotiation blunders topped this week's Reality in Real Estate segment.
County's real estate market better than most (Burlington Times-News)	7/5/2008 8:32 PM
Real estate nationwide looks grim. Foreclosures flood the market and in most major cities property values have decreased over the past year. But hold on. The news is better in North Carolina.
For real estate adviser, motivation comes between buying and selling (The Oklahoman)	7/5/2008 11:40 PM
It's not the chase — landing a listing can be the easiest part of being a real estate agent. It's not the closing — completing a sale can be anticlimactic, although it is a payday. It's the stuff in between that excites and inspires Jason Little, a senior adviser with Sperry Van Ness commercial real estate advisers in Oklahoma City. At 26, he already is a well-established veteran of commercial ...
Linens 'n Things to Close 120 Stores, Dispose of Real Estate (Commercial Property News)	7/5/2008 11:01 AM
Linens Holding Co., a home furnishings specialty retailer operating as Linens 'n Things, announced today the hiring of DJM Realty, a national retail real estate disposition firm, to exclusively manage the disposition of 120 underperforming stores that the company targeted for closure as part of its restructuring.
DREI draws 960 participants for Real Estate Certified Practitioner's Training Course (AME Info)	7/5/2008 3:00 AM
Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI), the first specialised real estate academic institution in the region, today announced nearly 960 Practicing Real Estate agents have so far completed the Real Estate Certified Practitioner's Training Course, which aims to qualify brokers as real estate specialists in the Dubai market.
Real estate: Standing out in the crowd (Florida Today)	7/4/2008 11:33 PM
Villagio del Mar townhomes are three of a kind. "There's nothing like them anywhere," said Ron Wallen, an agent for Pruitt Real Estate on Merritt Island who is marketing the community for W3 Development Group.
Gazprom's real estate subsidiary to invest one bln euros in Morocco (Zawya)	7/5/2008 5:04 AM
TANGIER, Morocco, July 4, 2008 (AFP) - The real estate subsidiary of Russian gas giant Gazprom is to invest nearly one billion euros in northern Morocco, an aide told AFP Friday.

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