Task Definition: To seek inexpensive effective ways to sell your home.

1. Selling Your Home Mission Statement: This desktop space provides general information on ways to enhance your home for selling purposes.

2. Task Definition: To seek inexpensive effective ways to sell your home. -How are you going to advertise my home? My husband and I would like to try to sell our house by owner for three months or so until we rely on a realtor. -How can I prepare to show my home? There are a number of repairs we need to fix before we sell. -How much time and money am I willing to invest in fixing up my home? By our calculations, it looks like we can spend $2,500.00 to fix up the house. -How do I determine the right sales price for my home? We aren’t really sure…. But we plan on looking around the county to see what houses are selling for. -Do I understand all the aspects of a real estate transaction, appraisal, title insurance, inspections, liens, deeds, easements and home warranties?I do not understand all the real estate jargon.

3. Information Seeking Strategies • Materials (books, videos, DVDs, manuals, hand-books, etc) Plan on visiting the EVPL • Websites • Banking Professionals Contact our bank rep. Marge Shelhouse • Visual Aids (virtual tours and open house tours) - Family and Friend advice

4. Use of Information • Cost effective ways to fix up your home • Free advice • 24/7 access to most information (websites, virtual tours, advice) - Better your chances of selling your home faster and for a greater profit

5. Synthesis • Instructional guidance combined with a seller’s motivation can get a house ready for the market. • Once a to-do list is created and your mission is carried out, fixing up a house can be a rewarding project. To-Do List • Fix front door screen • Fix step that the dog chewed on • Paint laundry room • Paint bedrooms • Light fixtures for bedrooms • Rent a storage unit and move some of the furniture out of the house • Replace dead shrub out front • Caulk around the tub in the bathroom • Clean the house • Power spray the outside siding • Pull weeds in flower beds

6. Evaluation - Invite friends and family members to tour your home and look for further improvements. - Answer the questions found on the websites to see if you have dotted all your i’s and crossed all your t’s. - Check your financial situation to see if you should upgrade any major problem areas. - Hire an inspector to determine further needs - Review the simple but meaningful buyer’s needs: cleanliness and curb appeal.

7. Use - Apply the useful knowledge found in materials - Practice giving tours of your home with friends and family members -Practice buyer/seller conversations (know the square footage, the year of a new roof, installation of windows, taxes, subdivision guidelines, etc) - Manage information related to your home (selling/buying costs of surrounding homes for sale, mortgage loan rates, blueprints, estimates of monthly bills, etc) - Familiarize yourself with correct terminologies and social demeanors needed when introducing your home.

8. Big 6 Model Desktop Space by Maureen Barton