For Home Sellers
Selling your home shouldn't be a stressful ordeal. Making the smart move of choosing a HowesTeam, REALTOR® is your first step to ensuring that your investment in your home pays off. Our services and experience allow you to focus on your move while We manage your home sale from our initial consultation to the closing, and beyond. We pride ourselves on repeat business and hope you'll come to understand why.
What We will do for you
Recent Home Sales
Getting the highest price
Closing Costs
- Complete a comparative market analysis that will compare your home's value to that of your neighbors that have sold and are on the market.
- Compile a comprehensive plan detailing all the efforts we will employ to sell your home, including Internet with such sites as HowesTeam.com, MountainHomesColorado.com, Realtor.com, Homes.com and others. Also specific promotions we use in local and state wide print media.
- Present your home to as many qualified buyers as possible getting your home maximum exposure.
- Help you stage your home and generate curb appeal to ensure you get the highest price.
- Assist with obtaining offers and help you in negotiating the best deal as smoothly as possible.
- Help you find your next home and answer all of your questions about the local market area, including schools, neighborhoods, the local economy, and more.
- Prepare a preliminary "Net Proceeds" sheet showing the approximate net funds to you upon sale.
What are homes selling for on your street? Use HomeRadar.com to find out what neighborhood homes are selling for, free of charge, or choose a more detailed analysis of the value of your home.
Getting the Highest Price for Your Home
Curb appeal is key and could make a difference whether people stop and take a flyer, or drive right by. Here are a few tips to increase the curb appeal of your home. Staging your home is important. Many buyers will stay in your home longer if it's staged appropriately. We have compiled some ideas to present your home in the most effective manner.
- Title insurance fees depend on the sales price of the home.
- Home Owner Associations may have necessary documents and fees for the transfer of your property.
- Broker's commission is a full-service fee and will cost anywhere between 5% to 7%.
- Local property transfer tax, any transfer tax, and state capital gains or income tax are the charges that you'll pay for the privilege of selling your home. Credit to the buyer of unpaid real estate taxes for the prior or current year are variable and depend on when you close and when your taxes are due.
- FHA fees and costs are all fees are now negotiable between an FHA buyer and seller.
- Home inspections fees are in some circumstances paid for by the seller, but typically by the Buyer and can include pest, radon, well, septic, roof and other inspections.
- Miscellaneous fees can accrue from correcting problems noticed during the home inspection.
Find out how much your closing costs could be. 
