For Home Sellers

Selling your home should be seamless. Making the smart move of choosing an experienced Chicago REALTOR® is your first step to ensuring that your investment in your home pays off. My services and experience allow you to focus on your move while I manage your home sale from our initial consultation to the closing deal, and beyond. I pride myself on repeat business and hope you’ll come to understand why.

What I will do for you
Recently Sold Properties
Getting the highest price
Closing Costs

As Your Agent, I will do all of things an experienced realtor should be expected to do:

Complete a comparative market analysis that will compare your home’s value to that of sold like-kind properties in your neighborhood or building.
Compile a comprehensive marketing plan detailing all the efforts I will employ to sell your home, including Internet professional photography and local media.

Tailored Marketing Program

Present your home to as many qualified buyers as possible getting your home maximum exposure.
Help you stage your home and generate curb appeal to ensure you get the highest price.
Assist with obtaining offers and help you in negotiating the best deal as smoothly as possible.
Help you find your next home and answer all of your questions about the local market area, including schools, neighborhoods, the local economy, and more.
Timely follow-up of feedback from showings

I will go above and beyond the expected elements of selling your home by doing the following:

Having a background in building rehabs, I can offer an estimate of costs and a list of reliable referrals of handyman services, contractors and other vendors for home fixes.
Utilize creative marketing strategies such as electronic brochures, Social Networking, Utube video and other streaming video sites
Offer the most diverse internet exposure with enhanced listings on sites such as Realtor.com, Prudential’s prupref.com and Trulia.com
Offer affordable and experienced real estate attorneys who will work for your interest and work in tandem as a team to sell your place
Offer an exclusive tracking program (OSA) On-line Seller Advantage you can receive daily, weekly or monthly providing sellers with actual numbers of traffic coming to see your property.

Offer the ability to market your property through blogs like: Cribchatter.com or the ChicagoMagazine.com blog
Offer Historic Preservation Real Estate Advisor who can assist with homes in Preservation or Historic Districts

Recent Home Sales

What are homes selling for on your street? Use my customized market analysis to find out what neighborhood homes are selling for, free of charge, or choose a more detailed analysis of the value of your home.

Getting the Highest Price for Your Home

Curb appeal is key and could make a difference whether people stop and take a flyer, or drive right by. Here are a few tips to increase the curb appeal of your home. Staging your home is important. Many buyers will stay in your home longer if it’s staged appropriately. I have compiled some ideas to present your home in the most effective manner.

Closing Costs to Expect:

Title insurance fees depend on the sales price of the home.
Broker’s commission is a full-service fee and will cost anywhere between 5% to 7%.
Local property transfer tax, county transfer tax, state transfer tax, and state capital gains tax are the charges that you’ll pay for the privilege of selling your home. Credit to the buyer of unpaid real estate taxes for the prior or current year are variable and depend on when you close and when your taxes are due. In the City of Chicago, the seller is responsible to pay a $3.00 sellers transfer tax for every one thousand dollars sold. For Example, a $100,000 property would require the seller to pay the city, $300 at closing.
FHA fees and costs are all fees are now negotiable between an FHA buyer and seller.
Home inspections fees are in some circumstances paid for by the seller and include pest, radon and other inspections.
Miscellaneous fees can accrue from correcting problems noticed during the home inspection.