Real Estate For Sale By Owner Hampton Roads

We are currently looking for some interior design specialist here in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, or anywhere else in Hampton Roads, Virginia.  We are expanding our real estate services to include a "Prepare to Sell" Service for home-owners looking to sell their home in the near future.

 The first step to selling a home is preparation.  You should never, ever, ever attempt to sell your home prior to preparing your home for sale.  You will be leaving money on the table if you don't adequately prepare, and you may let qualified buyers slip through your fingers.  In order to sell your house, you should do the following things:

1. Enhance the curb appeal of your home.  This may include painting the front door, cleaning up any messes in the front yard, landscaping, updating your outside light fixtures, taking the trash cans around back, buying some potted plants for around the front door, among other things.
2. Move as much of your belongings out of the home as possible.  Clearing clutter is absolutely essential for maximizing the offers that buyers make.  You may want to get a storage unit, and move old furniture or clutter to the unit, so your home looks open and spacious.  Take down any family photos, pictures, and items that personalize your place.  Prospective buyers do not want to see these things.
3. Update the light fixtures in the house.  You can update all the fixtures in a home for less than a couple of hundred dollars.
4. Paint the entire place.  Off-white is the easiest color to paint, because you don't have to be careful with your cut-lines, which are the lines between the walls and ceiling.  You should be able to paint an entire house off-white within a couple of days, and spend less than a couple of hundred dollars.
5. Hire an interior decorator.  Spending $2000.00 to help stage your home for selling, should make it easier to sell your home, and should help you get top-dollar when selling.

If you are an interior decorator, or a home-renovator, or a home-owner seeking our services, please give us a call at 724-1428. 

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As interest rates start to increase, sellers are having a harder time selling their properties at premium prices.  The last thing you probably want to do is shell out a 6% commission to a realty company for listing your home.

Through use of this website, you can post your Virginia Beach Real Estate, Chesapeake Real Estate, Norfolk Real Estate, and any other home you have in Hampton Roads for free.  This website gets 50,000 visitors a week in search engine traffic. 

I created this website, so that I could easily market the properties I OWN.  Well, for that to be successful, the site has to be getting traffic even when I am not selling or renting a property here in Hampton Roads, VA.  By allowing you to post your listing here for free, the site will be getting continual traffic, and when I have a property available, I simply post it online, and I have exposure to 10's of thousands of buyers and renters each and every week.

I hate shelling out money for advertising, especially to real estate companies that charge 6% off the top.  It costs $200 to put a 4-line ad in the Virginian Pilot newspaper for one week.  This is just ridiculous.  If it takes you a month to sell your home, you have spent about a thousand dollars just in advertising.

Take advantage, and list your Hampton Roads property, whether it is a rental or a home for sale.  No other site in the area will let you post your information for free. Simply go to the homepage at www.WeWillBuyYourHouseFast.com and choose the For Sale By Owner option at the top of the page.

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Hello All, I have a For Sale By Owner property that is available in Virginia Beach, VA.  It is a 2 bed 2 bath property in Chimney Hill.  It was the first house I purchased, and I lived there for 2 years.  During the last year, I have been renting the property out for $950/month.  The tenants have taken very good care of the property.  A comparable unit just sold for 169,000, but it did not have as many updates, and the place was only 1.5 baths.  I am asking 165K.  Please Call Shaun O'Toole at 757-724-1428. Here is a link to the property flyer with several pictures. 

 http://www.wewillbuyyourhousefast.com/Chimney_Hill_Flyer.doc

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Chesapeake Virginia Brokers - Hello all brokers out there.  I am about to open a real estate branch around the Battlefield area of Chesapeake, somewhat close to the WalMart, Sams Club, Lowe's and Home Depot.  I do not have my broker's license, so I need to hire a broker into the office.  The franchise is new in Virginia, but the business model should help the office grow very fast.  There is a lot of upside potential for the candidate. 

A little about me, and why you may want to work with me: My Name is Shaun OToole, and I am 28 years old.  I have worked for 4 different corporations over the last 5 years, and I started a real estate company Easy Property Solutions, LLC last year.  I bought my first house 3 years ago, but I have purchased another 4 in the last year.  I have sold 2 homes, and I still own 3.  I have always taken the path of being the real estate investor, but I want to move into the brokerage business to better leverage my energies.  I have several local real estate websites, and I am getting 100,000 hits a month of localized traffic.  I am getting leads out the ying-yang for sellers and buyers, and I figure, I might as well make use of that.  I am also building several other websites, and I plan on attracting many more buyers and sellers from search engine marketing, because it's free, and it's easy. 

I am most interested in conducting business in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Norfolk.  So whether you are currently an associate or Principal Broker in Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, or Norfolk, give me a call to talk about the details.  Shaun OToole 724-1428.

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Looking at the Real Estate Market in Virginia Beach from 2001-2005.  I think it's funny the way most people think.  We were all taught to buy low and sell high from pretty much the day we were born.  This isn't what people do however.  When people start to notice that the prices of real estate, or stocks, or anything for that matter are going up, they gain interest.  Only after seeing sustained increases over time, do many people start to think it is a good idea to buy.  They think the double-digit increases will never stop, and they soon will be millionaires.  I have to admit this happened to me in the stock market tech bubble burst in 2001.  I turned $5,000 into $40,000 to that point, but I got greedy and lost it all. 

People start to buy real estate, I've noticed here in Virginia Beach, after the prices have gone up substantially....Granted, they bought at low interest rates, but the prices were high.  Now we are seeing a trend of increaing interest rates, which means the market is slowing, and it is much easier to get a bargain price.  Yet people sit on their hands.  People would rather get a house at a high price and a low interest rate than a house at a low price and a high interest rate.

Me personally, I would rather get a house at a bargain, and re-finance it later.  Most people follow the herd.  The only way to be financially successful is to go against the herd, and follow simple economics...buy low and sell high.....despite what happens to interest rates.  When the interest rates drop again, the prices will go up again, and you will be glad you made the tough decision.

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