Seller's guide

This guideline will take you through the selling process of your home. Knowing if you are ready to sell and understanding the following procedures will eventually lead you to receive that big check for selling your home. The ultimate goal in selling a home is to GET THE HIGHEST SELLING PRICE and to SELL IT QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. The professionals are here to facilitate these concerns and to service you to achieve these ultimate goals. Click on each icon to find out more about each step.

Should I move?

Am I ready to sell my house?

Moving from one house to another is a huge undertaking and should not be considered lightly. If you have been in your house or an apartment for only a year, walk around and look at the amount of "stuff" you have accumulated. Not just what you use every day, but everything. It is a lot of "stuff" to move from one location to another, and what will be the benefit of taking everything?

Look at the neighborhood you live in and ask yourself some questions. Are you really attached to it? Why do you like it? Can you move to another neighborhood like it with a minimum of hassle? Would you like to find a much bigger house in the same neighborhood?

On the upside, much of the residential real estate in the Chicago Metro area has had huge increases in value in recent years and if you are considering moving, you would be wise to factor in the financial benefit of selling your house at an improved or an appreciated price. You will then have the choice of using the profit margin to move into a larger home in any neighborhood you choose.

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Educate Yourself

Continental Realty Group, Inc. website is equipped with several useful tools to facilitate your home-selling process.

Items such as our eNeighborhood, Property Search and our Home Buying Guide are readily available and they will help you make the right decision when you believe you are ready to sell your home.

Additionally, you may at any time contact us either by phone at 847-839-0101 or via email at contact@groupcontinental.net for further guidance to determine if now is the right time to sell your home.

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Find an agent

Continental Realty Group, Inc. has excellent agents working with us right now and are anxious to hearing from you. Our agents are not only experienced in making real estate transactions, but the majority of them have been successful in other businesses as well. The breadth of experience grants our agents an expertise that is then offer to you at your disposal.

The cross training we enjoy with our agents allows us to make fast and effortless use of the most recent updates in house-hunting and sales technology, as well as apply good and proven business methods to maximize your after-sale profit to help you find your next house.

To find a Realtor, Click Here.

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Price your home

Let's face it, everyone has an opinion of what your home is worth - you do, the construction worker down the block does and the local real estate salesperson sending you those postcards do too.

The question is, who is right?

Continental Realty Group, Inc. will help you price your home based on a number of factors, including market appreciation, the relative condition of your home, the location, any special features and what value they really add to the home. The availability of other homes for sale in the immediate vicinity also helps in determining your property value.

To find out the value of your home, Click Here.

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Accept an offer

So now that we have marketed your home, created your virtual open house and offered incentives to your Buyers, you now have offers to purchase your home. No surprise here, we knew you have a beautiful home priced right and marketed well, so now it is a matter of deciding which offer to accept.

Continental Realty Group, Inc. will be the point of contact between you and your buyers, which will allow us to get the deal done today if possible. We do not believe in waiting when selling a home, especially when we are discussing multiple offers. We will help you decide which offer is really the best based on price, purchase closing time, strength of the buyer, and several other factors. After all, this is the most important investment you will ever make, you need the best advice and guidance you can get and you need it now. Continental Realty Group has a team of dedicated professionals who are here to make your deal a profitable one.

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Preparing to move

Once you accept an offer to purchase your home, you need to think about a couple things - where am I going to live now and how am I going to accomplish this?

Moving is usually a time-consuming, painful and an expensive task.

Here are a couple of tips to make the moving process as smooth for you as possible.

When packing up your life, it is a common theme to put this task off to the last moment and then go into stroke-level stress the week or day before the move. This is entirely uncalled for and not necessary.

The time to start packing is once the contract is negotiated, and the home inspector and the appraiser have been thru the house. Do not pack up your house until these people have been thru the house as you want it to look its best for the inspections, but as soon as they are done, start packing up the things you will not need right away and get them out of your way or even out of the house.

It is possible to rent a storage unit for a brief time while you are trying to figure out what to do with all of your belongings and this way you have no pressure to get it out of your friend's basement by a certain time or have to spend valuable moving time deciding what to keep and what to throw away. This way you can be out of your old home and into your new one quickly and efficiently.

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Close the Sale

The best outcome of closing process is for everybody involved in the transaction to have a big smile. You are happy that your house was sold, and the buyer is excited that he has a new set of keys for his new house. You will be buying another home and moving your things in very soon, but you can relax for now. You will sign few pieces of paper giving legal ownership of the property to the buyer, and in return you will get a check from the title company, which will be the profit from selling the house, minus the cost of paying off any current mortgages you may have on the property.

Congratulations!!

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