The Mile High Real Estate Blog is the resource for Denver Metropolitan home buyers and sellers. In addition to articles on various Denver real estate projects, Denver area builders, state of the market addresses, and the like, we will also be providing education related articles and series. The FSBO tutorial is our first such series. We hope you enjoy.

In each of the articles, you’ll learn proof-positive tips on how to sell your own home efficiently. You’ll learn how to implement the most effective and affordable marketing techniques; how to set the right asking price; how to negotiate effectively with buyers; and much more!

Here we go….

Have you been trying to sell your home on your own, without much success? Over the next several weeks this Tutorial series will provide for you an all-in-one help guide on the For Sale By Owner process. Some of the information will be specific to the Denver Metro and surrounding areas. Much of the information will be relevant regardless of where you live. Each part or article will have a well researched package of valuable insight. Below is a brief outline of what to expect during the weeks to come.

Part 1 - Top 10 Tips On Selling Your Home On Your Own

This first article may actually have the greatest impact on your home-selling efforts. We’ll provide a detailed top-ten list of the most critically important tips you must know in order to get your home sold!

Part 2 - Guidelines For Pricing Your Home

In the second article, we’ll help you make sure that your asking price is right where it should be. We’ll help you come up with a balanced sum that will both attract buyer’s interest and ensure that you come out on top! Skeptical? Stay tuned!

Part 3 - Writing An Effective Advertisement

At this point, it’s time to review your advertising efforts. Together, we’ll analyze the various characteristics that comprise an effective ad, and make sure that you’re generating the most interest per dollar spent!

Part 4 - Marketing Your Home For All It’s Worth!

Now that you understand the basic principles of advertising, it’s time to explore your options. In this issue, we will share with you many effective and affordable marketing techniques, and tell you how and where to implement them to the greatest effect. (If you can’t wait for this article, check out www.MileHighFSBO.com for the best FSBO marketing program available for Denver Area homes. FREE advertising, FREE signs, sign riders, and FREE Internet Marketing for Homes in Denver and the surround suburbs)

Part 5 - Preparing Your Home For Selling

As your phone begins to ring, it’s time to make sure that you prepare your home in the most favorable way you can. This article’s e-mail will contain a variety of helpful tips that will help you make sure your home is looking it’s best, without having to do any costly renovation.

Part 6 - Showing Your Home

By now, you have buyers knocking on your door, and you’ve prepped your home in all the right ways. You’ll likely be getting offers already. This article will ensure that you’re prepared to present your home in just the right way, to maximize your sale price. In addition, we will give you some tips on safely showing your home.

Part 7 - Negotiating With Buyers

With all of these offers on the table, do you know which one to choose? Are you comfortable with the negotiating process? Should you hire an attorney? Do you know where to get the right one? The knowledge in this article will equip you with the price-haggling weapons that all of the best real estate agents use! You’ll be guaranteed to meet all of your sale-price expectations.

Part 8 - Closing The Sale

Almost a month into the process, you’ll have a tentative deal already made. Just to make sure that there isn’t anything you’ve forgotten, we will provide for you a checklist summary. As we review with you all of the strategies you’ve implemented up to this point, you’ll be able to close the deal with total confidence.

Part 9 - Using A Professional

In the unlikely event that you’ve reached this point and your home is still on the market, perhaps it’s time to take the next step. Professional real estate agents offer a variety of services that will be able to help you achieve your goal. Worst-case scenario: you will have so much knowledge about the whole home-selling process that even after the agent takes their commission, you’ll still be reasonably close to your sale-price expectations. If you get to this point, we can refer you to agents with proven track records that will provide you full service for a low flat fee or even free. Exciting stuff, stay tuned…

Part 10 - Moving Tips

Well, if you started reading this program at day one, you are on target to close your sale in just a little over a month, but we’re not done yet! As the icing on the cake to this article we’ll provide for you a valuable list of moving tips to ensure that the move to your new home is as painless as possible.

Stay tuned for ‘Part 1 - Top 10 Tips On Selling Your Home On Your Own’…