Another Strategy For Preparing To Sell While Waiting To Buy
Scott P. Rogers
As described yesterday, sometimes you might have to think about whether you are willing to move twice.
If you'd really rather not move twice -- but you need to sell in order to buy -- and it will be harder to find something to buy than it will be to sell -- so you don't want to list your current home for sale until your future home appears...
Then maybe, just maybe, we need to think about timing and sequencing a bit differently.
Instead of this...
- Look for your next house.
- Find your next house.
- Meet at your current house to talk about pricing and preparations.
- Make final preparations to your house.
- Photograph your house.
- List your house for sale.
Maybe it needs to be this...
- Meet at your current house to talk about pricing and preparations.
- Make final preparations to your house.
- Photograph your house.
- Look for your next house.
- Find your next house.
- List your house for sale.
By changing around the sequence (preparing and photographing your current home ahead of time) we will be ready to list your home almost *instantly* when a home comes on the market that you are excited to pursue.
So -- give it some thought -- would re-ordering the steps as described above make sense for your situation? Would it allow you to more quickly move towards a successful transition from one house to the next?
