YouTube sells, real estate agent says

POSTING A WALKING TOUR OF CLIENT'S HOME ON FREE VIDEO SITE LEADS TO SALE
By Barbara E. Hernandez
This article referenced can be found at Mercury News.

So this real estate agent takes her digital camera. Not video camera but a digital camera that takes small clips. She takes little clips of the inside of her clients house and puts it up on You Tube. She gets several offers right away and sells the house.

You may be thinking why would a guy that is offering a course on how to sell your house, tell people about something as simple as this?

The same reason why I told you in a previous post about a resource where you can get owner finance buyers from for very little money.

Because this gives credence to what I am offering in Secret Strategies To Sell Your House.

In fact I have a good section on how you can take the pictures, maps, and information that you learn how to easily gather, and using an easy to use free down loadable piece of software create your own video about your house.

You receive links in the resources section for two or three free software packages related to doing just that. I don't leave you hanging. I explain in simple easy to accomplish actions steps how to do all of this and more.

In both the audio files and in the pdf you will learn not only how to accomplish what this real estate agent did but a whole lot more and all at no cost.

In Secret Strategies To Sell your House, I have also a small fee resource that I reveal to you, sort of inside information, about how and where to put this advertising to accomplish so much more than You tube placement.

This is just a small portion of the over 100 strategies techniques and tactics that you can download right now and start putting into effect immediately.

If you have a house that you need to move get "Secret Strategies To Sell Your House" and give yourself some peace of mind for the holidays.

If you want different results take different actions.

Regards
Jim Pathos

Here Are Buyers For Your House, Sell This Week.

Wow. Your thinking that is a bold claim but it is true.

One of the tactics that is included in the "Secret Strategies To Sell Your House" audio/ebook is that of owner financing.

Wait. Hear Me Out.

Two things with owner financing.

One, you get your price since you are providing terms.

Two, the buyers wanting owner financing are preconditioned for the down payment.

Let's take it one step further. Offer your home as a lease purchase. I know you do not want to rent. Lease purchase is not rental.

Also in "Secret Strategies To Sell your House" there is detailed explanations and sources that will enable you to offer owner financing without holding the paper.

Here is your solution.

Ok so you need to move your house. You don't have time to market for, advertise to a prequalify buyers.

Exactly why the information that I am sharing with you is so important.

I am sharing with you today a resource that will provide to you with leads local to your area of lease option buyers that have down payments and are ready to move.

You can prescreen them before you contact them. This saves you time not chasing dead ends. This saves you money not knowing what you return will be on ad dollars.

See link below.

That gets your house sold. A lease option is quick.

Once you order the "Secret Strategies to Sell Your House" that will give you resources to get your new tenants a mortgage once they are qualified.

Also there are resources that will prequalify your buyers if you wish.

Some may be qualified right away others may need to work on credit their credit. Either way you have your house payments being covered by other than you.

Maybe you just need the buyers. That resource is below.

Of course I hope you claim a copy of Secret Strategies for yourself.

At any rate put your email address in the email to post box on the upper right as I will be giving some more great resources like the lease option buyers below.

Any house will sell.

All you need to do is to have enough capable and motivated buyers walk through it, and somebody will fall in love with it and take it.

Your problem is:

1. Getting a steady stream of potential buyers looking at the house
2. That have down payments
3. that are ready to move
4. Has the down payment you require
5. and is looking for a home like yours

Can be tough to do right?

Now there is a new service that can help provide you exactly this.

Motivated tenant buyers, ready to move, that understand the lease purchase process.

They have money to put down, they tell you their rent budget, where they are looking for a home, how many beds and baths they want etc...

You prescreen them online by qualifying them based on all the above criteria.

If you find some that do, you purchase only those leads - not more, not less. Now you have achieved several things in one:

1. Saved marketing dollars. You are only spending money on leads you prescreened BEFORE you paid for them

2. Saved mortgage payments. You sold the home quicker because you are talking to better qualified prospects, and more of them.

3. Saved time. No more showings or prequals or ringing phones. You make the calls to buyers that YOU want to talk to - and they are expecting your call, hoping that their phone will ring.

Lease Purchase Leads - The fast way to sell your lease purchase properties.

See The Man With The Stage Frite

Listen to Introduction Secret Strategies To Sell Your House

Secret Strategies to Sell Your House was the first time that I had to listen to my own voice. At first I was a little self conscious. I didn't really push the fact that I had a 30 minute introduction audio for free at Basics To Start with. I sort of thought that it might put people off.

Then I played it for a friend of mine. I must be a glutton for punishment. My buddy is an A type personality who really had no problem giving me the business about anything. When it ended I had braced myself for the onslaught.

What I got suprised me.

He wanted to hear more.

I asked if he thought it needed to be done by a professional. He said he didn't care if it was done by daffy duck. Having read the accompanying pdf he wanted to know where were the rest of the 4.5 hours of audio.

His only question was. "Do you explain everything in simple straight forward language?." I said as simple and plain as the intro is the whole series is.

He wanted to know if he could play this on his I pod or cd player in his car? Absolutely, "just burn it to a cd or download it to your I pod."

He admitted to me that he was only able to scan the pdf and because of the way it was written he was able to pull out the individual strategies that he wanted to know more about. He said time was an issue for him. Having all of this explained with audio made it easier for him to take it in and apply it.

This is a guy who makes his living selling, houses, investments, businesses you name it. This guy is not a green pea when it comes to marketing. It was a great confidence booster to me.

Not being a professional speaker I was worried about that. Also I could make it beautiful over about two or three weeks. Pretty cover slick website stereo sound the works. I asked Bill if he thought that was necessary.

He told me he knew at least five guys off the top of his head that would pay twice what I am asking for this info. The last thing he asked me was where was his copy.

It's been a great day.

My suggestion to you is to go take a listen. It is a flash button just below the book cover in the center of the page. It is 30 minutes it will start streaming right away.

If you need to sell your house or know someone who does you need to get this now because I am raising the price in a few days. That is as soon as I get my affiliate situation worked out and the pretty cover and slick sales page up .

this is available for immediate download here.
There is also a pdf of the introduction available as well.

Oh
Here is wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Healthy Wealthy New Year.

Will post soon
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Secrets to Sell Your House Explained

Man. I feel like I had a baby. I finally completed the final edit of the Secret Strategies To Sell Your House pdf. Then I recorded and edited down to over 4 hours and 23 minutes of audio files in mp3 format.

I went through it and counted over 100 Secret Strategies, Techniques, Tips and Tricks to Sell Your House. It is a lot of information. The hardest part was keeping it simple.

The real estate market has slowed. Depending on what you read. I feel the difference is if there is reporting and then there is trying to create the news. More on that later. Right now…

A person needs to put a little more effort in marketing their house.

There is nothing you can do about the market or what happened yesterday. You are helpless to change things out of your control. We all know why we got into the houses that we now need to sell. The dreams of making huge profits in real estate are still alive, if only in our hearts.

The old tactics and strategies are just that, old. That was all we had. Handing your listing off to a Realtor is like trying to pick six.

What we need are new perspectives, new strategies.

Finally NEW tools are available that will help you sell your house in today’s market.

Claim your copy of these new strategies and together we will make your house stand apart from the crowd of me too’ers on the MLS. We will quietly smash the competition using new strategies and new twists on some of the old ways.

I am very proud of what I have included in this package. It is pretty evenly split between online and off-line tactics.

Every tactic and strategy is explained in detail. It is real easy to follow. You will receive a a great deal of free and very low cost resources to help you.

This is one of the reasons that you now see ‘for the Average Joe’ in the title. Even though we have simplified some very advanced tactics to get referrals and traffic to look at your house.

The ‘Average Joe’ Moniker is still appropriate because you are supplied simple to the point explanations and easy to follow resources and tools. The time was spent developing the information not packaging. Here is the cover we are using so far.

You will employ proven tactics from several other industries and apply them to home selling. Everything is explained in detail. There is so much new in here. A new way to use the open house, a way to offer owner finance without holding the paper, other ways to monetize the home if the price is tight…. strategy, resources and how revealed to you in easy to apply action steps.

Included are the same tactics that I have used to get 3500 page views a day for my blog and website starting Nov 1 to today. You also get a great resources section that my partners have told me is worth a lot more than the amount you have paid.

I will post more about this later. You know the making of the product. I wanted to launch for cyber Monday but it took longer. We spent the time unlocking the magic that exists in the strategies you will use to sell your house.

By the way Discover these secrets for only $77.00 for a limited time. Once I get caught up with everything that I have to do That is going to increase to $97.00 pretty quickly.

My target is $137.00 for the digital product and I will be going to $167.00 for the hard copy version after the first of the year.

You will get your copy using LuLu .com for immediate download because it is easy and also 100% secure. LuLu is a big name in the digital content business. We felt this was key to keeping our clients transactions smooth

We will be setting up affiliate and other payment systems as time permits.

This package is a portion of a package that I have been working on called build homes for profit. Since I had all of this laid out I thought I would produce this part first. These are the same strategies and techniques that we use but have never explained to anyone before.

We are going to market with a new round of new construction homes 7 in total in the next 30-45 days holiday depending. I am not a professional writer, speaker or salesman. I am a guy who does the work more behind the scenes. A face for radio as they say.

So be gentle... overlook any typos and my speech on the audio. If you focus on the messages you won’t care about my speech or typing. Hey if it gets your house sold it can be written in crayon Right?

Oh…….go to the LULU link above for the free intro pdf but I have the 30 minute audio introduction talking about mindset on basicstostartwith.com

Grab your copy today and start applying the tactics tomorrow.

Also put your email address in the little box on the right side of this page to receive all new posts in your email.

More to follow

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Get Secret Strategies To Sell Your House Today

Long time no hear.
Between the tryptophan coma and actually completing "Secret Strategies To Sell Your House" I have been busy.

I have to tell you that I am both proud and exhausted. The item that I have been promising for weeks is now here.

4 and 1/2 hours of audio files explaining in detail over 100 secret strategies tips tricks and techniques to sell your house that the average joe can use in today's marketplace.

As of 4 am this morning it is available for immediate download at LuLu.com
There is a pdf of the first chapter and a sample audio of the introduction on basicstostartwith.com

I will submit the actual ad in a little while

Man I was so tired I only saved this post and didn't publish it
Anyway here goes

Sell Your House: Deal Fairly

A deal isn't a good deal unless it's fair to both sides of the table. This is something to keep in mind especially if you are considering carrying some or all of the mortgage.

So let's look at the first statement and why is this even remotely important? You've heard the saying "good vibes", you have felt this yourself. Perhaps you call it something else. The fact is people pick up on things. We all know this to be true to some extent.

If you are trying to cover something up prospective buyers will get a 'wierd feeling' when you talk. Like something isn't right. If something is amiss they will smell it to one degree or another.

Honesty is the best policy. So if there is something detrimental, past roof leak, garage over property line, it is best to disclose it right away. Then you can explain repairs or improvements and how you solved the problem.

By sharing this experience with a prospect they get to know you. More importantly you establish credibility and can then direct the conversation to your advantage. They will pick up that yopu are being honest with them and they will like that. We do business with people that we like.

As for the second part of my opening statement. 'This is something to keep in mind especially if you are considering carrying some or all of the mortgage.' Owner financing is a very effective tactic in a tight marketplace. Either by carrying part to assist with financing or carrying the entire mortgage.

Either way you will need the assistance of a real estate attorney or a good title company if you have no experience. This is fairly styright forward, you end up with a mortgage payments from the buyer at one to two points above prime.

The advantage of this is you will usually get full boat price that you asked for your house. It's price or terms not both. You want to be fair to the buyer and yourself. There are some things to consider.

First the buyer. After looking at his financials and credit report and understanding why he can't just go to the bank. Do you feel that he will pay? What does your gut tell you. Are you picking up anything? Take a couple of days to contemplate this.

Have you covered your bases legally? If unsure this is where a paid attorney comes in not just cornering a friend for free advice. I mean what happens if you have to foreclose or collect this mortgage by legal means.

These questions when answered will do two things. One, you will have a clear understanding if you want to offer any type of owner financing. Two, this will lead to covering your bases. Protect yourself, be fair with the buyer and you have a distinct advantage in the marketplace.

Do your homework

Till next time

Staging to Sell Your House

Staging to sell your house. I think everyone is hip to this. Mostly from watching shows like flip this house, million dollar listing and others.

Many people are going nuts with this. You are supposed to be staging the home to sell it so your personal tastes aren't the issue. I understand. You may be thinking to yourself that 'your' personal tastes are such, most all refined , genteel people as yourself would love what you love.

So reel it in a little bit okay?

You want to sell your house right? So you want to appeal to everyone. The easiest way to do this is to go generic. Plain simple color schemes. Such as white and soft colors, tan, blue.

Keep it simple.

Spending 2500 on Victorian era heavy drapes might not be the ideal.

Keep it simple.

Think of the house you are trying to sell like a blank canvas or clean slate. You want the buyer to fill it in with their imagination. If they can't see or imagine what they like fitting into the home it's a barrier to purchase.

Maybe a limited barrier but you want all the help you can get. Also don't put yourself into the furniture business. If you are not paid as a professional interior designer maybe you want to rent staging furniture and the like.

I realize that when you watch the real estate shows on TV they say you can get three times the value of the furniture in the home. Everyone else saw that show as well.

So if you are living in the home you can allow the furnishings to be an option if you wish but don't push. Keep the transaction simple. You want the perception to be that buying your home is easy and uncomplicated.

Some other suggestions.

Make sure the kitchen counters are bare, devoid of any appliances, bottles cute spice racks and cutting boards. The refrigerator must have nothing on top of it and no pics, magnets and cute stuff on the front of it.

It goes without saying but I will say it anyway. the house must be clean top to bottom and uncluttered, even if you are living in it. If your teenagers are a problem have them stay at grandma's while you schedule showings or have your open house. Clean and uncluttered goes for the garage, driveway, porches, yards and closets.

Open all window coverings, shades, drapes and or blinds. Let the sun shine in. This will make you have to dust more but bright and airier looks bigger and more inviting.

A potential buyer needs to be able to picture their junk in the garage, their stuff on the counter, on the refrigerator, in the yards and closets.

These are just suggestions and please note that staging your home may not overcome major obstacles to sale but it can certainly help to ease over small ones.

Stay tuned I am still crunching out "Strategies to Sell Your Home" and it should be available by this weekend.

More tips to come.

Good Luck

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Strategies? and Some Tips

That's what it takes to move your home in a market that is clogged with sellers. Many of them panicked.

Of course the less they have applied best business practices the more panicked they are. Interest only loans blah blah blah....

I'm not your typical sky is falling media sensationalist. It's still real estate. The reasons that you got in still apply. The media can not make the price of homes go down no matter how much they try.

Yes they can give the buyers pause by sewing seeds of doubt and insecurity. That is how they get you to watch their ads. Why is it the story you want to hear about is always coming up after the next commercial break. Come on you know this.

So when the MLS is flooded with listings and you want to sell your house and get the maximum profit what you need is a strategy.

Imagine the marketplace as an old town square, the shops all jammed in together. Barkers out front trying to catch your eye so they can tell you why their goods or service is better and so unique.

Realtors market don't they. Some do, some are very proactive. This discussion is neutral on the realtor issue.

My favorite marketer, the guy I just love to read or to listen to is Jay Abraham. You most likely have heard of him. Some of his unique concepts are developed by taking a tactic or strategy from one industry and applying it to another.

This is sort of how the group of guys that I work with started in real estate. We got in around 2002. None of us are Realtors or licenced in the real estate field. We met with plenty though. We learned a lot in a short period of time.

In fact I am about to publish a 'how to' on building custom homes for a profit hopefully before end of November.

Right now I have the segment done on "Strategies to Sell Your House" which I will be offering as an audio book with transcript in PDF by weeks end. We applied any number of disciplines to selling the houses under our charge.

Sometime between now and the end of January I will be tasked with selling 7 custom waterfront homes in the 1 million to 1.5 million dollar range.

Yes we use a realtor at times, but always a good real estate attorney. More importantly we use some aggressive strategies to move these homes.

Here are some Tips:

1. Try offering owner finance. You would be surprised at how many inquiries that you will receive.

Of course if you don't want to play bank there are other ways this can be accomplished. I will explain in detail three ways that you can accomplish this and the advantages in my audio book.

2. Don't worry about what the paper or news is pushing out. Just recently here in Florida they are hammering the sky is falling on the news. Even though they state in their piece that prices are not going down.

In the newspaper they have a doom and gloom headline and then are force to reports incongruous housing numbers.

I read on AOL's news service how property values in Lakeland Florida will be going up %50+ percent over the next five years and Pensacola will be increasing %70+ over the same 5 year period, but the real estate market is crashing. Somebody needs to make up their mind. Seems they have a headline they want to use and don't care if the story underneath matches up.

So do not focus on what they tell you the numbers are. The only thing that matters is what is true for you. Your house if packaged properly can be sold.

What that package is and what strategy or strategies you use is determined by the truth of where your house is located, size, condition and price.

I will be giving some more tip, tricks and techniques as the days go by. I will let you know when my audio book"Strategies to sell your home" is ready.

Looking forward to hearing from you