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Selling Your Orange County Home
Congratulations! You've decided
to sell your home. It's a big step. It's also a pain: determining a price, making necessary repairs,
keeping the house immaculate for the hordes of buyers who will be coming through, negotiating, finding
a new place to live, and, finally, moving.
Where to begin? Are you sure you want to move? You are? O.K., then the first step is finding out
what your house is worth in today's market. Forget your assessed value. In California, with Prop.
13, assessed value and market value have no relationship to each other anymore.
There are three methods to determine your homes value. First, go to the County Assessor's office
and pour through their records looking for homes in your area similar to your own, then compare.
This takes some time.
Second, pay a fee and get a report from a data company, like DataQuick, which collect the data
from the County Recorder's and/or Assessor's office and put it into their computers. The fees are
nominal: $9.95down from $19.95 last year; but, the data may be suspect and it is raw data.
The data may be suspect for several reasons. If the data collection company uses the County Recorder's
data, the data itself may have been falsely submitted. Information on the price of homes is based
on tax stamps. People have been known to hide the stamps so no one else can find out, or, they buy
a higher amount of stamps thereby showing a higher recorded price for the property. The county assessor's
office is immune from this tampering. Ask the data collection company which source they use for
their reports.
Another reason the data may be suspect is simple transcription errors.
The third method of finding your home's current market value is
FREE!
Just call a local agent. The question is which agent to call? Aye, there's the rub. A poor agent
will cost you money and time.
Call us and we'll provide you an accurate, up-to-date report on the current market-value of your
home. The main advantage of using a good local agent over the data companies is we know the properties
in question. We can, usually, tell you why a home sold for the price it did; what had to be done
to the house to sell it; what was left undone and thereby affected the priceall the little nuances
that come in handy when the negotiating begins.
Here is our form for your personalized
market analysis. Please provide as much information as possible and press the What's it
worth? button at the end. We will do our research and contact you shortly.
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