5 House Selling Tips: How To Sell Your House in a Weekend

When you want to sell your house quickly with the least amount of hassle, you have to have a stategy. These five tips will help you get a contract on your house for sale in a weekend.

PRICE is king. Always! To attract the most buyers, price your house a little bit lower then you think you should. People are curious, and they want a deal. So more people will come to look at your house for sale. When negotiating, you will be able to leverage the massive interest to increase the sale price.

Get your house date ready! Remember when you first walked into your house and fell in love. What was it about the place that made your heart go thump thump? You have to recreate the same feeling for the prospective homeowner. Now it's time to roll up your sleeves or open up that wallet to clean, de-clutter, pack up, stage, and fix up minor fixes.

Make a list of things you love about your house so you can highlight it in the sales process. Also, make a list of the things you don't like or hate about your house. These are going to be objections buyers may have to your house, so get in front of those now.

Move out now! Even if it is for a weekend that you want to sell it in. Make the house completely available and remove your essence out of it. Buyers want to see themselves in their new home. Give the buyer the experience that the home is already theirs.

Create urgency and clear deadlines. Set clear expectations when offers are due. Give yourself (& your agent) enough time between offer deadline and acceptance, for negotiations, due diligence on the buyer, and decision making.

And for Bonus round: Always accept backup offers!
It's leverage.