Your home is no doubt the biggest investment you own. Therefore, selling your home must be addressed with skill and planning. Below is a partial list of tasks we do as professionals to sell out clients' homes.

1.   Gather information about your home
2.   Evaluate your home's condition, location, and amenities
3.   Prepare a Market Analysis of your home
4.   Discuss with you similar properties that have sold recently
5.   Discuss with you similar properties that are currently for sale
6.   Arrive at the greatest fair and marketable price possible
7.   Complete listing paperwork
8.   Put a lockbox on to admit other Realtors
9.   Put a "Murney" for sale sign with a "24 Hour Recorded Information" rider in your yard
10. Send listing to Greater Springfield Board of Realtors (GSBOR)
11. Take numerous photos of your home
12. Post photos on GSBOR
13. Present information about your home to other agents at Murney Associate Realtor's weekly marketing meeting
14. Upload information to POSTLETS creating a flyer for Craig's List and 8 syndicated search sites
15. Prepare a "Complimentary Information Package" with information for prospective buyers which includes: Disclosure Statement, Listing Detail, Utilities for past 12 months, Tax Record
16. Place "Complimentary Information Package " in home and keep updated
17. Record information about your home for those who call the 24 Hour Information line
18. Set up a tour for Murney Realtors to view your home
19. Talk to agents who toured your home for any suggestions and/or opinions they might have
20. Report & discuss tour evaluations with you
21. Design flyers and/or brochures of your home
22. Place brochures and/or flyers in your home
23. Prepare a checklist and folder for your listing to make sure all items are completed
24. Prepare newspaper ad for your home that run Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday
25. Prepare HOMES Magazine ad  for your home
Check lockbox to see who has shown your home
26. Follow up with agents who have shown your home
27. Send you a bi-weekly report card telling you how many agents have viewed your home on the internet, how many "public" visits there have been on the internet, how many agents have shown your home, what advertisements have been done, what phone calls we have gotten, and a monthly activity report from HOMESCAPES ®
28. Discuss and schedule open houses
29. Advertise open houses
30. Hold open houses
31. Follow up with those who attend open houses
32. Present and discuss all written offers
33. Negotiate contracts
34. Check to make sure buyers are qualified
35. Open home and be present for inspection
36. Negotiate any needed repairs
37. Help you find repairmen if necessary
38. Check on title work
39. Notify sellers of buyer loan approval
40. Turn in contract and earnest money
41. Turn in change in status to GSBOR
42. Check on appraisal
43. Set up closing
44. Be present for closing transaction
45. Pick up lockbox
46. Pick up sign

For professional service in selling your home, call David Martin & the MARTIN HOUSE TEAM at 417-575-1240.