Just Sold - Audobon
Just like my kid’s books we read every night, a story with a Happy Ending is always a fun one to tell. So allow me to tell our story of 3578 Audobon, that closed today!
Our clients purchased this beautiful home in Spring Valley a little over two years ago. Southern California transplants, they needed to purchase relatively quickly, so it was nice to show them a few homes, and have them decide on this property. If memory serves correctly (and it sometimes does), negotiations were pretty smooth, and we ended up getting the purchase done for them quickly, and even got an added pool table in the deal. Because honestly, who wants to move a pool table?
Fast forward to this Spring. My amazing clients, who I keep in touch with, called me up and said it was time to buy a one story home. They also still owned their home in Southern California, so needed to sell that one in order to buy one here, but would not need to sell their Spring Valley home until AFTER they were able to find and buy one here, which was great news. That meant we could fully focus on the purchase here without the stress and distraction of selling the property here first. No issues with showings, or schedules, etc makes my job as a marketeer for the property that much easier.
We knew we had time, and there was no rush, so we were able to see homes occasionally as something came up. They did find one, a beautiful home on a great size lot, not all that far from the current home. Closed in June, my clients were happy!
They were able to move in slowly, and not stress. Then it came time to sell the home they purchased two years ago. We did our normal thing, ran comparable sales and analysis, and discussed our marketing strategy. I always provide a SMALL range of what I think we should list for, and usually our clients like to go with the higher number. Who wouldn’t? Not this time. Our clients listened to where we were, and wanted to sell quickly. They didn’t want a fire sale, but wanted to sell quickly, so we agreed on the lower end of our range! Wonderful. Photos were ordered, and they came out beautifully.
When a home is vacant, as this one was, and you have large rooms, it’s often a discussion on staging. There are two schools of thought on staging, and I’ve never been one to believe that a fully staged home was necessary. However, with technology, we were able to have the best of both worlds in the form of digital staging. And boy does it work. For a little extra money, take a look at what we were able to turn a vacant home into.
Here are the “BEFORE” Pictures
And with a little money and some high technology, they were transformed to these images below…
All was set! We went on the market on a Wednesday evening. By Thursday we had 4 showings, and our first offer came on Friday. While discussing the offer Saturday morning with my clients, I said we may have ONE more coming in this afternoon, so let’s just hold a bit before responding.
Sure enough, right about an hour before the first offer’s response time expired, we got the offer they were looking for. OVER ASKING, 30 day close with a lender we knew and trusted, and on top of the over asking price offer, the Buyers were willing to actually cover some of the SELLERS closing costs. Just in case you were wondering, this almost never happens. Over asking price happens, when we price and market it well, but for them to also cover the sellers closing costs would immediately and positively help my clients bottom line. Because when you’re selling a home, regardless of where it is, it should matter more to you as a seller on what you NET, not what you sell for.
My clients were able to accept the second offer as written, all before our Open House that was scheduled for Sunday, and before the Just Listed cards even hit the Post Office. This is a gigantic win for everyone involved.
As I said, we are closing today, September 5. Home was listed on July 31. So in a span of UNDER 40 days, my clients went from putting the home on the market, to collecting an equity check for MORE than they were expecting when we put the home on the market.
Days on Market was 4. Total time from ON Market to Equity Check was 36.
As I said at the top, some stories do have a Happy Ending!