We walk it together, first
You show me the house. I tell you what I see, including the parts you were hoping I would not bring up. That conversation is more useful than anything I could tell you over the phone.
Selling · Columbia and the Midlands
Before we talk about price, I want to walk it.
Most of what I am worth to you happens before the sign goes in the yard, and none of it involves me telling you what you want to hear.
I have probably already been in a house like yours.
Walking through houses, measuring them and writing down what is actually in them is a separate line of work I do most weeks. It is not the part anyone puts on a billboard, and it is the reason I am not guessing when we sit down about yours.
It also means I know which sales near you are recent enough to still count for anything, and which ones stopped being useful a while ago.
I am not going to make a promise unless it is backed by something.
What that actually looks like
The unglamorous halfI price it from evidence
Not from what the last agent told you, and not from what you need it to be. I will show you what I am working from and you can argue with it.
I book the photographer
Along with the listing, the paperwork, and the scheduling. You do not need to project-manage me.
Showings, and what came back
You hear what people actually said, not a summary built to keep you calm. If three of them walk in and react to the same thing, that is information, and it is worth a great deal more in week two than in week ten.
Offers, and the argument after them
Price is one line on an offer. The repair requests, the timeline, who pays what at closing and how solid the financing behind it actually is are the rest of it, and any one of them can matter more than the number on the front page.
I sit through the inspection
And the eighty small things after it that you would rather not spend your evenings on. This is the part where most of the value is, and it is the part nobody advertises.
Under contract, through to closing
The appraisal, the lender, the attorney and every date hanging off them. This is the stretch where deals actually fall apart, and it is the stretch where you should hear from me most.
You will get a straight answer, including the bad one.
If the house is not ready, I will say so. If the number you have in your head is not the number, I will say that too, and I will show you why rather than asking you to take it on faith.
I would rather lose the listing than win it by agreeing with you. A house priced to make a seller feel good sits there, and then it sits there with a history.
If you are thinking about selling in the next year, call now rather than later.
The useful conversation happens before you list, not after. There is no script on the other end of this and nobody is going to add you to a list.
803.830.9005
Or email justin@carolinayankeerealty.com and I will call you back.