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A Unique Home Selling Opportunity

By: Hal James

It is a buyers’ market, so you simply can’t sell your home, right? Wrong. You just need to give some effort and take advantage of opportunities. As the weather warms up, your community may give you one if you pay attention.

It is important to remember that once you decide to sell a home, it becomes a product. Just like a store selling clothing, you must treat it as a product. The best example in this case is, believe it or not, a shopping mall. Yes, a mall!

This store placement strategy is all about something known as traffic. You and I are the traffic. We might be driving by on a busy road or we might be walking around in a mall. The point is we are going to see that store continually and may go in to buy something.

So, what does this have to do with selling your home? Yes, you would like to be on a lot that has tons of traffic walking and driving by, but most homes aren’t situated as such. A couple weekends a year, however, this may change.

The days are getting longer and warmer. Spring is here and summer is around the corner. With warmer and longer days comes activity. If you are a little lucky, this will present you with a very unique opportunity to get your home in front of a lot of people.

People are starting to make use of their weekends. As the weather continues to warm up, entire neighborhoods are waking up. Many, in fact, are holding events to celebrate it. These may be fairs, concerts, large picnics or whatever. And here lays opportunity.

Practically every community has an event of some sort every month or so when it is warm. Well, this event means people will be congregating in your area. More importantly, they will be walking around, even if it is just from their parking spot.

As people walk around, you want to get in front of them. The best approach is to hold an open house and market it with plenty of signs. Many people will come in. For those that do not, put a sign with brochures next to the road so they can grab them.

This may sound embarrassing or dubious, but it works. I guarantee you will get more interest in your home during the one or two day event than from all your other marketing efforts. The more buyers that look at your home, the sooner it will be sold.

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