Questions to answer if you sell it yourself
Forms, showings, and offer review are still yours if you sell without an agent.
Selling without an agent does not remove the forms, the showings, or the offer review. It assigns them to you. Start with the forms. Ask a local real-estate attorney or the closing company which seller A form where you report what you know about the property. Your state decides which forms you sign. your state expects. This site cannot tell you. Write the form names and where to get them. Do that before you advertise, because a missing page is slower to fix after a buyer asks.
Then decide the showing path in sentences you can keep. How does a buyer book a time. Where will you be during the visit. What gets put away first. Set hours you can actually keep for the next few weeks, and write them down. If you cannot be there, write who locks up. A plan you cannot perform is not a plan. Share the hours before the first call so you are not inventing them while someone is in the driveway.
Plan the offer path before the first contract arrives. Who receives it. Who reads it with you. How quickly you will answer. Have an attorney or an agent review the first contract before you sign it, and ask what that review costs before you need it at night. The fee is whatever they quote you. Put the phone number on the same card as the showing hours. A contract you sign because you did not know who to call is an expensive way to save a call.
Read those three answers out loud: forms, showings, offer review. If one of them is still someone will handle it, stop and name the person. You can still hire help for a single job. You should not start showings with the offer path blank. The questions are the work. Answering them on paper is how you find out whether you are ready to sell it yourself.
What to do
- Ask a closing company or attorney which seller forms apply, and write the list.
- Write showing hours you can keep, and who locks up.
- Name who receives the first contract and who reads it with you.
- Have an attorney or agent review that contract before you sign it.