Don't despair if you are short on cash. You can still have a beautiful Chattanooga home. Sometimes a little elbow grease is a decent replacement for extravagant money, and other times you can get great deals by shopping around for items that are usually costly.

Preparing your home before selling is crucial to making a strong impression on potential buyers. Here are five key things to consider:

To get a Hixson home to sell during a buyer’s market, it needs to look better than the other houses on the street.  Making just a few quick changes can make all the difference when trying to best the competition.  Here are a few things to do to make your home stand out

In real estate, commissions are fees paid to real estate agents or brokers for their services in facilitating a property transaction. Here's how they typically work

Selling a home is complicated and full of legal issues that anyone considering selling "by owner" needs to be aware of.  However, two of the most important things you need to know in order to be successful as a FSBO (for sale by owner) home seller have nothing to do with legal issues. 

To make an as is offer on a Chattanooga home is to state that you, the buyer, will take the property in the condition it is in as of the date you make the offer, and will not ask the seller to do any work or repairs to the home. You can see why these offers are so attractive to sellers; they love the idea of being able to mentally move on from this home to the next one as soon as they accept your offer. In the olden days, many states required that certain basic condition standards be met by every property sold, whether or not the buyer asked the seller to do any work: no broken windows, no termites, etc.

The national real estate market, state markets and city markets all seemed to be wrapped up in a nifty bundle that effect whether your Signal Mountian home for sale will have a buyer. With the news reports over the last two years about the pop of the housing bubble, homeowners everywhere essentially lost their minds.

Typically, the home inspection occurs after you have a contract on your home. It will uncover any problems with the home, whether large or small. Most buyers will use issues found on a home inspection to renegotiate the price of the home, ask for you to make repairs or they may even walk away. At the very least, a buyer’s estimate may be more costly to the seller’s bottom line.

What would an upward or lower price adjustment look like based on the current market CMA? Well, let’s look at an example. Let’s say that the CMA of previously and recently sold similar homes shows that the listing price should be around $235,000.