OVER 60? How to Sell Your Home: The Rules Have Changed!!

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• KA

  @KatiSpaniak · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Thanks for watching! Here are the links I talk about in the video! <br>Watch the HGTV video I talk about in the video here! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KcHI0tXueQ">https://youtu.be/1KcHI0tXueQ</a><br>Watch the Declutter video I mention in the video here! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1_YV3pbc4M">https://youtu.be/t1_YV3pbc4M</a><br>⭐ &nbsp;DOWNLOAD my FREE Seller&apos;s Playbook: <a href="https://bit.ly/FreeSellersPlaybook">https://bit.ly/FreeSellersPlaybook</a><br>⭐ &nbsp;Need an Agent Anywhere in the Country? <a href="https://bit.ly/FindBestAgent">https://bit.ly/FindBestAgent</a><br>⭐ &nbsp;Join my Facebook Group: <a href="https://bit.ly/FBSellersGroup">https://bit.ly/FBSellersGroup</a>

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• KR

  @kristenspencer9751 · 2 years ago

  On the OTHER hand...my sister and husband sold their house in CA. They did new flooring, new counters etc. A few weeks after close, they came by to pick up mail and the new owners were ripping everything out. She was shocked! Happens all the time. So as long as things are in good condition...let the new guys update to their heart&apos;s content!

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• AN

  @angelad2601 · 2 years ago

  I am so tired of buyers complaining about home prices when they expect HGTV ready homes. &nbsp;We are all busy. &nbsp;Expectations are no longer matching reality. &nbsp;It &nbsp;costs money and time to make the home &nbsp;HGTV ready so the seller expects to recoup that money &nbsp;and when the buyer comes back and expects further reductions, instead of negotiating up front, of course the seller &nbsp;gets upset. &nbsp;It&apos;s &nbsp;time for a reality check

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• EL

  @ellenfoster9764 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I followed Katie’s “fake it, make it, take it” advice when selling the house my kids grew up in, built in 1996. &nbsp;It was dated with an original kitchen and bathrooms, with wood cabinets/ vanities. &nbsp;I had the first floor and the primary bedroom and bathrooms painted in sea Pearl- a warm greige. &nbsp;Th3 bedrooms all had carpet which I had steam cleaned. &nbsp;I painted one vanity, cleaned up the kitchen cabinets, and refinished the wood vanities in another bathroom. &nbsp;I did not replace dated floors or the laminate countertops. &nbsp;I made sure it was spotlessly clean, took out most of the furniture, and brought in decor I bought cheap on Amazon after searching for “ modern decor”. &nbsp;My real estate agent had a professional photographer with a drone. &nbsp;It sold in one weekend, with 4 offers more than the asking price. &nbsp;Could we have gotten a bit more? &nbsp;Maybe but the immediate sale was so WORTH it. &nbsp;The lack of stress and reduced ongoing costs made my life so much easier.

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• SE

  @seattlegirl2077 · 1 year ago

  Ask you kids what they want! &nbsp;Of all the things in my parents&apos; basement my daughter wanted was two dowels she and my father made together when she was a little girl. &nbsp;She had such strong memories of that moment and knew right where he kept them for the last dozen years in his workshop. &nbsp;I never would have known and would have tossed them!

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• SA

  @sanfranman12 · 2 years ago

  Nicely done! &nbsp;I’ve bought and sold tens of homes over the past 40 years, including personal residences and investment homes. &nbsp;I’ve never seen advice as level-headed and “appropriate” as what you have offered here. &nbsp;Good work!

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• LI

  @lindahusson4206 · 2 years ago

  I totally agree about the declutter, &nbsp;I had so much stuff and after my husband died &nbsp;my daughter and her husband moved in with me, I asked them too as one of them got very sick, &nbsp;I gave them free reign to decorate the way the way they would like. &nbsp;Well the difference is Amazing! I never thought my home could look this good. &nbsp;Loving it 🩷🩷🩷🩷

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  @tomdownes319 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve rented and flipped a few homes in Pittsburgh area for 30 years. Kati is hitting the bullseye on all topics.<br>No fluff in her videos, straight to point, no B.S.

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• VI

  @vivian9803 · 2 years ago

  Excellent video and I will confirm what you said about loans to retirees. We purchased a condo a year ago and the bank gave us a very hard time with the mortgage process. We are retired and had more than enough in our investment accounts but without an income, we did not check off their rigid requirement boxes. After jumping through one hoop too many, I asked my husband, &quot;Why are we putting ourselves through this? We have the money to pay cash,&quot; and we were done. It was worth it to get the bank nonsense and stress off our backs and also, to save a lot of money on BS fees and interest. No regrets!

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• NI

  @niecek.6473 · 2 years ago (edited)

  We saw the writing on the wall and started cleaning, clearing out, garage sales, donating, painting everything white, &amp; renovating. <br>Then four years later we put our house up and sold in a few weeks-no open house, Realtor priced it right🥰. We fixed everything on their list-it wasn’t too much money because we went through a list of our own before. &nbsp;We moved out with the help of a moving company, donating &amp; large garbage bin, stored furniture, lived with a relative for a month. Bought in a 55+, put offers in on 2 homes, one house met our counter 🎉<br>4 years later-happy! Did it right before spring of 2020! Best decision ever🎉 Took so much stress off us at the age of 62, we retired early after buying a smaller home=smaller bills ❤<br>Sold in the Fall 😁🎃<br>A great Realtor really does make a huge difference!

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• TR

  @Truthtime3359 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Um, your buying a used house. I’m not “updating” it so that it’s new. The heating/cooling, appliances and electrical system will work and be up to code. You want 2024 decorating? Hire a decorator after the purchase to paint all the walls grey, put in fake wood floors and white plastic kitchen cabinets. You don’t get a “personally” decorated used home. I have a three bedroom, three full bath house right outside NYC on a beautiful piece of land in a suburb with an A+ school system. If any of the HGTV crowd are able to afford it, they can HGTV decorate it themselves. I’m busy too.

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• LI

  @lindawilson4625 · 2 years ago

  Great video! &nbsp;<br>The best advice I can give is 1) Once you decide to sell your home it is no longer your home. &nbsp;It&apos;s a house. &nbsp;Take the emotion out. &nbsp;2) Listen to your agent, do what they say, &nbsp;and get out of their way. &nbsp;Let them do their job. &nbsp;Make it easy for them to do what you are paying them to do. &nbsp;If you do those two things the rest will fall into place.

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