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Grand Junction Home Selling Tips & Insights

Welcome to our Grand Junction home selling blog. Here, we share expert tips, strategies, and local market insights to help homeowners sell for more. From staging advice to pricing strategies, our blog gives you the knowledge to maximize your home’s value in Mesa County.

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Home Search Getting You Frustrated?

by Paul Aspelin, REALTOR®

Home Search Getting You Frustrated? When you list your home with a Homes Sold for MORE™ agent, you aren’t only getting a listing specialist unlike the traditional agents out there, you are getting a buyer specialist as well. In a competitive seller’s market, the buyer’s agent you hire to help purchase your next home can […]

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Is that “Top Agent” you’re considering hiring actually a discount broker?

by Paul Aspelin, REALTOR®

When most people think of discount brokers/real estate agents, they picture someone who slashes commission to win a listing. But there’s another kind of discount that’s far more common, and far more costly to home sellers. It’s not commission that gets cut; it’s service. Increasingly so-called “top agents” are running their businesses like high-volume fast-food […]

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Get a Bestimate™ not a Zestimate®

by Paul Aspelin, REALTOR®

Why it’s important to get a Bestimate™ not a Zestimate® for your property When you’re a homeowner, many of life’s major decisions rely on being able to successfully sell your home at an acceptable price. Most times people call a professional to assist them with selling a property after they have made the decision to […]

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Property Value for Retirement Planning

by Paul Aspelin, REALTOR®

3 Examples of Property Value for Retirement Planning 1. We spoke with some seller clients who had just retired and planned to travel the world for a year then buy a new home down south with the proceeds from the sale of their current home. Unfortunately, they believed their home was worth $300,000 more than […]

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How Do You Know What Your Home is Worth? and “The Justifier”

by Paul Aspelin, REALTOR®

How do you know what your home is worth? Truly worth? In today’s market? This is the million-dollar question. Home sellers wish they had a magic eight ball to tell them the truth. First, you must understand there are four potentially different valuations for every home. You have Appraised Value, which is used by banks […]

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Top 5 Things Home Sellers Should Avoid

by Paul Aspelin, REALTOR®

1. Painting the interior of your home all white Painting is easily the most economical update you can do to any home. Numerous sellers I have worked with have hired professional painters to paint the entire interior of their home white before they called me. This was the right idea, but the wrong color. White […]

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