THE HOME SELLING PROCESS

Sell Your Home

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Where to Start?
Prepare Yourself Get Your House Ready Pricing Your Home Marketing From Offer to Closing
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Your house is one of the biggest financial investments of your lifetime.

Selling your home may bring nervousness, emotion, anticipation and questions. We are here to make sure you have all of the tools necessary to make the best possible decisions. This includes walking you through the systems and processes that we have developed, tested and refined for more than 150 years.

Your interests, goals and dreams are our number one priority. To help you achieve them, you may want to start thinking about some big questions.

  • What are your goals? What is your timeline for selling or moving?
  • What is most important to you?
  • What are the different scenarios or options that you would consider?

When you partner with a Ruhl&Ruhl Realtor, you will work with him or her to go through current market trends and discuss pricing and marketing strategies. All of these conversations will maximize your chance to sell within your timeline, receive the most at closing and set you up for success in selling your home.

Seller FAQ
Step 1
Prepare Yourself
Your time is valuable. To save time and kick start a smooth and efficient selling process, you want to gather essential documents and ask yourself some of the big questions before meeting with your Ruhl&Ruhl Realtor.
Know all the steps involved
You’ll want to understand the market conditions, start to think about your timeline for the move and familiarize yourself with the steps between now and the closing table. Learn more about what you can do to prepare by reading the Seller’s Homework below.
Do your homework
As you work through the items below, jot down any questions or concerns that you have so you can be sure to discuss them with your agent.
Think about Your Ideal Timeline - Things you should consider
  • When you want or need to move
  • Your alternate plan if your home doesn’t sell in your ideal timeframe
  • Your most pressing concerns about time
  • The earliest and latest acceptable closing dates
  • If you received an offer today, what would you do?
List of Updates
Prepare a list of enhancements/updates you have done since you have owned the property and dates they were completed.
Your Home
What do you like about your home? If you were to stay for another 5 years, what, if anything, would you change?
Communication
What is your preferred method of communication? Who needs to be notified of updates during the real estate process?
Additional Guides for Sellers
Step 2
Get Your House Ready
Your time is valuable. To save time and kick start a smooth and efficient selling process, you want to gather essential documents and ask yourself some of the big questions before meeting with your Ruhl&Ruhl Realtor.
To a buyer, value is determinded by five factors
These include physical location, your property's features and amenities, the floor plan, price and the condition of your home.
Increase your home’s value and marketability to potential buyers
Just a little time invested into cost-effective improvements will help increase your home’s value and marketability to potential buyers. Below are some general tips, but your agent will be able to help you determine what updates are most important to get your property ready.
Guides for getting your home ready to sell
Step 3
Pricing Your Home
Real estate is unique because no two properties are exactly the same. This can make pricing confusing.
How to get it just right
The first place we’ll start is by looking at historical data of properties similar to yours that sold. We will go back 6-12 months to find properties similar in style, location, size, features and amenities and make adjustments to come up with an estimated market value. This value will most likely be within 10% of the final selling price of your property.
However, our conversations won’t end there. We will also look at the current properties on the market (competition), list to sales price ratios, and supply and demand. All of these factors play a strong role in our pricing strategy and ultimately how we will position your property in the market to net you the most amount of money at closing and give you the highest probability of selling within your allotted time frame.
Read more about our pricing strategies below, or feel free to call us or email us with any questions you may have. You can also click here to find a Ruhl&Ruhl agent.
Guides for pricing your home
Step 4
Marketing
To maximize our marketing, we conduct research into where the buyers are looking for homes. This information helps us to sell your house in your ideal timeframe and net you the most possible money at closing.
Not all Marketing is Equal
When you hire a Realtor, there are minimum items you can expect to be done to sell your home. While all are valuable services that will help market your home, if you hire a Ruhl&Ruhl agent, your Ruhl Experience will be different. We provide you and your home with a tailored marketing and exposure plan to put your property in the best position possible to sell.
Find out steps we take to market your home
Step 5
From Offer to Closing
Ultimately, you will make all of the decisions, but we are here to advise you through the process.
What to do once you have an offer
A professional Ruhl&Ruhl agent will be key to negotiating the offer with the buyer's agent and potential buyer. And once the offer is accepted, you’ll begin to think about the moving process.
Negotiations and Contingencies
One of the most valuable benefits to having a Ruhl&Ruhl agent is their ability to effectively negotiate with and influence your buyer to agree to your terms. Your agent’s negotiation effectiveness will rely on your communicating with your agent about what’s most important to you during your sale.
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Getting Ready for the Move
Preparing for closing can be stressful. Don't worry! We have put together some helpful links and tips for you during this time.
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Bettendorf, IA 52722