Selling Your Home

Dickson has unlimited resources and reach when it comes to selling homes. We are the market share leader for a reason; we sell more homes than any other real estate firm in the Northern Nevada/Lake Tahoe/Truckee area. Period.

Selling your house doesn’t have to be a complicated process. Dickson’s resources for sellers are designed to provide the information you need to make selling your house as easy as possible.

Advice for Selling Your Home

Pricing

Your Dickson Agent will provide you with a comparative market analysis based on:

• Neighborhood comps from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
• Existing real estate market
• Existing financial environment
• Title company records

Preparing the Property

Your Dickson Agent will walk through and make a visual inspection:

• Agent inspection/marketing consultation
• Possible recommendations:
• Termite inspection
• Structural inspection
• Structural inspection
• Decorator inspection
• Heating/Cooling inspection
• Recommendations of repairs and cosmetic updating

Listing the Property

Your Dickson Agent will:

• Prepare the forms for the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
• Prepare all legal documents
• Prepare and organize advertising campaign
• Draft brochure for Seller’s approval
• Make duplicate keys
• Submit all forms for input and approval
• Place “For Sale” sign
• Schedule all still photography
• Review and file completed Seller’s Real Property Disclosure Statements
• Order preliminary title report
• Arrange showing schedule with Seller

Touring

• Dickson Realty agents preview
• Organize, if appropriate, city-wide agent tour
• Schedule Buyer appointment

Weekly

Your Dickson Agent will review:

• * The results of all showings
• * Review advertising responses
• * Pre-qualify potential buyers
• * Review any offers with seller
• * Call agents who have shown the property and report results

Receiving an Offer

Your Dickson Agent will:

• Present an offer and review contract and all paperwork
• Open escrow and prepare escrow fact sheet to track contingency removal deadlines.
• Specify necessary disclosures and reports.
• Coordinate appraisal and all inspections
• Prepare pertinent documents for Buyer’s approval
• Verify Buyer’s loan application has been submitted to lender
• Review preliminary title report and take action on any inaccuracies
• Confirm existing loan payoff demands
• Review all inspections and assist in crafting response
• Counsel Seller through negotiations
• Confirm contingency removals and have pertinent documents signed
• Work through any problems that might come up through the escrow period
• Schedule Seller’s signing appointment with escrow officer
• Arrange key transfer with Buyer
• Confirm actual recordation of the property with the title company
• Arrange delivery of Seller’s closing documentation and proceeds

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